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

The staff has made their decision.


The corps will have these many people after a hard decision meeting held yesterday.

Drumline:
10 snares
5 basses
5 tenors
10 pit

14 mellophones
20 trumpets
16 baritones
7 tubas

2 Drum Majors

32 Color Guard (flag, rifle, and sabre)


This is the update. The calls have been made to the qualifying members. Old members returned but some were outplayed by younger and more talented. It's a sad thing to have to let them go. The staff can only keep so many people.


Fivesters Notes of Doom by: Donald Hasey

The Fivesters will have another camp this coming weekend.


here is the schedule.

May 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st. (Centennial High School Franklin, Tennessee)

The schedule follows.

Friday
5pm check in and put your stuff down.
6pm meeting with full corps.
7pm sightread more show music
9pm meeting
10pm nite nite

Saturday
7am wake up and eat breakfast
8am warmup in sectionals
10am full rehersal in gym (Colorguard separately)
noon lunch (outside of school)
1pm sectionals
5pm dinner (outside of school)
6pm drill camp (put show music with drill) FULL CORPS
8pm meeting (sections only) some sections will not have meetings and will do sectionals till 10 pm
10 pm nite nite

Sunday
8am wake up and eat breakfast
9am sectionals
10am full corps in gym (colorguard will also be in the gym)
noon lunch
1pm drill (music with drill and new drill)
5pm dinner
6pm drill fundamentals
9pm sectionals
10 pm nite nite


Monday
8am wake up
9am drill (music and drill)
noon lunch
1pm drill
2pm run the show
3pm sectionals in the field
4pm run the show and fix things
5pm meeting with full corps in the field
6pm check out.

The Fivesters would like to invite you to a formal dinner.

To: All Division I and II Directors and Staff

From: Music City Fivesters

Date: Wednesday, June 2nd 2004

Location: Marriot Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.


To all the director of DLOFDC:

The Fivesters organization is inviting you to accompany us to a formal dinner in the Marriot Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. This will celebrate the second season of DLOFDC as to the creation of the new corps in Division I and II. We hope that all the directors and staff can be there but we know that the corps can keep you busy. This is also a small fundraiser made by the Fivesters. We will be auctioning certain things to remember from Season 1. Local corps fans and fundraiser associates will be there as well. The dinner will be completely free to all the directors and the staff. If you plan to come please do email or pm the director and the tour coordinator. They will be both heading this fundraiser. This is not just for the Division I Fivesters but also for the Division II Fivesters Cadets. We hope that everyone can make it.

Patricia Hernandez


Fivesters Notes of Doom

The Fivesters organization will be partnering with certain corps this summer. The Fivesters will be partering with two organizations this summer.

The Mighty Crimson Knights from Division I and The Emerald Regiment from Division II. These are two of the finest corps that could be united by the organization called "GM Organization."

This union will hopefully bring more students to the competitive drum corps world.

We wish everyone good luck in the next season!

Updates for the camp on the 4th,5th, and 6th of June.


Friday 4th
5pm-Check in and put stuff down
6pm-Drill formations
8pm-Gym (full rehersal- Color Guard as well)
9pm-Sectionals (exclude drumline and colorguard)
9pm-Meeting for the Drumline and Colorguard
10pm Meeting for horns
10pm-sectionals (exclude horns)
11pm nite nite

Saturday 5th
6am-get up and get breakfast
7:30am-Drill Formations
10am-Full rehersal in field with drill
noon-lunch
1pm-Drill Formations and rehersal in field
5pm-dinner
6pm-Full corps in gym
9pm-Sectionals
10pm nite nite

Sunday 6th
7am-wake up and get breakfast
8am-rehersal in Gym Full corps
10am-Drill Workouts
noon-Lunch
1pm-Drill with music (going through run throughs of whole show)
5pm-Full Corps Meeting
6:30pm-check out

The rehersal will be at the local High School of Page High School. The phone numbers for the corps during that time will be handed in the mail this week.

When are you going to include the schedule for people to use the restrooms? That seems to be the only thing you haven't included yet.

Less is more.

That is what lunch and dinner and breakfast is for. Troughout the day there will be water breaks of about 5 minutes as well.

