Break Ranks! with Dan Potter is a free podcast, brought to you during the fall Bands of America Championship season.
Latest Episode: BOA Break Ranks Episode 12: 11/16/11
The final days of the Bands of America Championship season have been a blur. Dan Potter takes us from the last Super Regional weekend, all the way through Grand National Finals in the season-ending edition of Break Ranks!
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Episode 12: BreakRanks12_111511.mp3 (Posted November 15, 2011)
Season-ending episode: Grand Nationals and more!
Episode 11: BreakRanks11_110411.mp3
Special Report from the Alamodome!
Episode 10: BreakRanks10_110211.mp3
Recap from BOA St. George Utah and Atlanta
Episode 9: BreakRanks9_102611.mp3
Recap of BOA Regional at Towson, MD
Episode 8: BreakRanks8_101811.mp3
BOA Super Regional at St. Louis, Regional at Akron
Episode 7: BreakRanks7_101311.mp3
Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser; Grand Nationals Student Leadership Workshop
Learn more about the Student Leadership Workshop at Grand Nationals with Tim Lautzenheiser, Fri., Nov. 11 in Indianapolis and enroll by Nov. 1 to save on the registration fee.
Episode 6: BreakRanks06_101111.mp3
(Bands of America's "triple crown" weekend: from MI, AL and TX)
Episode 5: BreakRanks05_100511.mp3
(BOA in Mason, OH; Arlington, TX, and special guest Chuck Henson)
Episode 4: BreakRanks04_093011.mp3
(A look inside 2010 Grand National Finalist Union High School, OK)
Episode 3: BreakRanks03_092711.mp3
(Bands of America Regional Champions from the September 24, 2011 shows)
Episode 2: BreakRanks02_092311.mp3
(Avon H.S., IN, 2010-2008 Grand National Champion; with director Jay Webb and instructor and orchestra director Dean Westman)
Episode 1: BreakRanks01_092111.mp3
(Pre-season interview with Music for All President and CEO, Eric Martin.)
Dan Potter has been involved in marching band and drum corps for over 30 years. He is the announcer for many Bands of America and Drum Corps International shows nationwide and hosts not only BOA's Break Ranks! podcast, but Drum Corps International's Field Pass podcast as well. Both cover the best in marching music. Dan was drum major in both high school marching band and drum corps. He has also instructed high school bands in Indiana, Texas and Oklahoma.
Dan is a veteran journalist, radio personality and talk show host. He is the recipient of numerous broadcast journalism awards, including the Radio-Television News Directors Association's Edward R. Murrow award for best radio newscast in the US and the DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism.
An accomplished amateur 'chef,' Dan is also the host of OKFoodie, a weekly cooking, food and wine show on KRMG Radio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taped in front of a studio audience, OKFoodie welcomes guest chefs who prepare several courses for the audience while discussing cooking techniques and personal kitchen stories.
