The Augustana Symphonic Band (formerly the Augustana Concert Band) will celebrate its 150th anniversary during a weekend-long celebration Nov. 22-24, 2024. Established in 1874 as the Augustana ...

Jim Lambrecht has a yen for Japan, and after a number of visits, the Augustana College Symphonic Band director will take his students with him on tour starting Friday.

The longtime Augustana band director did not know nearly three dozen of his former students were waiting in the wings, instruments in hand, ready to be directed by Ammann one last time before he ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — After the pandemic forced Augustana band students to pack up their instruments and cancel a tour to Japan, that once-in-a-lifetime chance is coming to fruition this spring.

An Augustana College Band member from Le Mars is safely out of Egypt. Twenty-one-year-old Jeff Burwitz, the son of Don and Linda Burwitz, is a junior who plays low brass with the Sioux Falls ...