3 October Mid-South bands to participate in Tomahawk Marching Band Championship at ICC October 3, 2023 By Thomas, Donna S. General 0 Bands from across the Mid-South will participate in Itawamba Community College’s Tomahawk Marching Band Championship, Oct. 14, at Eaton Field/Butch Lambert Stadium at the Fulton Campus. Competition will begin at 10:15 a.m. The event will provide an opportunity for bands across the Mid-South to perform in both a competitive and educational environment. Adjudicators from across the nation will critique bands, color guard and percussion with the same caption-based criteria used in the MHSAA State Marching Band Championships, according to ICC All-American Band Director Ryan Todd. Among the bands participating include Baldwyn High School, Booneville High School, Bruce High School, Calhoun City High School, Center Hill High School, DeSoto Central High School, East Webster High School, Eupora High School, Hamilton High School, Hatley High School, Hoover (Ala.) High School, Horn Lake High School, Lafayette High School, Mantachie High School, Nettleton High School, North Pontotoc High School, Northpoint Christian School, Olive Branch High School, Pontotoc High School, Ripley High School, Saltillo High School, Smithville High School, South Pontotoc High School and Tupelo High School. The Itawamba Community College All-American Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Admission prices include $10 at the ticket booth; $5 for military; and free for ages 5 and under. Concessions are also available. Related Articles ICC to host Tomahawk Marching Band Competition Bands across the Mid-South will participate in Itawamba Community College’s Tomahawk Marching Band Championship, Oct. 19, at Eaton Field/Butch Lambert Stadium at the Fulton Campus. School classifications 1A-2A will begin at 10:45 a.m. with awards at 2 p.m., and 4A-5A will begin at 3 p.m. with awards at 8:30 p.m. Bands will perform in both a competitive and educational environment. Adjudicators from across the nation will critique bands, color guard and percussion with the same caption-based criteria used in the MHSAA State Marching Band Championships. Adjudication captions will include General Effect, Music Performance, Ensemble Visual Performance, Ensemble General Effect, Visual Music Performance, Individual Visual Performance and Individual Color Guard Percussion. Bands that are participating include Hamilton, Smithville, Mantachie, Bruce, East Webster, Eupora, Booneville, Amory, Hatley, Aberdeen, Nettleton, Kosciusko, Caledonia, North Pontotoc, South Pontotoc, Itawamba, Ripley, Pontotoc, New Albany, Saltillo, Columbus, New Hope, Lafayette, Oxford, Olive Branch, Lewisburg and Tupelo as well as a performance by the Itawamba Community College All-American Band. Mississippi Intercollegiate Honor Band Four members of the Itawamba Community College All-American Band will participate in the first Mississippi Intercollegiate Honor Band, Mar. 23-25, at Hinds Community College. They include Yen Nguyen of Amory (flute), Karli Huddleston of Saltillo (flute), Justin Merriman of Houston (clarinet) and Brett Causey of Clinton (alto saxophone). In addition, Macy Gibson of Pontotoc (flute) was selected as first alternate. Auditions were open to all two- and four-year college band students (freshman through senior level) regardless of major. The clinician will be emeritus professor Ray Cramer from Indiana University Bloomington. He is president of the Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra convention with more than 14,000 attendees representing 28 countries and was recently named president of the American Bandmasters Association. He is the past president of the College Band Directors National Association and the Indiana Bandmasters Association. Cramer is in demand internationally as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator, and he is a regular guest conductor of the Musashino Academy of Music Wind Ensemble in Tokyo. All-American Band auditions The Itawamba Community College All-American Band has scheduled auditions for Apr. 13 at the Fulton Campus. Locations and times include Drum Major (W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center), 2 p.m.; Color Guard (Fitness Center gym) and Indianettes (W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center), both at 3:30 p.m. Drum major auditions will include salute, two-to-three minutes of routine demonstrating drum major abilities, marching ability, vocal commands and conducting various time signatures. Those who audition for color guard must demonstrate basic maneuvers on equipment (spins, tosses, etc.), marching ability and the ability to learn and perform a short flag routine taught at the audition. Participants must bring their own flag. Indianette participants must demonstrate flexibility (splits, kicks, etc.) and the ability to learn and perform a short routine taught at the audition. Instrumentalist auditions, which are by appointment only, may be scheduled by contacting All-American Band director Ryan Todd at (662) 862-8305 or rotodd@iccms.edu. For more information about all auditions, contact Ryan Todd. New faculty, staff participate in ICC employee orientation Several area residents participated in new employee orientation at Itawamba Community College recently. They include Joey Bowen of Saltillo, janitorial supervisor; Sharon Clemmer of Tupelo, administrative assistant, dean of economic and community services; Whitney Crawford of Houston, residence hall director; Tami Doss of Tupelo, resource referral associate; Wesley Foster of Mooreville, HVAC maintenance; Dylan Hart of Fulton, residence hall director; Grant Kimberlin of Olive Branch, assistant football coach; Rick Lawson of Booneville, assistant softball coach; Emily Lay of Smithville, child development technician; Mallory Pennington of Pontotoc, health information instructor; Taylor Pierce of Tupelo, administrative assistant, health sciences; Donald L. Pounders of Saltillo, sociology instructor; David W. Rakestraw of Blue Springs, history/geography instructor; Caleb Ramey of Red Bay, Ala., TIS help desk specialist; Bronzen Smith of Tupelo, residence hall director; Kaitlyn Stanfield of Red Bay, Ala., residence hall director; Kelli Wallace of Mantachie, child development center instructor; Rob Wilkinson of Fulton, grounds maintenance; Rodney Williams of Brandon, residence hall director; and Ruth Ann Williams of Mantachie, administrative assistant, nursing. Bowen is retired from the ... Registration underway for ICC Summer Band Camp Registration is under way for the 2021 Itawamba Community College Summer Band Camp, which will be June 20-25. The camp is designed for those interested in furthering their music education, strengthening their leadership skills and creating lifelong friendships, according to director Ryan Todd. Since 1981, the camp has hosted more than 16,000 students from all over the United States. It is regarded as one of the finest summer band camps in the Mid-South. Instruction includes general courses for all campers, drum majors, color guard and percussion. The registration deadline is May 15. For more information, call (662) 862-8406 or email bandcamp@iccms.edu. ICC's Swanson participates in NITARP Itawamba Community College astronomy instructor Bob Swanson of Tupelo was among more than 30 participants from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program who attended the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society from Jan. 6-10 in Seattle, Wash. He is the first Mississippi educator to participate in NITARP. For more than a decade, NITARP has partnered small groups of educators with a research astronomer for original, year-long research projects. At the AAS meeting, the educators from the 2018 class, along with some of their students, presented the results of their work over the past year. As part of NITARP’s 2019 class, Swanson will be teamed with three other educators from Iowa, Kansas and Massachusetts, as well as selected students, to work with astrophysicist Dr. Luisa Rebull of Caltech. They will present their research in detecting star-forming regions in the Lagoon Nebula, using archived data from the Kepler Space Telescope, at the 2020 AAS winter meeting to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii. “This NITARP opportunity allows me to directly involve a student, Jaydin Walthers ... Comments are closed.