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We are pleased to announce that David Biedenbender is the winner of the 2024 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Award for his composition River of Time (Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble).  Please click here to read the rest of this article....read more ->

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Play On, From the Bayou to the White House by Colonel John R. Bourgeois is now available. As General Krulak states “this is a must read.” Click here to see the cover.The book is available unsigned via Amazon Signed copies can be purchase at: R. H. Ballard Shop & Gallery307 Main StWashington, VA 22747Telephone: (540) 675-1411Website: https://www.rhballard.com/Founded in 1798, the “President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band is the Nation’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization....read more ->

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School Band Directors may be interested in an ABA position paper that was generated by the ABA School Bands Task Force, Bill Gora — Chair, and adopted at the 2006 ABA convention....read more ->