I am pretty excited about this opportunity! The grade 3 work I am writing for this project is inspired by North Carolina’s state song, The Old North State. Join the Consortium! HURRAH!
Currently blown away! Four of my works have made the 2021 BANDWORLD Top 100! Two from RWS Music Company's Custom Concert Series: Carol of the Boombuckets Where the Wild Things Dance Two from Claude T. Smith Publications Flexible Ensemble Series: Declaration Overture (Claude T. Smith) Emperata Overture (Claude T. Smith)
Information about the premier of Mustangs Rebel the Knight of Wolves at the 2015 Lincoln All-County Band Concert.
I am pretty excited about this opportunity! The grade 3 work I am writing for this project is inspired by North Carolina’s state song, The Old North State. Join the Consortium! HURRAH!

Ghillie Dhu (Gill-e Dew) “Elf of the Forest” is inspired by a creature from Scottish Folklore. A lonely male fairy, the Ghillie Dhu was usually friendly and quiet, but occasionally wild in character. This creature was also known to have a gentle piety to children. The Ghillie Dhu lived in a birch wood within the Gairloch village and near the shores of Loch a During of the north-west highlands of Scotland. The Ghillie Dhu is depicted as dark haired and clothed in leaves of moss. Typically, the Ghillie Dhu did not like it when people would enter his forest yet was helpful to children that might be lost.
Premiered Friday, February 1st, 2019 by the
Limestone College High School Honor Band
Gaffney, South Carolina
Published by RWS Music Company and distributed by C. L. Barnhouse