Seasons Change

What an incredible end to our sophomore season in DCI. I am so incredibly proud of the hard work this years' corps put in, and it was rewarded handsomely in applause and adjudication. To anyone who would look down on SoundSport Class, I challenge you to go watch the festival performance recasts on Flo Marching and tell me what you think after seeing that. There's nothing like an energetic crowd to help you leave it all on the field (or floor). We also raised the bar for what NLDBC can achieve in the score category by over two points, while maintaining our standing as one of SoundSport's fastest growing, highest achieving teams. While we look forward to our All-Age Associate season in 2025, we think back fondly on our two years competing at the Music and Food Festival. I mean, who knows, perhaps a Northern Lights ensemble will return one day alongside the "A-Corps"? ;)

But, I get ahead of myself. The admin team and I are focused squarely on the future imminently ahead of us. Our annual planning session and Board of Directors meeting rapidly approaches on Sunday, September 1st. We will begin with the public portion of the meeting at 3pm in the Newaygo High School band room with our 2024 season wrap up and board elections, before our closed door 2025 season planning session. We invite anyone who might be interested to see the inner workings of our administration to come visit us and watch the proceedings.

If you follow the corps on social media, you might be wondering what the heck we've got going on with the strange text and dark cover/profile photos. You'll just have to keep checking back to see when those change for a special 2025 announcement.

If you haven't heard it from somewhere else, we have a lot planned for our first season in All-Age Class, including more Tour Event performances on the 2025 summer tour, a slightly more robust rehearsal schedule, some additional non-field-show performances, and of course the ever-expanding Northern Lights brand--all of it in the name of bringing all-age corps to the state of Michigan, and always keeping our member-first mission at the forefront of what we do.

Hopefully I get a chance to meet you at an open house or audition this fall. 

#BWTNLA
Doug Olmstead
​Corps Director/Vice President