East Tennessee School Band & Orchestra Association

2025 Trojan Drum Major Academy.
The academy will be held on Saturday, May 31st, 2025 from 9:00am-4:30pm at Soddy Daisy HS in the Band Room. Our feature clinician is Mr. Bobby Lambert, the director of the Music for All Summer Symposium Drum Major Track and Director of Bands at Wando HS in South Carolina. This is open to Drum Majors of all ability levels. The cost of the clinic is $25 per student. This is a great opportunity for our drum majors in the area to work with one of the best in the business. We hope that your students will make plans to attend. Registration closes on May 30. If you have any further questions, please contact me at [email protected]

The 2024-2025 ETSBOA Student Teacher Scholarship application is open!! Please share with any East TN students doing their student teaching Fall 2024 or Spring 2025.

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Our judges are hard at work here at the upper area concert performance assessment! Only a few bands remain. Great performances so far!!

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"I consider a lot of my growth as a player and as a person happened learning the saxophone: being coached by conductors and teachers, reading sheet music, and understanding how to practice by repeating the same thing over and over again and you see how much easier the song becomes. If you want to see how very cut-and-dry, how practice can cause you to improve, play an instrument. There's not going to be anything more cut and dry. The first time you play an instrument, you're going to be pretty freaking bad. You'll get better pretty quick just by practicing. The value of practice and the value of putting in extra time, all of that was taught from music."

Super Bowl champion and future Hall of Famer Jason Kelce

2024 All-State East Jazz Clinic - Band led by Chris McCormick, Tennessee Tech University. Featuring Artist-in-Residence Jamey Simmons, MTSU

2024 All-State East Jazz Clinic - Band led by Dr. Jeff Phillips, Belmont University. Featuring Artist-in-Residence Jamey Simmons, MTSU

2024 All-State East Jazz Clinic - Band led by Isaac Doty, Walker Valley HS. Featuring Artist-in-Residence Jamey Simmons, MTSU

2024 All-State East Jazz Clinic participants hard at work on what is going to be a fantastic concert tonight!!

GREAT JOB by the ETSBOA members of the The Band Directors Marching Band at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade today!!

Attention Percussionist! Be sure to join Percussive Arts Society at Tennessee Tech on April 29th for their 2023 day of percussion! Info and registration is attached!

2022 All-State East 11/12 Blue Band conductor, Dr. Rodney Dorsey, Chair, Department of Bands, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music