Hawthorne Caballeros and Penn State Indoor Drumline Create Partnership
The Hawthorne Caballeros and the Penn State Indoor Drumline are proud to announce a partnership. This partnership will combine a world class and award winning staff and percussion teaching discipline that is shared between the Caballeros and PSID. For the members of both groups, the partnership will create multi-season training and performing opportunities for members of both organizations.

Marc Garside, 2012 and 2013 Percussion Caption Head for the Hawthorne Caballeros said about the partnership, "I am very excited to work with Brendan and the other PSU Indoor staff on this partnership. The educational and recruiting benefits to both groups will be very good. We are both excited to help provide percussionists with more opportunities to perform with some of the best staff I have had the privilege to know and work with.  I am excited to be able to coordinate our efforts to give the members of PSU Indoor a positive educational and competitive experience."

Brendan Fullam is the Director of the 2012 -13 Penn State Indoor Drumline and Marc Garside is the 2012 Percussion Caption Head for the Hawthorne Caballeros. Marc and Brendan will manage the partnership.

Brendan’s percussion and teaching experience includes marching and performing with the 2000 Reading Buccaneers, the 2002 Empire Statesmen, 2002 – 03 Penn State Indoor Drumline; Teaching the 2003 DCA World Champion Hawthorne Caballeros, and the 2004 and 2005 Hawthorne Caballeros; and he has taught at Mifflinburg High School, Lewisburg High School, Jersey Shore High School, Williamsport High School, Milton High School, and Line Mountain High School. He has also arranged for many percussion programs and has a degree in management and marketing from the University of Phoenix.

Marc Garside is the 2012 & 2013Hawthorne Caballeros Percussion Caption Head. Marc’s marching experience includes performance membership with the Caballeros and Capital Regiment Percussion sections. Marc had been teaching competitive marching percussion actively at the high school level for the past 10 years.  He served as the caption head and arranger for Shikellamy High School and currently is the caption-head and arranger at Williamsport High School in PA.  Marc has also served as arranger and consultant for multiple high schools in the central PA region, including: Shamokin, Line Mountain, and Montoursville High Schools.

For membership information or more information on the program, contact Marc Garside at mgarside83@gmail.com or Brendan Fullam at director@pennstateindoor.org.  For information on membership in the Hawthorne Caballeros, contact Mike Ryan at m.ryan@cabs.org.

About Penn State Indoor Drumline
Penn State Indoor Drumline was founded in 1999. Starting with only a few individuals looking to keep up their drumming skills throughout the winter, this small group of players soon realized that Penn State and its collection of extremely talented musicians had something to offer the world of indoor marching percussion theatre. As the years progressed, the group acquired a diverse collection of players beyond just snare, tenor, bass, and cymbals. It added mallets and auxiliary percussion, and was soon performing at high schools in the indoor percussion circuits of Pennsylvania.

In 2004, PSID opened its membership to talented percussionists that were not from Penn State. This change along with the talents of the staff and performers have contributed to 13 years of award-winning seasons, including 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2009 WGI Percussion Independent Open Class Finalists, 1999 and 2006 WGI Percussion Independent Open Class Bronze Medalists; 2007 and 2008 WGI Percussion Independent Open Class Silver Medalists; 2000 and 2001 WGI Percussion University Class Champions and the 2000 WGI Percussion Independent Open Class Champions. For more information on PSID, visit www.pennstateindoor.org.

About the Hawthorne Caballeros
The Hawthorne Caballeros, sponsored by American Legion Post #199 in Hawthorne, New Jersey are in their 66th season of competition and have amassed a remarkable host of records. They have won the DCA World Championship 9 times, the American Legion National Title 16 times, the National Dream Contest 17 times, and the New Jersey State American Legion Title 43 times. They have completed 5 undefeated seasons, consecutively in 1984 and 1985. In 1989, during DCA's 25th Anniversary season, fans voted the Caballeros their favorite Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of all time. In May 2000 the Caballeros were inducted into the Library of Congress as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacy program. Visit www.cabs.org for more information on the Caballeros.