Indoor percussion groups perform throughout winter season
By midwinter, football season and marching band season have wrapped up, and many extracurricular activities are settling down at area schools.
But for student musicians involved with indoor percussion groups, the music doesn’t stop.
The musical activity — which brings together choreography, marching band drill skills and drumline and percussion instrumentation — typically runs from November to April, in between the marching band and football seasons and spring marching band activities.
Students work together and collaborate with directors and teachers to put together performance shows and compete at local and national competitions.
“The easiest way I refer to it is, I kind of say it as a joke, but it’s ‘drums in a gym,’” said Dave Campbell, director of Nomad Indoor Drumline, an independent competitive indoor drumline based in Lyndora. “It’s all the elements of a high school marching band percussion section brought inside, and features a theme that is told through visual representation and music.”
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