The Music City Fivesters have released their tour schedule. They will be competing in numerous cities around the country. Hopefully they will be ready to compete in the Summer Music Games in Murfreesboro.

Donald Hasey

you have too much time on your hands

Actually I just find time to do it. If you have less time to do stuff and you need to get something done you can always do it. Less time is better, more time is just waste.

Between work, DLOFDC, packing for trip, practicing, and writing music it gets even better.

The Move-in date has been scheduled.

The Corps will move in together into the different housings around the Centennial High School area on Friday, June 11th. The Corps will stay there until Wednesday, June 16th. Then the corps will pack and travel to California to join the tour.

The Schedule goes as it is.

June 11th Friday
Move in to housing around Franklin-5pm
Be at CHS by-7pm
7:30pm-meeting with full corps to discuss schedule
8:30-Sectionals
10pm-Nite nite

Saturday
8am-rehersal on the field
10am-Sectionals
noon-lunch in the school
1pm-drill and music rehersal
4pm-runthroughs
6pm-dinner
7pm-runthrough
9pm-nite nite

Sunday-Off
This is the time to spend with your "Corps Parents" They have done everything for you to enjoy the time that you will be in Franklin. Go and have fun before the tour comes into your life for the summer. Make sure to have everything ready to go on tour as well this day. Last minute packing is not something that you want to do. There are various places that you can go to see your corps home. Nashville has great Civil War battlesites as the other cities around it. Enjoy them because you will be spending some time here as well.

Monday
6pm- rehersal in the field
8pm-runthroughs
10pm-nite nite

Tuesday
5pm-Sectionals
9pm-runtroughs
10pm-nite nite

Wednesday
8am-Be ready to leave for California on tour
9am-Bus leaves

The Fivesters have their website up and running again for their second season. They also have news in there about the new Fivesters Cadets coming along.

The new website is here:

Fivesters website

The Fivesters organization will be teaming up with other corps in the DLOFDC world. The Jackson Flares and the Emerald Regiment from Division III are teamed up with the organization created called "GM", this organization was built to help each of the corps in it. The members of the board could only accept 5 corps at a time. The Five corps are:

Music City Fivesters
Mighty Crimson Knights
Fiversters Cadets
Emerald Regiment
Jackson Flares

The members of the board at GM are proud to have their support and talent along. There will be an annual meeting which will conclude at the end of the season to discuss new things going on and if the corps should unite or not.

The Music City Fivesters appear on TV

The Fivesters had an exciting crowd awaiting their departure practices. The crowd was basically there to see the show. The wonderful fans say that this season will be the next big thing for Nashville. The Music City Fivesters believe that with their show "Action of Nature" with form, light, and sound, things will work differently this year. The Section leaders and drum majors are very happy that the tour is going to start. Drum Majors Jessica Thorough and Al Hipens are very excited to not see other corps but see what new things come this season. Adding to the shows are the new fans that became accustomed to the world of drum corps. Channel 5 News was there to tape it all and show Nashville what lucky thing we have. Director Patricia Hernandez says that she could not be more excited for her corps believing that they are ready to go. She also stated that this year the corps has become stronger meaning a better chance to make it into the top 8 and going to the Summer Music Games. Karl Lonn says that the Summer Music Games is the overall challenge of the corps. They want to stay close to home as possible while competing all around the country.

The Music City Fivesters will be leaving tomorrow for tour.

Donald Hasey

The Jackson Flares Division III corps would like to thank the Music City Fivesters and the Cadets and wish them good luck on their upcoming tour.

ˇViva la GM!

On the Road to Cali!!!!


The tour numero dos kicks in tomorrow. The Fivesters found themselves on the way to California and we're excited to know that the season starts on Friday. The staff was excited and wanted to get to tour as soon as possible but with only one day left their dreams will come true. The Fivesters will look sharp in their new uniforms and accessories. The tour is expected to be the best ever. The Fivesters want to add the special thanks to the GM Organization for helping them out with advertising and such things. The Fivesters section leaders and drum majors will be doing a live interview from their home show and their around shows. Having some of the best drummers and horn players from around tennessee and the surrounding areas the Fivesters are very proud to begin their new season. The road to Cali would be a great thing to experience since the Fivesters are on a bus without the whole field experience and a more close experience. The Fivesters will hold the familyhood of their life. This is the part of their life they will sleep, eat, and think drum corps. The great things in life come in a summer. WE hope this summer is the one that they enjoy the most.

