Announcing the 2015-16 McGavock Band Color Guard Staff…

We would like to welcome as the new Color Guard Co-Coordinators Mrs. Mary Elise Laman and Mr. Joshua Davis (see bios below). The color guard and percussion have been working very hard throughout June in preparation for the upcoming season, which will feature them in prominent roles throughout the show titled “ON THE WAY”.   We are so excited to welcome these awesome new instructors to the McBand Family!

Mrs. Mary Elise Laman is a graduate of Goodpasture Christian School, attended 4 years of art school and holds a cosmetology license in the state of Tennessee.  During high school in 2009, she was selected for the U.S. Army All-American color guard. During and after high school, she went on to march 4 years with the Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps and one year for CorpsVets Drum and Bugle Corps. She also marched 4 years with Eklipse Winterguard out of Nashville, TN.  Mary Elise has taught at Goodpasture High School, Sycamore High School, and Signal Mountain Middle/High School. She founded the Signal Mountain winterguard and medaled in their second year. She currently instructs the colorguards at Spring Hill High School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She also choreographs for Florence High School and Southeast Whitfield High School.

Mr. Joshua Davis recieved his Bachelor or Musical Arts from Vanderbilt in 2007 and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Belmont in 2009.  Josh was the color guard and danceline director at Vanderbilt from 2005-2009.  He marched in the Madison Scouts DCI color guard in 2005 and the Eklipse and Pulse Winter Guards for several seasons.  Joshua also was the assistant color guard instructor at McGavock HS from 2004-2006 and the color guard caption head at Oakland HS in 2007.  Joshua graduated in 2003 from Morristown East High School and was the choreographer while a student.  Joshua was the principal saxophone in the Blair Wind Ensemble and also a section leader with the Vanderbilt Spirit of Gold Marching Band.