Category: The King’s Academy

TKA 2011 Transformed. This post covers the challenges involved in writing and producing The King’s Academy (TKA) 2011 show named, “Transformed.” Leadership I truly believe in the saying, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”. I had various failures as a leader in 2011 and those failures led to sub standard planning and performing. We went…

TKA 2010 Classic Schizophrenia. It’s time to hop in the time machine and take a look at this iconic show by the King’s Academy (TKA) Marching Lions. This post will make more sense if you watch the show first: Picking a show We were coming off of a bad season. You can read about our…

TKA 2009 Aquasonic. This post will delve into the King’s Academy (TKA) Marching Lion’s 2009 show entitled, “Aquasonic”. At this point the TKA band had been 2nd in the state in 2005 and 2008. We’d also been 3rd in 2004 and 4th in 2007. Add to this a best percussion award in 2007 and a…

TKA 2008 Groove. This post will delve into the 2008 marching season at The King’s Academy (TKA). Click here for other posts regarding The King’s Academy Marching Band. Where are we in the story? The TKA marching band was coming off of a great season. Our fantastic staff had remained virtually intact. They were still…

2007 TKA Amazonian Rainforest. Today I’ll be talking about the 2007 TKA (The King’s Academy) Marching Lions show titled “Amazonian Rainforest”. This is a continuation of a series of posts that cover my time as director at The King’s Academy. Getting started 2006 was a disappointing season. I was pleased with the performance of the…