Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Marching music for the New Jersey, D.C., Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota primaries

As I promised in Marching music for the Kentucky and Oregon primaries — Oregon Crusaders and marching bands then repeated yesterday and this morning, "I plan on the final episode returning on June 4, 2024 for primaries in the District of Columbia, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota." I begin today's music to listen while waiting for results in New Jersey with Jersey Surf | #DCI2023 | Express Yourself | Born This Way - Lady Gaga from Drum Corps International (DCI).

Camden County, New Jersey's Jersey Surf perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2023 production, "Express Yourself," during the 2023 DCI World Championships hosted August 10-12 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Camden County, NJ | 23rd Place | 75.488
By coincidence, this happened to be a great selection for Pride Month.

Normally, I'd continue with the Garden State's other DCI corps, the Raiders, but New Jersey is such a great state for all-age corps that I'm embedding 2022 DCA World Championships | Hawthorne Caballeros (World Class) - Timeless from Drum Corps Associates (DCA) next. Don't worry, I'll get to the Raiders.

Presenting selected clips from their 2022 Production "Timeless" in partnership with Box5 Media.
Fairy tales and tradition!

I'm continuing with the next official clip of a DCA corps, 2022 Fusion Core Drum & Bugle Corps - "Royals" | Drum Corps Associates.

Featuring our 2022 DCA Class A Champion, Fusion Core, presenting their program ""Royals, Competing for the Crown".
They sound great for only 16 brass!

Now for the first unofficial upload, NOT The Bushwackers World Championship Finals 2022, recorded and uploaded by John Horan.


I like the Canyon radio theme, which integrated the announcer well into the program.

Since readers have requested that I include the Caballeros Alumni in previous posts, I'm sharing Caballeros Alumni Corps @ The 2023 Plymouth Show - BFDTV. Never say I don't pay attention to reader requests!

The Caballeros perform at the 2023 Plymouth Show part of the Americas Hometown Thanksgiving Celebrations in Plymouth Ma.
I count this as a semi-official upload. Also, the sound of late 20th Century drum corps lives on!

I wrote above that I would get to the Raiders, so here is 31st Raiders 2023 from Drum Corps Library.


I enjoyed this show concept and found the performance fun!

Since this is an unofficial upload, it may not last long, so enjoy it while it lasts. I just hope the account persists until Canada Day so that I can use the videos of Les Stentors for this year's drum corps Canada Day to begin July.

I close out the New Jersey portion of today's program with Rutgers Football's The #Rutgers University Marching Band performing in the 2023 #Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade!.


Consider this the follow-up to Local news coverage of marching bands in the 2023 Macy's Parade for Thanksgiving.

Follow over the jump for the marching bands from the District of Columbia and the rest of today's primary states, including an encore from the Rutgers band.

Representing Washington, D.C., I'm sharing Kamala Harris's alma mater, Howard University Halftime Show vs NCCU 2023 by Smash Time Productions.


"It's halftime, not nap time!" I think the band succeeded in keeping the spectators awake and energized.

The first primary state moving west instead of in alphabetical order is South Dakota, which just happens to have a marching band that I covered in News coverage of marching bands in the 2022 Macy's Parade for Thanksgiving, SDSU Macys Parade 2022.

Connor and the SDSU Pride of the Dakota's marching band perform in the 2022 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
It looks like the band had as much fun performing as they did playing tourist in the Big Apple!

Next, marching bands from two states I don't seem to have covered during the past two election cycles, beginning with 2023 Dec 2 ABBA Halftime by MSU (Montana State University) Spirit of the West.


Moving from dance-pop to rock, here's the final winner of the Metallica marching band contest, ENMU GSMB - Music of Metallica (Official Video), the winners of the Division II/III class.

Music of Metallica - For Whom The Band Tolls (Official Video)
Eastern New Mexico University - Portales, New Mexico
Greyhound Sound Marching Band
Dustin Seifert, Sidney Shuler, & Emily Salgado - directors

ENMU vs. WTAMU "Wagon Wheel Rivalry" Halftime Show
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Greyhound Stadium
Portales, New Mexico

(Video Production - KENW, Portales, New Mexico - Allan Crawford, producer & director)
I can see and hear why the band won. They combined enough musical and visual appeal for the judges to place them in finals, enough spectacle to get the fans to vote for them, and enough professional cinematography and editing to highlight both. Good luck in this year's contest, should they enter it!

I close with the promised encore, Lucas Oil Stadium : Rutgers Marching Scarlet Knights (2021) from Azling Music.

MY performance at Lucas Oil Stadium a few years ago. I am not 100% sure I am allowed to post this but now that some time has passed I am sure it will be fine!
I hope so. Just the same, thank you. I couldn't resist a good space show!

Thus concludes this series for another election cycle. I hope my readers enjoyed it as much as I did. Now, stay tuned for World Environment Day.

Previous marching music for 2024 primaries and caucuses posts.
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