The Fivesters are proud to announce their Season 2 Staff. These people are not more than friends but a family as well. We would like to thank those who have stayed with us through the first and have come back this past season.

Staff for Music City Fivesters:
Corps Director: Patricia Hernandez
Tour Coordinator: Reggie Alms
Brass Arrangers: Dana Lowenstein and J.J LaFonte
Drill and Visual Director: Jason Ascarlett
Brass Caption Head: Justin Escam
Brass Consultant 1: Emily Scould
Brass Consultant 2: Mark Scould
Marching Director: Brad Peterson
Marching and Visual Consultant: John Moreau
Percussion Arranger 1: Erick Lowenstein
Percussion Arranger 2 : Karl Lonn
Percussion Caption Head: Donnis Barko
Arranger Consultant: Landon Lowens
Percussion Consultant 1: Kal Rowley
Percussion Consultant 2: Mark Rossell
Color Guard/Weapons and Dance Instructors: Kathleen Combs, Tom Combs, and Peter Dunkle
Drum Major Instructors: Brandon Alsey and Tammy Pierce

The Fivesters will have a tryout camp followed by the first camp. The tryout camp will be May 14th 15th and 16th of 2004.

The Schedule is as follows.
Friday
5pm check in
Drumline- Centennial High School
Brass-Page High School
Color Guard- Liberty Elementary
Division II
Drumline-Freedom Intermediate
Color Guard-Johnson Elementary
Brass-Freedom Middle

Everyone will check in at the same time.
6pm warmup and start getting to learn technique and warmups
8pm Drumlines from both corps will get together and talk
Brass and Color Guard will do the same.

Everyone will meet at Centennial High School

9pm Meeting (both Corps)

10pm nite nite

Saturday everyone meets at Centennial High School
6am wake up and eat breakfast
7am warmup and technique
9am Division I Drill mini session
10am Meeting with the drill instructors (Division I only)
11am Division II drill mini session
noon Division II meets with drill instructors
noon Division I Lunch
1pm Division II lunch
1pm Sectionals (Division I only)
2pm Division I staff meeting with full corps
2pm sectionals (Division II only)
3pm Full Corps meeting (Both Divisions)
4pm warmup and mini drill session (Both divisions)
6pm Dinner (Both Divisions)
7pm Full Corps (Both divisions)
9pm Meeting (Division I and II in different places)
10pm nite nite

Sunday
8am wake up and eat breakfast
9am meeting with corps (Different places)
11am technique and warmup (both corps in the same place)
noon Lunch (Both corps)
2pm Drill mini session
3pm Meeting with staff (Division I only)
3pm Sectionals and Meeting with Sectional staff (Division II only)
5pm check out.

This is the schedule for the tryouts.

The next camp will be may 23rd 24th and 25th

Both corps will be in different schools.
Division I- Centennial High School
Division II- Page High School

both corps will follow same schedule.

Friday
5pm check in
6pm meeting with staff about upcoming season
8pm warmup with sections
9pm warmup with corps (music will be handed out during this time)
9:30pm Staff will consider any other people trying out if the decision could not be made from earlier camp.
10pm nite nite

Saturday
6am wake up and eat breakfast
7am warmup (sectionals)
9am Full corps warmup and sightreading
11am Drill mini session
noon Lunch
1pm Drill mini session
2pm Meeting with staff
3pm Full corps (will be playing show music then)
4pm Sectionals (this is for show music and adjustments)
6pm dinner
7pm Drill Session (technique and fundamentals)
9pm Full Corps meeting (fees and schedule issues)
10pm nite nite

Sunday
8am wake up and eat breakfast
9am Drill mini session (fundamentals)
10am Full corps (show music)
noon lunch
1pm Sectionals
3pm Playing technique with Caption heads (will be in different rooms)
5pm check out

The Fivesters will be getting new stuff in come next week. The Fivester Cadets will be marching with the old drums. I will be keeping you up to date with the new things.

These are the possibilities:
New uniforms
Drums
Brass horns
ColorGuard flags
New truck along with the old truck
New sticks and mallets
Podiums

and other good stuff.

