Get on the Bus!
Music for All has developed routes from areas of the country with buses already scheduled to transport students to the Summer Symposium. There is limited room on these buses for students and directors to “Get on the Bus.”
Current Bus Routes:
Alabama
Captain: Jerell Horton
School: Vestavia Hills High School
Email: jhorton47@bellsouth.net (Best method of contact)
Phone: 205-999-1892
Route: I-65 N to Nashville, TN to Bowling Green & Louisville, KY to Indianapolis to Ball State University
Illinois – Full Week Camp Arrival
Captain: Quinlan & Fabish Music Company
Phone: 630-654-4111
Email: info@QandF.com
*Bus provided free-of-charge to riders*
Departure Date: Sunday, June 24
Pickup Location
Quinlan & Fabish
Burr Ridge (IL) Location
6827 High Grove Blvd.
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Peoria, IL
Captain: Kidder Music Company
Phone: 309-692-4040
Email: brian@kiddermusic.com
Departure Date: Sunday, June 24
Pickup Location
Kidder Music Company
7728 N Crestline Dr.
Peoria, IL 61615
Kansas – Full Week Camp Arrival
Captain: Chad Coughlin
School: Olathe South High School
Phone: 913-209-4330
Email: ccoughlinos@olatheschools.org
Route: I-70 E from Kansas City to Indianapolis to Ball State University
Missouri
Captain: Ted Keck
School: South Harrison High School
Phone: 660-425-8051
Email: tkeck@shr2.k12.mo.us (Best Contact)
Route: The Bethany Bus will depart from Bethany, MO which is at the intersection of US-136 and I-35 in Northwest Missouri. Stops to pick up people along the route can be arranged. The bus will proceed down I-35 to Cameron and then travel on US-36 to Hannibal. Upon entering Illinois, the bus will take I-72E to I-57 (Exit 182B) to I-74 (Exit 237A) to IN-32.
Omaha, NE
Captain: Darren Myers
School: Millard South High School
Phone: 402-715-8525
Email: ddmyers@mpsomaha.org
Route: I-80 from Omaha, NE through Iowa to Indianapolis to Ball State University
South Carolina – Leadership Weekend arrival
Captain: Glenn Price
School: Lugoff-Elgin High School
Phone: 803-438-8012
Email: glenn.price@kcsdschools.net
Route:
- Lugoff, SC to Columbia, SC I-20
- Columbia, SC to Asheville, NC 1-26
- Asheville, NC to Knoxville, TN I-40
- Knoxville, TN to Lexington, KY I-75
- Lexington, KY to Cincinnati, OH I-75
- Bypass Around Cincinnati, OH I-275
- Cincinnati, OH (toward Indianapolis) to Greensburg, IN I-74
- Greensburg, IN to Muncie, IN Hwy 3
Directors: interested in being a bus captain?
Check out the benefits of becoming a bus captain and the tools offered to help make this a streamlined process.
Attend the Summer Symposium Free: Extended discounts for Bus Captains
As a bus captain, you’ll organize a bus with your students and promote the bus with Music for All’s help and marketing assistance to students from other schools.
As a bus captain, you will:
- Attend the Summer Symposium at no cost (up to a $667 value!)
- Increase your student count! Count each registered and paying student camper on your bus as one of your students, entitling you to one free student or director slot for each 12 paying campers on the bus.
- Offer students our lowest enrollment fees (with deposit of $250 made by March 31 to hold the Super Saver; by May 21 to hold the Early Bird fee.)
- The Music for All office is also here to help you and has created a Bus Captain Kit to get you started!
- The Bus Captain Kit exists to help you navigate through the process of planning and managing your bus to the Summer Symposium. The items of the kit are below, available for download. You can also request that the kit be mailed to you be emailing Jess (Skogh) Hjellming, Participant Relations Coordinator at jessica.s@musicforall.org
