Author - Emily Ward

Marching Band Airport Security with Music Travel Consultants

Tips for getting your marching band through airport security

During your marching band trip, you will make an impression on lots of people - parents, judges, school administrators, teachers, competitors, and more. You always want your first impression to be great!  A very important time to make that great impression is when you go through an airport security checkpoint. Here are some tips for getting your marching band through airport security smoothly and efficiently.  Start by leaving your school's skunk mascot at home! Be polite and attentive...and cut the...
Florence, Italy performance with Music Travel Consultants

The Benefits of European Performance Group Travel

As a Music Director, bringing your group to Europe on a performance tour is a life-changing experience for you and your group. To enlighten students with such musical and spiritual growth is the kind of opportunity some only dream of...but the reality of bringing your performance group to Europe is closer then you think. There are so many wonderful and elaborate churches and majestic cathedrals that are ready to be filled with your group's presence. And there is nothing that...
Band Trips to Disney

A Music Trip to Disney Parks

There's a reason that music performance and music education opportunities are so abundant at Walt Disney theme parks. Music brings feeling and heart into films and stage plays. Didn't you melt, just a little, when first you heard “When You Wish Upon a Star” in Pinocchio? The Pinocchio theme song, released with Disney's second animated feature film in 1940, has become an iconic theme for the Disney organization.  For decades, Disney has brought evil and good to life by harnessing the power of music to tell...
Your First Band Trip

Planning your first marching band trip

Congratulations! If you are reading this, you are not only a Music Director, you are a Music Director with passion and are ready to show your students new life-changing educational experiences and take your student's performance to the next level with your first marching band trip! Planning a music performance trip for the first time can seem overwhelming and stressful. But planned out over time, it can be something magical and positively impact students and others for the rest of their...