National Champion Majorettes

Junior Colleen Murphy catches a baton as the University of Georgia majorettes rehearse on Thursday, September 23, 2010 in Athens, Ga.

Awhile back I photographed the University of Georgia's latest National Champions: The Redcoat Band Majorettes.

Redcoat Flags

A flagline member dances as the University of Georgia Redcoat Band practices on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 in Athens, Ga.

I was sent out to do a feature story on the Georgia Redcoat Band and I found this off to the side. The general story was on the band raising money to replace old instruments and to migrate towards having all of their instruments be silver rather than a mix of silver & gold.

Redcoats!

Redcoat band senior Brent Cohen throws powder up into the air pregame as the Georgia Bulldogs lead the Kentucky Wildcats 20-6 at halftime at Sanford Stadium on Saturday, November 21, 2009.

I work around Georgia's Redcoat band a bunch. They're good people, have a good sound and they have to endure the same football games that i do, rain, shine, or otherwise. They don't get a game ball on the field for all of their hard work week in and week out.

So this being the final home game, i had two pictures that i liked from the game/debacle against Kentucky.

Maybe sometime I'll get to actually see them perform at the half instead of sending pictures.



Georgia feature twirler Amanda Farmer performs in front of the Redcoat Band seniors before the state of the Georgia/Kentucky game at Sanford Stadium on Saturday, November 21, 2009.

Stairway to the Redcoats

The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band is getting their own practice facility, so i hung out with them for a rehearsal as they rehearse in a parking lot due to field constraints with the football program. (When you have a top-10 football program in the nation, i really don't think they can be asked to move off the field so the band can rehearse. Just doesn't work that way)

Anyways, i made a lot of pictures and came back the next day with Mr. Audio Recorder so i could put it together as a slideshow below.



All in all it was a lot of fun to shoot and produce, even if it meant hearing the same ending to "Stairway to Heaven" over and over. Although hearing "Kashmir" on the windchimes was pretty neat.