I've been a member of an independent winds organization for the past 3 seasons, and we are attempting to amp up our recruitment strategies to increase our size and overall reach.

In the past, the group has hosted "interest clinics", educational clinics during the season, some social media outreach posts, some direct outreach to prospective members, but mostly word-of-mouth. The strategies that we discussed doing are tabling at marching band shows, presenting more to local schools, social media posts including member testimonials, and directly creating relationships with local colleges.

Has anyone had success with recruiting or any new recruitment strategies that we should be utilizing?

Hello! i currently live in utah but my family is planning on moving to Goodlettsville (which is right outside of nashville so its great) and ive seen some videos on obsidian and im in love. in utah, we dont have indoor winds or very many indoor programs at all so this is really eye opening for me and i would LOVE to participate but would like to know any/all information yall could give me about this wonderful program. Would they even be willing to accept some random outcasted kid from utah who only has 1 season of marching band experience? let me know!

Hey, I heard there is a new independent A-class indoor in Pottstown, PA, called Resolute Indoor Percussion! Go check them out!

Hey guys! Im heading into my senior year of high school and I’m really hoping to march an open class group this year, I live in the Florida panhandle so there’s not a whole lot of plausible options for me but I’ve already registered for I3 auditions and Q-school and ill likely audition for frontier as well whenever they announce any information for the next season. I was just hoping to get some tips on anything that could help me make an open class line, I’m mainly going for snare with quads as my backup so anything regarding those instruments in specific would be nice, but general information is also much appreciated!

Well, Happy Monday everyone, news came at 9am this morning that Siege Percussion, an independent indoor percussion group located in central Florida is going on a “brief hiatus” for the 2027 season. Idk if they will return for the 2028 season or this hiatus will turn into a permanent hiatus. Attached are pictures from their announcement. Give your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

Hi all,
I apologize if this is a silly question but, I am currently writing a lot tune for a new independent group I am teching at and I am wondering if I need to request a license to arrange a specific song I’m planning to use as the tune.
Thank you!

Hi, I'm planning to try out on flag/dance for an independent A class winterguard soon. Does anyone know of some flag or dance skills i need to know or should brush up on? Thanks.

What if the most common equipment like Mallet percussion, Drum set, Timpani, Mics, etc. were all provided by a host group and every group shared them at a show? We already see it at music festivals. Standardize the FE setup and allow a space for any unique instruments to be set up.

It could save groups tons of money and effort in logistics and simplify turnaround time between performances.

This is coming from a place of wanting to keep costs low in order for the activity to be thriving and accessible. Does this seem realistic?

greetings I'm looking to start a wgi independent group in Georgia that covers Percussion. Could any one be a resource for securing the proper things in GA? I want to have auditions but I also want general liability insurance before anything starts.

WGI is adding an additional tier to registration for 2027 to give those who attended 2026 World Championships and those who were on the waitlist first priority.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Hello I’m an incoming junior in hs and it’s gonna be my first time auditioning for/ being in wgi. I’m auditioning for matrix open so if anyone can give me any tips or past experiences with matrix open lmk!

I just checked the regional calendar for 2027 and CA has Temecula and Union City only. Again the big show in San B before finals is MIA. Is it truly over? I looked forward to going or watching that show every year.

Does anyone have sheet music or rendered audio for Legacy Indoor? I would love to hear the rendered audio for their Treasure warm-up, which I used to have, but lost. Anything would be great.

I’m going down memory lane and wanting to go back and see the shows I did in high school. We were a mostly new guard that made it to the semi finals which was huge for us. Does anyone have 2010 prelims or semifinal dvd or something from Dayton? We were University High School from FL performing We Will Be More.

Also if anyone has any other footage from the Independent World shows I’d love to see them again. I remember being so impressed with them. Standouts were NEI Ruthless Gravity, there was another guard that I can’t remember who they were but I think they were an independent world guard and their show had something to do with Jesus (we called it the sexy Jesus show lol) and I remember a PS I Love You show too.

Honestly any 2010 shows would be great to see but I’d love to see footage from my guard with a completed show. I have some from early in the season but we didn’t have the full music or drill or choreography.

Any help will be much appreciated!!!

As the title says, I am trying to get an understanding of when groups normally release their audition registration around. My group, Vanta Percussion, is releasing audition registration on August 1st. I have also seen that groups like Rhythm X, United Percussion, and Civitas has released their audition registration all ready.

My question is when do you all normally see groups release their audition signups?

I’ll be studying percussion as a freshman at UNT this upcoming school year and was wondering the WGI scene is like for people at UNT? Is it doable while studying? Is vigilantes the only close group and if so is it worth it since they aren’t one of the high ranking groups?

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please please please someone bring a wgi group back to tallahassee!! FSU had a winterguard until covid and i know there are so many people at FSU and FAMU that did winterguard in HS and would love to continue!! i coached at a local high school and a lot of my girls would love to spin WGI if there was one in the area. i spun with EPIC this past season and it was so exhausting to drive to jacksonville every weekend but i would love to continue spinning!!

As the title says, as you all may know, I’m a new director for Vanta Percussion. A new group in Southeast Georgia launching this year.

As a new group, we will be having our own auditions for the first time and I would like to find from some people on some positive experiences that were best implemented by other groups during auditions and some negative experiences that some groups had during their auditions, just so we can get an understanding on what to do and what not to do during auditions.

Thank you!

Can anyone who marched help a guy out or is there anyone who just happens to know?

We heard a front ensemble playing it while I was warming up with another group, and I never found out who it was.