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2023 Important Dates

August 21st, 2022: RMPA Pre-Season Meeting

September 19th, 2022: WGI Championships Registration Opens

September 26th, 2022: WGI Regional Registration Opens (Excluding Regional A)

September 28th, 2022: WGI Regional Registration Opens for Regional A

October 2022: RMPA Host Applications Open

November 5th, 2022: RMPA-CON

November 7th, 2022: RMPA Host Applications Due

November 28th 2022: RMPA Registration Opens

December 15th 2022: WGI Registration Fees Increase

December 16th, 2022: RMPA Registration Closes

February 3rd, 2023: WGI Regional Registration Closes

February 18th: RMPA Regular Season Show #1 @ TBA

March 4th: RMPA Regular Season Show #2 @ TBA

March 11th: WGI Regional @ TBA

March 18th: RMPA Regular Season Show #3 @ TBA, Virtual Available

March 25th - All State Weekend

April 1st: RMPA Regular Season Show #4 @ TBA

April 8th: RMPA State Championships Prelims @ TBA

April 15th: RMPA State Championships Finals @ Metro State University

April 20th-22nd: WGI Championships, Dayton, OH

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Mission Statement

The mission of RMPA is to provide a competitive and educational performance outlet for Colorado indoor percussion ensembles, with a continual goal of enriching the lives of young performers. RMPA commits to delivering the best venues, hosts, adjudicators, clinicians, sponsors, and volunteers in tandem with contributing to this mission.

Our Story

The Rocky Mountain Percussion Association is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit Colorado based youth organization, that was started in 1991 by a group of percussion instructors, judges and educators who were concerned about the level of percussion training and performance, primarily at the high school level. Steve Yates, Joe Bartko and Ralph Hardimon were the founders of the RMPA and along with Charles Craig formed what is now one of the nation’s premier percussion organizations of its kind. Our main focus is student motivation, educational training, and achievement through the percussion activity.

The association is the governing body of the indoor percussion activity in the Rocky Mountain region and sponsors a series of indoor percussion events, educational clinics and competitions during the winter and spring months.

These programs provide a motivational tool that can help turn non-percussionists and a typical drum section into a cohesive and entertaining percussion ensemble. The nation’s top percussion judges adjudicate all of our competitions.

Since the first event was held in 1993, the RMPA has provided competition and training for over 15,000 students, and has become one of the premier percussion organizations of its kind in the country and serves as a national model by which other organizations are administered and managed.

Winter Percussion

The Winter Percussion Activity was organized to provide a program for the many percussion students participating in a typical marching band during the fall season, but not having a comparable performance outlet during the winter and spring seasons. The traditional jazz band, concert band, wind ensemble, etc. does not involve the larger number of percussion students that a marching band requires.

The first units participating in the percussion activity were primarily from scholastic marching units, utilizing both a battery and pit ensemble in a setting that limited the amount of marching and showmanship. Within a few short years, the number of independent organizations participating in the competitions increased, and the performance venue was enlarged to allow for more development of the visual and theatrical potential of the activity. Soon thereafter, traditional “concert” percussion ensembles were included as an additional performance outlet for student percussionists preferring that genre.

The Rocky Mountain Percussion Association operates under the rules and guidelines of Winter Guard International.

Rocky Mountain Percussion Association

3360 W 98th Pl Unit B

Wesminster, CO, 80031

2021-2022 Board of Directors

President - Lauren Maxwell ~ lauren@rmpa.org
Vice President - Alex Hinds ~ ahinds@rmpa.org
Treasurer - Klifford Holly ~ kliff@rmpa.org
Secretary - Scott Wilson ~ scott@rmpa.org
Education Director - Peter Lucero ~ pete@rmpa.org
Ensemble Relations Director - Joe Hills ~ joe@rmpa.org
Contest Liaison - Lisa Crider ~ lisa@rmpa.org

2021-2022 Foundation Team

Financial Secretary - Lyndee Montemayor ~ lyndee@rmpa.org
Merchandise Manager - Terry Hills ~ terry@rmpa.org

Founding Members (circa 1991)

Steve Yates
Ralph Hardimon
Joe Bartko
Charles Craig

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2022 RMPA Member Handbook. This document will be a must-read for all directors, instructors, and performers.

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