Cadet Rifles for ColorGuard

We will also get the Boston Uniform.
Boston Uniform for corps

We will also get the Aussie Hats (Black with red feathers)
Aussie Hats (black with Red feathers)

These are our sabres for the following year.
Action Sabrs

The Music City Fivesters are proud to present their Season 2 Marching Show.

"Action of Nature"

The show will consist of Form, Light, and Sound.
The show is being written by Hal Leonard.

The drill is being designed by our drill writers and our caption heads. This show is being set to wonderful music and tone. The Fivesters will let the crowd know what the flag designs are going to be and all of the other things.

"The Fivesters welcome young members into the corps"

The older Fivesters that marched with the corps last year welcome the new Fivesters to be for the coming year. The Fivesters say that they hope this season goes as well as the last one. They are proud of those who made it to the meeting nite in Nashville. The members were noticed by e-mail or mail so the press would not interfere with it. Some of the upcoming members think that this corps will do great and move up in the charts from a finishing 11th place to a hopeful 5th place. "The show has a good meaning and if it's executed right by our corps it will turns some heads around," this was said by Lisa Simpson our age out drum captain for the First Fivesters last season. She will be marching with the Music City Legend, a local DCA corps. She will also be teaching at local high schools. Many things have been heard from her and they will be heard. She just finished her college education at MTSU and will be going on to hopefully become a band director. Another member that will bring shine to our corps will be former Cavaliers snare drummer Lou Bash. He told us that the Fivesters made him think twice. He wanted to start again and decided to do it here in the heart of country music. "Even though this corps may be in its 2nd year it will be a great year," he said these words himself. Many of the crowding fans for the Fivesters have seen some changes throughout last season and will see it again this season.
The meeting dinner was just what the people and the members need it. They got to know old members and age out members and got to know the staff a little bit better. Donnis Barko, the Percussion Caption Head was there and scouted some young talent for the line coming from the local high schools. He told them that it gives him great joy to be working with the outstanding talent that he sees. Even though most of those youngins will not make the line considering we have an outstanding turnout of 60 drummers coming to audition he says that he is proud of just having those kids here and that they were all winners to him. The corps wishes that they could grab those drummers and let them march but there was no way that could happen. The Director of the corps Patricia Hernandez is not more proud than she already is. She will be watching some of the auditions and be looking at the talent that she has for the next season to come. She was not seen at the meeting since she was scouting some talent on the western border. She had seen some WGI talent over there that she would love to have in her corps so she is basically on the business trip. Donnis Barko served as the head person for that night. It was a great night and hopefully it will bring more talent along.

Reggie Alms
Tour Coordinator

"Fivesters to find a good home"


The Fivesters will have the usual camps and move ins before the tour starts. Many families have volunteered to help with the corps members to stay at their house. The Nashvillians have donated their time and attention towards our corps and will be helping us with move in. We are starting a program this year called corps parents. The members will stay with a corps parent unless they live in Nashville or fairly close. The corps parent will act like a normal parent except the blood will not be related.
Some of the corps parents are excited to be helping us out. We are also starting the program in Florida with our Division II Fivesters Cadets. The corps will have some free days and will enjoy the cities that they visit during the season. The move in day has not been announced yet. The date is still a work in progress according to the staff. Both of the corps will come to the same location and then the Division II will leave. This makes it easier to have all the staff together for a while before starting the tour. The entire staff both division I and II will be working together throughtout the summer. They will be asking for help and such things.

Donald Hasey

"Fivesters have a new angle"


The corps director Patricia Hernandez will be deciding along with the staff to keep some of the young talent that they saw at tryouts. Patricia said that the talent among the players was wonderful and full of life. She thought that the auditions were a success. Donnis Barko said that the drummers that he had were about 60 both in battery and pit.

He wishes to keep the battery at,
16 snares
8 tenors
6 basses
6 cymbals
20 pit

basically 4 people will be not be getting a call for the next camp.

The horns have been set already

The corps will have,
30 trumpets
25 mellophones
8 tubas
20 baritones

30 flags/rifles/sabres

2 drum majors

This is the amount that we are going to have for the next season.

i hope the dci judges dont count heads at staging, cuz that's way above 135 cap limit.

The corps is still making final decisions about auditions. Maybe I should have specified that we have those amount of people still auditioning.

Sorry for the confusion.
I will keep you guys posted on things going on.

Donald Hasey