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A JMU saxophone performance major is the grand prize winner of the Petrichor International Music Competition, in the under 21 category, for his performance of Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera.

ArtWorks Gallery presents the School of Art, Design, and Art History's Annual Undergraduate Juried Show at James Madison University.

ArtWorks Gallery presents the School of Art, Design, and Art History's Annual Undergraduate Juried Show at James Madison University.

Students in James Madison University's School of Theatre and Dance performed over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in a poignant production about a present-day interracial couple and the journey to break down the barriers between them.

Students in the James Madison University Brass Band performed onstage with the Cory Band, the world's top brass band ensemble. This performance marked the first time the JMU Brass Band has played onstage with Cory Band at the Forbes Center. The two bands have performed onstage together two other times: at the 2017 Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) Brass Band Festival in Manchester, England, and during a concert tour of England and Wales by the JMU Brass Band in 2008. The South Wales-based Cory Band played at the Forbes Center in February 2016, when the JMU Brass Band had an opportunity to work with them.

Halloween week at the Forbes Center featured a cast of 12 female students in the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance's production of Vinegar Tom, a masterpiece of feminist theatre by Caryl Churchill. One of the most important and decorated contemporary playwrights, Churchill pushed gender boundaries by advocating for females in lead roles when she entered the British theatre scene in the early 1970s.

Broadway veteran Jacob Brent made his debut as faculty director, along with students, in the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance's Shakespeare musical Twelfth Night, at the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts.

The James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance is welcoming back JMU alumna and Harrisonburg native Anna-Lee Craig as the sound designer for the production of Everybody.

The James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance in partnership with JMU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) and School of Music will offer a series of free Dance for Parkinson'sclasses during select Saturdays in the spring of 2019.

Broadway actress and guest director, Nancy Anderson, along with a cast of 34 theatre, music and musical theatre students will boldly take the American musical where it has never gone before in JMUs production of Green Day's American Idiot.

The James Madison University marching band, the Marching Royal Dukes, will be marching in the 92nd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, their fourth appearance in the holiday classic. Marching 535 strong, the Marching Royal Dukes are the largest in the parade and one of only three college bands invited.

The Marching Royal Dukes have been invited to march in the inaugural parade for new Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday, January 13, 2018 in Richmond.

James Madison University's nationally recognized marching band, the Marching Royal Dukes, entered the 2016 season with 440 members. On tap for this season are performances at local high schools, a trip with the football team to Chapel Hill, a featured exhibition at the USBands National Championships in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a joint performance with the Marching Virginians at the annual Virginia Music Educators Association State Conference at The Homestead Resort in November.

The Marching Royal Dukes sent 227 members to Italy to participate in the 2014-15 New Year's Day Parade in Rome.

The James Madison University marching band, the Marching Royal Dukes, will be marching in the 87th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, their third appearance in the holiday classic. The band is the largest in the parade and one of only two college bands invited to perform.

James Madison University's nationally recognized marching band, the Marching Royal Dukes, begin their season with 485 members, the largest in their history. On tap for this season are performances at Montpelier, the estate of James Madison, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.