Donald Hasey

Fivesters Notes of Doom

It seems that the judges made a mistake on the score sheet for the june 19th competition. The scores are still being tallied. While the Fivesters are in second to last things may change in a heartbeat. The director says that they had a great show and that the show today will be even better.

Donald Hasey

To: Patricia Hernandez & the Music City Fivesters
From: John Martin & the Jackson Flares

Hey Fivesters! What do you guys think to spending some good ol' fundraising cash on taking our corps out to eat at Golden Corral after all the scores come in from the July 25 show? Good luck, and we'll check back with you as soon as scores are finalized.

Being so involved with the corps in their tour Donald Hasey has been quite busy scheduling with our Tour Coordinator and the director to bring quite a show out here. We will be bringing the Fivesters Fans some news as soon as Mr.Hasey gets settled in from an exhausting tour schedule.

The Music City Fivesters,Jackson Flares, Fivesters Cadets want to announce something that has not been done in DLOFDC yet.

With help of the GM Organization these corps are uniting together in a family day event. On July 10th which is the day of the DLO South Championships the corps will be joining and bringing in special activities from clinics to one on one lessons for free to the public. The day will be wrapped up with a special appearance by our friends from Golden Corral which will donate the food to our corps and the public as well. After this our friends and families can enjoy the Championship at the stadium and watch our corps play with pride. This is what will happen that day and who will be coming in from our staff to give freebies and tips on all of the sections.

Clinics and Entertainment

J.J LaFonte,Ashley LaFonte,Bobby Lewis-Brass music and appreciation (he will also play some music as well "free stuff will be handed out")

Brad Peterson,Tony Ashes,Ron Branning- Marching Instruction and Execution (demonstrations and technique "free demo of marching software will be handed out")

John Moreau,Dale Williams,Ronald Martin-Visual Consideration (Visuals that work) talks about how the visuals are not needed everywhere but where they would give most effect.

Brandon Asley,Devon Mickson,Cadence Cartwright- Leadership and Effect in Drum Majors. How to direct and execute your corps at the same time. (demonstrations by Fivesters and Flares Drum Majors)

Donnis Barko,Mark Steep,Carl Major-Percussion (Marching and Playing Techniques) demonstrations will be available to the public by our three corps.(free drumsticks and mallets)

Tom Combs,Ashley Owens,Rebecca Parmer-Color Guard and Weapon turnouts. (The art and dance of guard) raffle for a brand new rifle and saber.

Along with these instructors there will be a 6 members (2 of each corps) demonstrating solos and technique and equipment.

These people will be there as well giving freebies out and letting you know of their products.

ProMark, Vic Firth, Innovative Percussion, Vater, Pearl, Zildjian, Silverfox, Yamaha, Ross, Sabian, Remo, Ludwig, Evans, American Drum, Rowl Off Productions, Tapspace, Coda Music, Sibelius, DrumProMag, Drumbum, Steve Weiss Music, DCI Booth, James Cuevas (Artist), Pasic Booth, WGI Booth.

These Booths will be available to the public for free.
Golden Corral will provide:
Chicken
Mashed Potatoes
Fish
Pork
Corn
Green Beans
Peas
Salad of all kinds (fruit and vegetable)
Apple Pie and Cobbler
Peach Cobbler
Ice Cream

We thank our Good Friends Of Golden Corral for donating all of this for our upcoming "Family and Clinic Events"

Do join us in the Parking lot as well to hear our three corps warm up and compete.
The Corps will warm up together for the first 30 minutes and separately after that

Good luck tonight in Nogales. And hope that the Flares will give those Border Jumpers a good run for their money.

Fivesters Notes of Doom

The Music City Fivesters were happy to hear that all their hard work has done some good. The crowd roar of the stadium as the came off the field in Bakersfield, CA. They were appily announced 2nd place. 75.85 was the score and the Fivesters had it then and there. The Action of Nature had some ways of showing. Even though there's some work to be done in the ballad still the corps is finalizing their show. Corps Director Patricia Hernandez says that this season is tougher than the first season but the Fivesters will accept a challenge.

