OCTOBER 8, 2024
Veterans
Y o u r m u s i c i s w a i t i n g c o m e t o E r n i e
W i l l i a m s o n M u s i c a n d l e t y o u r s o u n d
b r e a k f r e e !
I n s t r u m e n t s , l e s s o n s , r e p a i r s , a n d m o r e .
L i m i t o n e p e r c u s t o m e r . N o m i n i m u m p u r c h a s e . N o c a s h b a c k .
Welcome to Veterans Memorial Stadium for the Annual Dalton Defender Days Marching Band Festival. We are honored to welcome back, Dr. Frank Tracz, Kansas State University Band Director, first time welcome to Dr. Jobey Wilson, Director of Music in the Pittsburg State University Department of Music, and have Gary McCarty, owner/ operator of McCarty Band services, as our adjudicators for this year.
The 2024 Red Raven Athletic Band and Drumline are growing strong! Again, we welcome you to the Veterans Memorial Stadium for the Dalton Defender Days Marching Band Festival.
Thank you for your continued support of CCC and Red Raven Bands. We hope you will enjoy the show and GO RAVENS!
Dr. David Wiggins
Coffeyville Community College Director of Music
DR. FRANK TRACZ is Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Kansas State University. He earned his B.M.E. from The Ohio State University, the M.M. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He has public school teaching experience in Wisconsin and Ohio and has also served as Assistant Director of bands at Syracuse University and Director of bands at Morehead State University. Dr. Tracz has served as an adjudicator, clinician, speaker in various schools and conferences and has conducted All-State and Honor bands across the United States as well as in Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand.
He has also directly or indirectly raised over 5 million dollars for the construction of the West Stadium Band Hall.
Dr. Tracz is married to Geralyn, and has three daughters, Jessica Tracz Kelly, Kelley Tracz, and Carly Tracz Morris, and one grandson, Caden Tracz Kelly!
DR. JOBEY WILSON is an Assistant Professor of Music in the Pittsburg State University Department of Music, where he Directs the Pride of the Plains Marching Band, Pep Bands, and teaches applied Tuba, Euphonium, Trombone, and Brass Chamber Music. Dr. Wilson’s D.M.A. is from Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A., M.M. New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts, U.S.A., B.M. University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
A Boston freelance musician for 24 years, Dr. Wilson is Principal Tuba of the New Bedford, Lexington, and Atlantic Symphony Orchestras, and the Portland Brass Quintet. He is a solo recording artist for PARMA Recordings and a clinician for the Eastman Music Company. Wilson was a founding member of the Triton Brass Quintet which won silver medals at the 2003 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition and the 2005 Lyon (France) International Chamber Music Competition. He is often called to perform with groups such as the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and many others. Wilson served as Director of Athletic Bands at Bentley University and also taught at Boston College, the University of Southern Maine, and UMASSBoston. After teaching numerous summers at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar, and Boston Youth Symphony Camp, he founded the Camp Jobey Summer Brass Institutes in 2012 www.campjobeybrass.com.
GARY McCARTY spent his high school years marching in Drum & Bugle Corps in Illinois. After college, where he was Drumline Leader for the Marching Jayhawks, he was a school Band Director for 31 years in Kansas and Missouri, and later worked for several years as the school music representative for a music store in Emporia, KS. While in Emporia, he was the Director of the Emporia Municipal Band for 23 years. Active in the Kansas Bandmasters Association and Kansas Music Educators Association, he held several offices. Since “retiring” to Bella Vista, Arkansas, he is the owner/operator of McCarty Band Services and writes drill for several HS marching bands in Kansas and Missouri, including Shawnee Mission West, Paola, Tonganoxie, and Independence, KS high schools.
8:30AM Blue Squadron Marching Band
Altoona-Midway
Director: Phillip Becker
2024 Marching Show: Star Spangled Banner
9:00AM The Pride of Château Wildcat Band
Chouteau, OK
Directors: Trevor Berger
Drum Major: Zoe Decker
2023 Marching Show: Valhalla
9:30 AM The Marching Ironmen
Nowata, OK
Director: Jennifer Prince
Drum Major: Laura Bailey
2024 Marching Show: Journey. Musical selections include Anyway You Want It, Separate Ways, Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin and Don’t Stop Believin’
10:00 AM The Beat of the Cougars
Oklahoma Union, Ok
Director: Eric Bates
2024 Marching Show: ‘Tis the Season
11:00 AM The Golden Tornado Marching Band
Coffeyville, KS
Director: Thomas Mackiewicz
Drum Major: Aubrey Battaglear
2024 Marching Show: The Night Is Young, Dance With Me! (Music: Can’t Stop The Feeling, I Wanna Dance, After The Love Has Gone, Dancing Queen, Shut Up and Dance
11:30 AM Ool0gha Stallion Battalion Marching Band
Oologah, OK
Director: Jon Matthews
Drum Majors: Arienah Williams & Eli McElroy
2024 Marching Show: Ghost Ship
12:00 PM Indy Bulldog Marching Band
Independence, KS
Director: Erin Shelton
Drum Majors: Lexi Brown-Head drum major; Violet Robins-Asst Drum Major; Brynlee Taylor-Asst. Drum Major
2024 Marching Show: “Treats and Tricks!”
1:00 PM Blue Pride Band Vinita, OK
Director: Matt Young
Drum Majors: Alex Goad
2024 Marching Show: The Music of Shrek: Accidentally In Love, Funkytown, All Star, I’m A Believer
1:30 PM The Dewey “Big Red” Pride
Dewey, OK
Directors: Erin Shelton and Matt Carter
Color Guard: Mr. Denton Bodine
Drum Majors: Miss Avery Lair
2024 Marching Show: 007
2:00 PM The Pup Band
Caney, KS
Director: Jami Messner
Drum Major: Ava Allan
2024 Marching Show: Grunge Rock
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR EVENT
TEAM PHOTOS, SCHOOL INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS AND MORE! PHOTOS WILL BE UPLOADED 10.11.23 by 5pm
Tom Irwin | Guitar, Harmonica, Songwriter
NO PERFORMANCE
Claudia Gibson | Austin-based, Originals, Rock, Celtic, Soul music
Brian Wendling | Kansas City's best! Juggling, Comedy
Ruth Wyand | Americana, Blues, Jazz singer
Lee Murdock | Irish pub songs and Irish American ballads
Jan Seides | Austin Songwriter with Show Tunes in the mix
Dan and Faith Senie | Boston/New England Original Songs Duo
Keith Rea | Singer, Songwriter with a good story to tell
Kerry Grombacher | New Orleans-based Folk & Western Music
Ken Waldman | Alaska's Fiddling Poet
Beth Watts Nelson | Kansas City guitar, banjo, with guest Brandon Day
Jackson Grim | Asheville NC Country, Bluegrass, OldTimey & Original music
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Thank you to all the bands, directors, teachers and staff that have traveled to the Dalton Defender Days Marching Band Festival. Thank you to all the CCC staff that has helped make this day possible.
Dr. Marlon Thornburg
Dr. Aron Potter
CCC Marketing
CCC Maintenance
Chris Auten
CCC Women’s Soccer
William Cooper
Emelia Shaw
CCC Athletic Band
CCC Drumline
Dora Morris
Felicia Banks
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