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Collected Item: “Music Brings the World Together”

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Music Brings the World Together

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This is a writing piece created by me.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Over the quarantine, something that I really love was not able to happen. The Drum Corps International 2020 season was cancelled. Drum corps is like marching band, but a lot more intense. There are only brass and percussion instruments, and you spend the whole summer training to learn one 12-minute show.
As a result of the season being cancelled, a nonprofit organization has started called Virtual Arts Inc. Over the summer, they put on a virtual drum corps show that I was a part of. I met a bunch of new people, learned a new instrument, and got a lot better at playing music. They are putting on another show in December that I plan to be a part of as well.

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#VDBC, #music, #bandnerd, #drumcorpsinternational2020

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Isaac Fletcher

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2020-08-17
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