Bands compete for recognition, serenade at home games, and march in community parades. Everyone knows that. But the band experience is so much more. Band members also learn how to identify and sort out differences, compromise with one another and work together as a team for the common good in what is both a safe space and structured environment. So, yes, Bands are about playing great music together but, Band and especially the Band Travel Experience is also a roadmap into adulthood.
It’s with this view that exceptional educational group travel companies, like Students On Broadway (SBNYC) have a mission of creating a unique opportunity for young musicians to experience the life-enhancing excitement of Band Travel. It’s an awesome responsibility and one that TEAM SBNYC doesn’t take lightly.
Traveling to large cities, like New York, where the environment is a crowed 24/7 fast-paced hustle & bustle is, in most cases, “A Whole New World” effectively taking the band and its’ members outside of their comfort zone.
SBNYC’s collaborative approach to custom crafting a superior band travel experiences takes many factors into account. Special occasions, Director requests & expectations, chaperone tolerance for environmental stress, just to name a few. Of course, these expectations are not just met in NYC, but it the other fantastic destination experiences TEAM SBNYC provides in Orlando, Washington DC, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and others.
From the time SBNYC gets its “marching orders” from the Director / Trip Planner, through arrival on the ground, there are about 20-30+ structural and nuanced iterations of the Band’s day-to-day program so that its’ members can have that truly once in a young person’s lifetime VIP Band Travel experience.