WGI Hall of Fame: Class of 2010
March 5, 2010
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Don Click - Katy, TX
Don Click’s foresight, talent and leadership have established one of the most consistently creative and successful Independent World Percussion ensembles: The Music City Mystique. Don is a co-founder of the Music City Mystique Youth Organization and served as their Executive Director until 2006.
Don’s leadership served as a model for which several other Independent World ensembles would follow in hopes to be as artistic, effective, competitive and consistent as the Music City Mystique. Don’s passion for teaching has rubbed off on many of his students. He teaches that part of instructing is all about giving others back the experience you had as a performer. It is this mindset that has helped produce a first rate organization on and off the floor.
With Winter Guard International, Don has been a consistent contributor while holding roles with the Percussion Advisory Board, Percussion Steering Committee, Board of Directors and the Executive Board. He is among a small handful of people whose vision clearly shaped the direction of the indoor activity in a time when it was evolving quickly. Don also served as President of the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit where he was the Percussion Coordinator where he helped build the indoor percussion activity at a local level.
Don currently lives in Katy, TX with his wife, Stephanie and two children, Avery and Piper where he is the Director of Marketing for Pro-Mark Corporation. He continues to serve on the Music City Mystique Board of Directors as well as the design team. He has taught and continues to arrange and consult at various high schools throughout the nation and is a sought after judge both for marching band competitions as well as winter percussion shows.
Daniel Fyffe Indianapolis, IN
Daniel’s commitment to excellence, combined with his dedication to his students helped him lead the Franklin Central Percussion Symphony to six WGI Scholastic Concert titles in seven years. Franklin Central would return to the floor attempting to exceed the standards they set the year prior, sweeping audiences to their feet before their shows had even finished.
As their director and arranger, Daniel helped change the way people think about WGI Concert Percussion. The Franklin Central Percussion Symphony went on to increase awareness of WGI Percussion through performances at PAS, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference, and the Indiana Music Educator’s State Convention.
Daniel was instrumental in developing the percussion activity on a local level as a founding member of the Indiana Percussion Association and has served as Secretary and President. Daniel is a member of the Winter Guard International Percussion Advisory Board, the Percussive Arts Society, the Indiana Music Educators Association. Daniel has been a huge positive influence on WGI all over the country in lectures, seminars, judging clinics as well as his educational articles which have been published in School Band and Orchestra Magazine as well as WGI FOCUS.
Daniel Fyffe currently resides in Indianapolis, IN where he serves as the Director of Bands for Franklin Central High School. Not only known for his energetic approach with his students, many of his arrangements, solos and ensembles are published by Drop6 Media.
Mike Jackson, Orange County, CA
Mike Jackson’s contributions to WGI, both on and off the floor, are unparalleled. Mike has led multiple groups to success across all three classifications in both Scholastic and Independent divisions including Mission Viejo HS & Riverside Community College. In fourteen years of bringing ensembles to the competition, Mike has an unprecedented eighteen medals at the WGI World Championships and Mission Viejo HS, has been a consistent World Class finalist for the past 14 years.
Even more impressive than the number of successful groups Mike has worked with, is the incredible quality of design and performance his teams have exhibited on the floor year after year. Nation-wide, Mike is regarded as one of the indoor percussion trendsetters. Mike’s programs have been some of the most memorable, esteemed, and epitomized shows our activity has ever seen. His work as inspired countless designers, arrangers and educators.
In addition to his contribution in performance and design standards, Mike has been an instrumental part of the growth and development indoor percussion has experienced in the last decade. Mike has faithfully served on the WGI Percussion Advisory board since 1996, and has served on the Percussion Steering Committee and the Board of Directors as well. He was one of the visionaries and founders of the Southern California Percussion Alliance, which now boasts over 80 indoor percussion ensembles. Southern California has grown to be a “hot-bed” of creative and performing talent that continues to set new standards at WGI finals each year.
Mike currently resides in Orange County, CA with his wife Jenny and their two children, Nicolas & Mallory. Currently, Mike is also the percussion caption head at the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps.
Andy Sanders Southhaven, MS
After starting his WGI career as a judge, Andy Sanders went on to serve indoor percussion in a much larger capacity. For the past 10 years, Andy has served as the Percussion Judge Coordinator for Winter Guard International.
Andy has worked tirelessly to expand the WGI Percussion judge roster, organize judge assignments, and attend to the general well being of all those involved in this competitive activity. With roots as a band director, Andy’s emphasis is always on education and how he can continue to make this activity provide the best competitive system possible.
His commitment to provide the participants the very best experience is always top priority and has shown in every minute of his involvement with WGI. His genuine integrity, concern, passion and care for the educational process have made WGI percussion a stronger activity.
Andy currently serves as the Director of Bands in Southaven, Mississippi. Under his direction, the Southaven Band Program has become one of the pre-eminent band programs in the state of Mississippi. Andy has also served as an adjudicator/clinician for concert band, marching band and percussion competitions throughout the United States.
