CWEA Percussion Training Day
11-10-2009

The CWEA Percussion Training Day will be held on Saturday, December 5 at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, SC from 1 to 5:30pm in the Band Room.

The event will be offered to CWEA percussion students, unit directors, instructors as well as current and prospective judges at no charge.

We are pleased to announce that the facilitator for this training event will be Jody Dunwoody from Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Dunwoody will discuss show design and concepts, understanding unit classification, the WGI scoring sheets, rehearsal techniques and much more. His list of accomplishments are listed below.

NOTE - Although the Percussion Training Day will be on December 5, all Percussion Directors/Instructors will need to be in attendance for the November 21 Fall Meeting with the Body to vote on rules/by-laws, the future of the CWEA as an independent circuit and being part of the first drawing for those units who have paid by this date.

Jody Dunwoody has been a percussion instructor, designer and adjudicator for over 17 years. He has taught at numerous high schools and colleges throughout the southeastern United States including the WGI World Finalist Tate HS from Pensacola, Florida as well as Madison Central HS from Madison, Mississippi. Jody was a marching member of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps in 1992 when they captured the DCI Division II World Championship as well as winning the high percussion award. Jody went on to become a staff member with Southwind the following year, as well as a staff member with the Suncoast Sound Drum & Bugle Corps in 1994.

Jody has judged for organizations such as the Indiana Percussion Association, the Southern California Percussion Alliance, the Gulf Coast Color Guard & Percussion Circuit, the Rocky Mountain Percussion Association, the Loiusiana Color Guard & Percussion Circuit, as well as adjudicating for Winter Guard International. He has been a member of the WGI Percussion Advisory Board as well as a member of the Percussion Steering Committee for WGI. Jody was named to the Gulf Coast Color Guard and Percussion Circuit Hall of Fame in the spring of 2008. He is currently an endorsed artist/educator for Innovative Percussion Sticks and Mallets as well as Pearl Drums. Jody presently lives in Florence, Mississippi and works at Ridgeland HS where he is the director of percussion and teaches social studies.

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