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Chapter brothers perform in drum corps around the country
By Joe Raymond

Five brothers of the Theta Upsilon chapter are spending their summer traveling the country in competition, helping to do their part in the advancement of music in America.  Brothers Joe Raymond, Christopher Sparks, Travis Hall, and Brad Ballard are performing members of drum and bugle corps.  Brothers Ballard and Hall are first year members of Music City Legend, an all-age corps based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Brother Sparks is a first year member of Music City, an open class corps from Nashville, Tennessee.  Brother Raymond is currently in his fifth season of world class competition and third as the drum major of the Blue Stars Drum & Bugle corps, a world class finalist corps based in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  Brother Timothy Powell is spending his second year on tour as a volunteer helping the Carolina Crown to sell merchandise at each event.

All of these brothers, along with several others in each corps, work together all summer to provide a musical experience that is unmatched in the world of marching and pageantry arts.  Each corps travels the country between June and August performing up to 40 shows in one summer at varying locations.  The summer tour culminates at the Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 8 and the Drum Corps Associates Championships in Rochester, New York, the final weekend of August.