ColtsMelloDad

My son is marching lead mello for Crown this year. He was only minimally affected by the virus. When we talked to him on 7/13 (the day they skipped the show) he said he wasn't really sick, just tired. One of the texts I got from him Sunday said that the day we had talked to him was the worst he felt. BTW Crown had free time in San Antonio on Sunday, so anyone who wanted some rest was able to get it.

When I first saw the DM bow move early in the season, I wondered about it. I also saw lots comments about it in these forums. After the show in K-zoo I mentioned this to my son and he said they did it to give the other DM time to move from backfield to the front.

My son is in his 3rd season with the Colts. He was a clarinet player that started learning mello at the beginning of his senior year in high school. (he took some lessons from one of the brass guys on the HS MB staff, and practiced his butt off.) At his 1st Colts audition in Dec of that year his prepared audition piece was on the clarinet (Colts allows you to do this). When he walked into the audition room they asked him, "What's that?" "Contraband," he replied. His musicianship and mello playing were good enough to get asked back the next month. They were very pleased with the mello progress and he was (and still is) in. As others have said, Colts really is a family. It's a great organization. I think that when my son started this experience he was thinking that after marching Colts for a year or two he might try to get into Phantom or Cavaliers, but he decided that his was his drum corps home. They took a chance on a clarinet player that wanted to work, and he wants to repay that with his loyalty. I'll never forget the day his first contract came in the mail. I was a work and a photo was sent to my cell phone. It was a picture of the contract. I'm rambling, but I just wanted to echo the good words about the Colts.