By: wtran|Thursday, July 29, 2010|2010, How I Joined...|Leave a Comment
He was in Kingsmen, she was in Velvet Knights – both met while doing the Kingsmen Alumni Corps back in 2007 (click here to read that story) here’s how they became Renegades:
In 2007, I (Madge) was the Chairman of the Kingsmen Alumni Corps PPC (Party Planning Committee), and five from this group (#6, Deb Peterson, already being in NorCal) made our way to San Francisco to march the Chinese New Year Parade with the Renegades. Non-stop frivolity was the order of the weekend, centered around jello shots (both making and eating!!). Ray joined this particular journey in 2008 (the beginning of the Sultan’s Harem), and we’ve been involved with CNY ever since. In 2009, after finishing our season with the Kingsmen Senior Corps and celebrating our first anniversary with a ten-day trip to my home state of Colorado, we heard that there were openings in the soprano line for the Renegades. While we initially hesitated, due to $$$$ having been spent so far that summer, we realized a golden opportunity had once again been dropped at our doorstep (one we missed the year before). So, we took the leap and jumped in the pool.
We spent the three weekends prior to DCA driving back and forth from SoCal for rehearsals. Ray learned the entire show by Family Day (with the help of a bunch of great people!!!), and I stepped into the Honor Guard. Those four weeks were beyond incredible, and getting to experience DCA for the first time as members of the Renegades….well, words can’t begin to describe!!! Thus, we were back for more in 2010 starting with Open House in December. While Ray stepped back into a soprano spot, I made the move to the Pit (and I’m lovin’ it!!!). We’re not only glad to be marching, we’re stoked to be able to march with such a fun, focused corps as the Renegades.
Our time in the Renegades has brought some of the fondest memories we’ve spent in drum corps. We both garner so much enjoyment being with such quality people both on and off the field. ROCK ON GADES!!!!
Why don’t you join the Renegades and tell us your story?
By: wtran|Saturday, July 24, 2010|2010, How I Joined..., Seven|Leave a Comment
Jenn Russell is a first year member in the color guard who has never marched junior corps – here is the scoop on how she joined:
I had done color guard from 7th grade all the way through high school, including marching band, but decided to take a break (at peak junior corps age…) and see what else was out there upon reaching college. At Cal Poly, I joined the spring dance program and made dancing my focus.
Two years pass and around my junior year I began coaching color guard at Templeton High School under the direction of David Landers. Coaching it soon made me realize how much I missed performing it.
Two more years pass and I grew tired of hearing my co-workers (David Landers, Zach Hubbard, and Mike Heckmann) walk around rehearsals talking about cool Renegades stuff and me, of course, not having a clue what they were talking about. “If you want to know then join” was a frequent response to my questions. I really wasn’t sure, but they made it sound like such a good time…
I decided to consider it. So, open house for 2010 season rolled around and they had successfully convinced me to try it out. Try it out…right…I think it’s impossible to show up to a Renegades event and not be instantly hooked! The members were so welcoming and their excitement for the program was contagious! I knew from that moment that I had made the right choice.
Landers had always said that I was a “lifelong Renegade who just doesn’t know it yet.”
Turns out he was right.
Why don’t you join the Renegades and tell us your story?
By: wtran|Monday, June 14, 2010|2010, Drumline, How I Joined..., Uncategorized|1 Comment
Kevin Murray and Adam Jones
How I found out about Renegades…
Right out of high school I was involved with a junior corps that was starting up out of Woodland, CA called Shockwave. The two years I was in Shockwave playing snare drum and we only performed at the Stockton Show. I was there in 1999 and saw the Renegades and that was the first time I had ever heard of senior corps.
2001 and 2002 I marched Mandarins (www.mandarins.org) on snare and marched all through college with the Sacramento State Marching Band and Winter Ensemble (http://www.csus.edu/music/mband/index.htm) 1999-2006 trading off snare and tenors. Since the Fall of 2008 I have been the Marching Peruccssion Director for the Sacramento State Marching Band and Winter Ensemble. While I was marching the Sacramento State Winter Ensemble we teamed up with brass players and started the formation of a senior corps called Captial Regiment… The name would later be changed to River City Regiment. After I graduated from Sacramento State in 2005 I was invited to check out River City Regiment and I ended up marching 2006 and 2007 on tenors and competed against Renegades.
How I joined Renegades…
River City Regiment folded in 2007 and I still wanted to march and go to DCA Championships. So a few of my friends that I had made at River City Regiment and I decided we would march Renegades in 2008. I marched snare 2008, tenors in 2009 and for 2010 I am the battery section leader playing snare again. Also for this 2010 season I am the first recipient of the First Annual KMSC Scholarship (http://www.kmstrategicconsulting.com/community)
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By: cjnalls|Sunday, May 30, 2010|How I Joined...|Leave a Comment
Rich Skare has played Mellophone and Contrabass in the Renegades over the past ten years. Here is his story of how he came to join the corps:
“After not having any affiliation with corps for a long time, I found myself at the Stockton show in 1999, just in time to see the inaugural field performance of the Renegades. “Cool”, I thought to myself, “that there is a senior group getting off the ground.”
………two years pass………
“I find myself really REALLY missing being a musician as I’d not really touched a horn in years, let ALONE playing in any kind of ensemble. I then remember those Renegades people and decide that I don’t care if they only have five horn players, if they still exist I will join them and hold on for dear life, for better or worse.
“I then show up to a early season rehearsal for the 2001 season of the SF Renegades and find Chris Nalls (who was my first REAL musical mentor dating back to when I was 15 years old) and a membership turnout of 40+ horn players.
“I WAS HOME”
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