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MARCHING WOLVES
NEWS
HEADLINES: 2006
- NSU Marching Wolves in
Search of Pearl Harbor Veterans
see details
- All Star Marching Band Camp Held in
Sioux Falls
see details
- NSU Marching Wolves Step Off in Pierre
Parade
Band Gears Up for Trip to Hawaii in November
see details
- Sunday, August 27 Optional pep
rally with football team. Come meet the
players and coaches and play the fight song.
Meet at JFAC at 7:00 PM go over at 7:30. A
great chance to build unity with our team
and NSU.
- Saturday, September 16 Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Dedication Parade and
Ceremony - Pierre. Over 100,000 people are
expected for this event including all three
university bands and approximately thirty
high school bands. This is a historic event
in the history of South Dakota and we are
honored to be able to participate!
- Friday, October 27 Third Annual
Indoor Marching Concert in the Barnett
Center. Ticket sales will used as an
individual account fundraiser for our trip
to Hawaii. We will build on our indoor
concert success from the last 2 seasons.
- November 20-26 Trip to Honolulu
to perform at the Wakiki Holiday Parade in
commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the
attack on Pearl Harbor. There is a lot to do
between now and then please read below.
OLDER NEWS:
- MARCHING WOLVES TO PRESENT INDOOR
CONCERT NOV. 3, 2005
[see
details]
- MARCHING WOLVES MARCH IN "BIG SIOUX
REVIEW"
(ABERDEEN, SD) The Northern State University
Marching Wolves have been invited to put on
an exhibition for participating high school
marching bands in the sixth annual “Big
Sioux Review” this Saturday October 6 at
Brandon Valley High School. High school
bands from South Dakota, Minnesota, and
Nebraska are scheduled to participate in the
competition.
“We are extremely honored to be invited to
perform for the bands participating at this
year’s competition.” said Boyd Perkins,
director of the NSU Marching Wolves. “This
will give the NSU marching band another
venue to showcase not only their talents,
but also the camaraderie and opportunities
available to students interested in
attending NSU.”
The NSU Marching Wolves are scheduled to
perform at 2:30 p.m.
- THE NSU MARCHING WOLVES ANNOUNCE TRIP
TO HAWAII IN 2006
The NSU Marching Wolves will represent South
Dakota at the 2006 commemoration of the 65th
anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
in Honolulu, Hawaii November 20-26, 2006.
Following their appearance at the 2005
Presidential Inaugural Parade, The NSU
Marching Wolves were invited to participate
in the 2006 Waikiki Holiday Parade, which is
dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the
bombing of Pearl Harbor. Each band will
bring a Pearl Harbor survivor from its
respective state who will ride in a
convertible in the parade as well as take
part in the memorial ceremonies during the
week. In addition, each band will represent
a ship that was sunk in the attack and
perform a memorial concert at the battleship
Missouri museum.
The NSU Marching Wolves will do a statewide
search for a survivor in Fall 2005.
The organizers of the parade feel this will
be the last time the commemoration will be
able to include actual survivors from the
mainland as most of the survivors are now
85+ years old.
The invitation holds historical significance
to the NSU Marching Wolves as the band will
be commemorating its own 65th anniversary.
The NSU Marching Wolves organization was
founded by Harvey Moen in Fall 1941 just
three months before Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Due in part to its World War II roots, the
band has begun to take special interest in
recent years to honor those who have served
our country both in the past and currently.
Students will fundraise to pay costs.
THE NSU MARCHING WOLVES ANNOUNCE 2005
DRUM MAJOR
The Marching Wolves will be led on the field
in 2005 by sophomore music education major
Jody Coburn. A proven high school standout,
Ms Coburn is a 2004 graduate of Sioux Falls
Washington High School where she served as
drum major for the Warrior Marching Band and
was academically ranked number one in a
class of over four hundred students. Coburn
is a South Dakota All-State Jazz saxophonist
and has served in leadership roles as a
saxophonist with the Sioux Falls Washington
Warrior Marching Band. In addition, she has
mentored younger students in marching basics
and musicianship at Patrick Henry Middle
School for both the Sioux Falls Lincoln and
Sioux Falls Washington marching band
programs. She is currently on the marching
band staff at Sioux Falls Washington where
her responsibilities include teaching
marching drill, maintaining morale, and
teaching marching fundamentals. Coburn lists
two major goals for in 2005 for the
nationally recognized NSU Marching Wolves:
" A major goal for me is always having
awesome marching basics....I also would like
to see the band sound more symphonic and
have more terraced dynamics."
- THE NSU MARCHING WOLVES SELECTED AS
LONE SOUTH DAKOTA REPRESENTATIVE IN 2005
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL PARADE IN WASHINGTON
D.C .
[see
details]
- THE NSU MARCHING WOLVES HONOR
SOLDIERS IN 2004
In order to honor the brave men and women
who have served and are currently serving
our country, at home and abroad, and to
remember all fallen heroes, the band will be
wearing yellow ribbons. In addition, the
band is also wearing commemorative 9-11 pins
in remembrance of those who lost their lives
on 9/11/2001.
- THE NSU MARCHING WOLVES HONOR KOREAN
WAR VETERANS AT STATE CAPITAL IN 2004
Along with 38 other collegiate and high
school bands, the NSU Marching Wolves
recently traveled to Pierre to participate
in the Korean War Veterans Memorial
Dedication and Parade.
- NSU MARCHING WOLVES MARCH IN
METRODOME IN 2004
The NSU Marching Wolves represented NSU at
the November 6, 2004 game vs Southwest State
University at the Metrodome in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The band had an enormous impact
on the gameday atmosphere and drew much
praise from fans and coaches.
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