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VMAPA virtual holiday showcase — Home for the Holidays! — will be held Saturday, December 19 at 5PM PST. Click to participate!
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Vanguard Bingo is our organization’s flagship fundraiser, providing a significant portion of our operating revenues and financial support.
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VMAPA Announces 2021 Board of Directors Leadership
Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA), is pleased to announce a newly elected slate of Executive Officers. Jennifer Bauman will lead the Executive Officers and VMAPA Board of Directors into 2021 as the next President and Board Chair. “The organization is facing so much uncertainty due to the current state of the world, but it […]
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VMAPA 2020 Virtual Holiday Showcase: Home for the Holidays
This year has challenged every aspect of our lives. In these moments, we lean on music, the arts, friends and family to give us solitude and find inspiration. On behalf of all of us at VMAPA and the Board of Directors, we’re excited to invite all of you to our virtual holiday showcase called Home […]
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Introducing A New Series: Vanguard Voices
Introducing our new series, “Vanguard Voices”, a platform to highlight the voices and experiences of those who have come through the Vanguard organization! To kickstart this project, we will be sharing a collection of interviews from alumni crossing several different generations, as they talk about the unique experience of life on tour. Episode 1: Featuring […]
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SCV Health & Wellness Committee
With the evolution of the drum corps activity in the last decade, there has been a higher physical and mental demand asked from every performing member. With the incorporation of dance skills and maneuvering props on top marching, members are being asked to do things which most of the time, their bodies may not agree […]
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Vanguard Music and Performing Arts Announces New Executive Leadership
(Santa Clara, California) Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA), an internationally acclaimed non-profit performing arts organization and the home of multiple performing programs including two world champion drum and bugle corps, the Santa Clara Vanguard and the Vanguard Cadets, today announced the appointment of board members Michael Kovalich and Jeremy Van Wert to serve as […]
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A Message from our new Interim Co-Executive Director Jeremy Van Wert
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