Fivesters Notes of Doom

The Music City Fivesters have been scoring well and not so well this past couple of days. The staff is making some final decisions on the show to be ready for Denver. The corps director Patricia Hernandez is making some decision about the staff that she has. The staff is thinking they may need some help from age outs from the last season. Lisa Simpson from the Fivesters Cadets will be making an appearance to the Music City Fivesters this coming weekend. They are making some changes in the effect and overall music. More booms are being added as well. Rumors are that new music and drill will be ahead. Look out but the Fivesters are coming back.

News from GM Organization.


The GM Organization currently met with a corps in Division I. The organization would like to invite to their wonderful organization the Guardsmen. The corps will have a clinic on the 5th of August demonstrating their percussion understanding. We hope to see many fans and corps members there to get either the education or the free stuff.

GM Organization would like to present the 1st annual Corps of GM in a clinic.


The Corps will be doing this clinic on August 5th during the whole day. When the corps is not performing or warming up to perform they will be spending the day helping the youngsters understand the art of drum corps and the technique of it.

The corps that are available for this clinic will be:
Mighty Crimson Knights
Emerald Regiment
Music City Fivesters
Jackson Flares
Fivesters Cadets
The Guardsmen Association will be making a short visit to the clinic.
Each tech will have their booth alone or with another corps’ tech for this clinic.

Here is a list of what they will teach or do:

The Corps will have their own instructors in teaching clinic booths. They will unite together at the end to bring a special show with their bands.

Emerald Regiment:

Monique Flore-How to set up a guard in the field.
Bryan Horan and Elizabeth Ortiz- Visual and drill coordination (Drum Majors instructional in the middle of the clinic.)
Mike Evans and Justin H. - Percussion instruction and writing process in corps.
Nick Z. and Ethan L. - How to get the sound that the crowd wants from the horns.


Jackson Flares:
Mac Therrien- Brass organization and execution.
Bobby Lewis-Percussion warm-ups that work.
Tony Taylor-Drill basics.
Ron Branning, John Martin, Ron Martin- Instrument Care.

Mighty Crimson Knights
Daniel Abramson-Snares quick ups.
Jesus Delgato-How to prepare your staff for corps season or marching season in high school.
Spencer Norris-Sweeps and easier tricks for better playing in tenors.
Andrew Smith-Bass Drum Care and mallets suggestions.
Matt Timman-Corps overall instruction class.

Music City Fivesters and Fivesters Cadets.
Marty Calls and Reggie Alms- Tour organization in scheduling and contribution.
Jason Ascarlett and Dale Williams- Drill and Visual design.
J.J LaFonte and Eric LaFonte- Brass Arranging and Execution music wise.
Mark Steep and Tom Aires-Percussion “Heads Up”
Brad Peterson-The right way to march.
Devon Mickson, Brandon Alsey and Tammy Pierce- Drum Majors instruction and leadership.
Ryan Thurman and Landon Lowens- Arranging Percussion Music.
Jason Owens, Ashley Owens, Tom Combs, Peter Dunkle and Kathleen Combs-Color Guard Execution, Weapon Care, Drill, Visuals and Consideration.
Donnis Barko- Percussion Solos to get you prepared for audition.
Dana Smithson-Pit Exercises to build your chops.
Mark Rosell-Instrument Care

Music City Fivesters Audition Camps to get ready for the next season.

The camps will be held on Thanksgiving Weekend. The location will be in MTSU, Murfreesboro. The whole weekend will consist of marching, playin, and individual execution. Also the Fivesters will be changing uniforms once again. They have been sponsored by the Band Hall through the GM Organization. Their sponsors are also Pearl, King, Zildjian, Evans, Innovative Percussion, Band Hall.

Uniforms

Percussion Harnesses

Snare Drums

Bass Drums

Marching Toms (They will be blue)

Trumpets

Marching French Horns

Marching Baritones

Trombones

Euphonium

Tubas

More of it to come Later.