Music Travel Consultants: Featured Destinations

Music Travel Consultants is focused on creating custom trips that provide student travel experiences in destinations within the United States and world-wide. Music Travel Consultants’ featured Destinations include many popular U.S. cities and international cities. Some of our most popular featured destinations include New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Walt Disney World, Florence, Philadelphia, Ohio, Indianapolis, Bands of America Grand Nationals, Tournament of Roses Parade, Hawaii, and Texas.

Music Travel Consultants is a Tour Operator, a travel company that puts together customized trips for its clients. Since 1987, led by accomplished scholastic music directors and musicians, Music Travel Consultants has become first choice for student music group tours by listening to customers, providing industry-leading on-line services and by having professional Tour Directors conduct most trips. Focused on creating custom trips that provide relevant, memorable and rewarding student travel experiences, Indianapolis-based Music Travel partners with customers to successfully do just that, in destinations within the United States and world-wide. Over 165 years combined travel expertise earned in over 68 countries means Music Travel Consultants will anticipate your needs and fulfill your group’s wishes, without surprises or hidden costs.

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One of the many bands performing in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal.

21 Jan

Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade!

Is your high school marching band looking for a unique Spring Break trip that provides a rewarding performance experience? How about traveling to Savannah, GA and participating in one of the oldest, largest and most-recognized Saint Patrick's Day parades in the world? Savannah's Saint Patrick's Day Parade marching band trips make for a unique, perfect mix of educational performance and fun. How? Crowds of a half-million spectators each year and Savannah is within a one-hour drive of four major [...]

By Emily Ward Featured Destinations Marching Band, Savannah, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Travel, trip 0 CommentsRead more...

Members of The Purdue "All-American" Marching Band posing with the World's Largest Drum.

30 Oct

St. Patrick’s Day Parade with the Purdue “All American” Marching Band!

As the one national holiday celebrated in more countries around the world than any other, on St. Patrick's Day, everyone wants to be Irish. And one of the very best tours for a marching band is the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland's capital! Picture it: Dublin city centre is closed to traffic, 500,000 people line the streets, dressed "Head to Toe" in green. The sun is beaming in the sky. In the distance you can hear the [...]

By Jef Furr Featured Destinations Ireland, Marching, Parade, St. Patrick's Day, Tour, Travel 0 CommentsRead more...

The Avon High School Orchestra from Indiana performs for a packed house in Rome at the Oratory of San Francesco Saverio del Caravita.

30 Aug

Featured Destination: Avon Orchestra’s Trip to Italy & Austria

Avon Orchestra's trip to Italy and Austria: Three once-in-a-lifetime performances in Rome, Florence and Salzburg, plus fun in Siena!
Part of the Avon Community School Corporation, in Avon, Indiana, the Avon High School Symphony Orchestra was created in 2007. It has grown rapidly since then, to four full orchestras filled with over 700 students from grades 6 through 12. Under the guiding baton of its Director, the multi-talented Dean Westman, the Avon Orchestras have consistently earned Gold Medals at Indiana State [...]

By Andrew Moran Featured Destinations Austria, Florence, Italy, Orchestra, performance, Rome, Salzburg, Travel, Trips 0 CommentsRead more...

William Henry Harrison High School Choir performing at Disney Springs

30 Aug

Popular USA Student Performance Venues

Searching for popular USA student performance venues? In which your group can play, or attend a clinic to improve its music? There are literally hundreds around our country, to say nothing (in this article) of the opportunities available worldwide. Often, we find music directors are shocked to learn their ensembles can perform at some of these cool places. If you've been seeking, but not finding, take a look at this short list:

Lake Buena Vista, Florida • Walt Disney World
Disney [...]

By Emily Ward Featured Destinations performance, Popular, Student, Top, U.S.A., USA, Venues 0 CommentsRead more...

Add a performance to your next Music Travel Consultants trip.

27 Jun

Student Performance Trips to Universal Orlando

Create lasting memories for your marching band, orchestra, show choir, concert choir, or jazz band with a student performance trip to Universal Orlando! Perform at CityWalk™ Lagoon Stage*, a Music in the Parks, Music USA Festivals or OrlandoFest competition, or march in front of cheering spectators at Universal Studios' Florida parks. Universal Studios offers many educational hands-on group programs that involve one-of-a-kind opportunities. Choose what is right for your group and enjoy education-focused performances, adjudicated festivals, workshops, and clinics, [...]

By Jeff Buchanan Featured Destinations Choir, Marching Band, Music in the Parks, Music USA Festivals, Orchestra, Orlando, OrlandoFest, STARS Performance, Universal Studios 0 CommentsRead more...

14 May

Perform in Disney’s Candlelight Processional

Spreading holiday cheer as honorary cast members in Disney's Candlelight Processional is a wonderful gift for your choir during the holiday season. Your choir will never forget this magical program that takes place at Epcot© annually. The candlelight processional performance retells the Christmas story with the Voices of Liberty, Disney cast members trying out to be part of the Christmas Tree (in the middle of the choir) and high school, college and adult choirs from around the country, all [...]

By Vicky Wielosinski Featured Destinations Candlelight, Choir, disney, Epcot, performance, Processional 0 CommentsRead more...

Macy's Thanskgiving Day Parade Band Travel

30 Apr

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Band Tours

Marching through The Big Apple in New York City’s world-famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a major accomplishment for any Band Director and his/her band. Learn why Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Band Tours with Music Travel Consultants are second to none!
At the top of the list of New York’s attractions is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade is the famous department store's annual gift to children everywhere! Held in Manhattan, on Thanksgiving morning, this is one of America’s [...]

By Andrew Moran Featured Destinations macy's marching band travel, Macy's Parade Band Tours, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade band Tours 0 CommentsRead more...

Choir trips with Music Travel Consultants

30 Apr

School Choir Trip Ideas

Is your choir ready to take its performance to the next level? But you can't decide on a venue or destination? Worry not! Music Travel Consultants' list of popular school choir trip ideas is here to help. The range of choir destinations is vast, from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome to Carnegie Hall in New York. These two and others have proven themselves over years, hosting many successful student choir tours. Each choir trip MTC puts together is custom-designed [...]

By Emily Ward Featured Destinations, Music Education Choir Tours, Choir Travel, Choir Trips, Popular Choir Performance Opportunities, Top Choir Venues 0 CommentsRead more...

26 Mar

Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade and Race Marching Band Trips

Many people visit the heart of Indiana every year, but one annual event, the running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, surpasses all others. Best known as the home of the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," Indianapolis hosts the world's largest single-day sporting event, the Indianapolis 500, over Memorial Day Weekend in May. The race has been run for over 100 years, and Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade and Race Marching Band Trips are a great way for a band to [...]

By Jef Furr Featured Destinations Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade and Race Marching Band Trips, Indianapolis 500 Marching Band Trips, Indianapolis 500 Parade Marching Band Trips, Perform at the Indianapolis 500 0 CommentsRead more...

26 Mar

Bowl Games for Your Student Performance Group

Attending a collegiate Bowl Game is great fun, but performing at a Bowl Game is an achievement reserved only for a select few. Bowl games for your student performance group require careful planning. Some parades and half-time shows require audition tapes, application materials, and confirmations up to 2 years in advance. Let Music Travel Consultants walk you through the choices!

Allstate Sugar Bowl
Imagine your band performing in New Orleans' Mercedes Benz Super Dome for 75,000 plus fans! In addition to [...]