• Music for All announces its launch into choral programming with the National Choir Festival in 2018.
• MFA joins with National Band Association and College Band Directors National Association to create the Music Education Alliance.
• Middle School Concert Band Camp debuts at the Music for All Summer Symposium.

• Music for All National Festival expands to include an additional “Invited Stage” for concert bands.
• Music for All partners with Festivals to present Regional Concert Band Festivals across the USA.

The Music for All Summer Symposium moves to Ball State University, only the third location for the camp since 1976.

• BOA Honor Band performs before millions, January 1, in the Tournament of Roses® Parade as part of the President’s Award-winning unit created with NAMM and Sesame Street.
• The BOA Alumni Campaign reaches its fundraising goal of $250,000, raised in 81 days, prior to Feb. 28, 2009.
• Music for All debuts the Middle School National Music Festival.

• Music for All launches a new website, www.musicforall.org.
  BOA hosts a record 20 events during the fall marching band season.
• The Jazz Band of America debuts.
• The National Concert Band Festival becomes part of the newly named Music for All National Festival, which include programs for orchestras and percussion ensembles.
• 2007 Grand National Championships is the final marching event in the RCA Dome.

• BOA celebrates 30 years of Positively Life-Changing Experiences!
• BOA Honor Band performs before millions January 1 in the Tournament of Roses® Parade with more than 330 outstanding high school band members from across the nation.
• Orchestra America, a division of BOA, debuts the Honor Orchestra of America at the National Concert Band Festival.
• BOA and The Cavaliers host a two-day camp in San Antonio, TX.
  Music for All Foundation, in partnership with other organizations, works in Arkansas to secure the first legislative mandate for music and arts education for any state.
• Music for All Foundation launches “Music for All” awareness campaign and cause-related product line.

• BOA holds first Super Regional in San Antonio, TX, at the Alamodome.
• BOA opens new headquarters in historic Union Station, downtown Indianapolis.
• BOA creates the Bands of America Hall of Fame and inducts the inaugural class.
• BOA receives an invitation for the Bands of America Honor Band to perform in the 2005 Tournament of Roses® Parade.
• Music for All Foundation is founded with a mission to expand access to music and arts education programs through pioneering research, public policy and advocacy efforts.

The BOA Summer Band Symposium hits enrollment of more than 1,900 student, director, instructor and booster participants.

The Honor Band of America, conducted by H. Robert Reynolds, presents a concert tour of Japan, performing exchange concerts with top Japanese bands.

• The National Concert Band Festival moves to Indianapolis, IN.
  Percussion ensembles perform for the first time.
• The Honor Band of America travels to Europe for performances, including at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conference in Austria.
• The first BOA Regional Concert Band Festival is held at the University of North Texas.
• Yamaha Corporation of America becomes BOA’s first National Presenting Sponsor.

BOA website www.bands.org is launched.

The Summer Band Symposium expands to include the World Percussion Symposium.

• The final Summer National Championship is held at the Summer Workshop/Festival at University of Whitewater, WI.
• The first Bands of America Marching Percussion Festival is held during the Grand National Championships weekend.

Grand Nationals is held in the Pontiac (MI) Silverdome in ‘87 & ‘88.

• Grand Nationals moves to the newly completed Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis, IN.
• 1984 marks a major turning point in Bands of America’s history. Formerly part of a parent company, the organization separates to become a new, self-supporting organization renamed Bands of America, Inc. (from Marching Bands of America).
• On November 15, 1984, BOA files for not-for-profit status with the IRS.
• Scott McCormick becomes executive director.

• Tim Lautzenheiser succeeds Nick Valenziano as executive director.
• Grand Nationals held at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City in 1981, 1982 and 1983.

• First Marching Bands of America Regional Championships held.
• Dr. Nicholas Valenziano succeeds Gary Beckner as executive director.

• Bands of America is founded by Larry McCormick, as “Marching Bands of America,” a subsidiary of McCormick Enterprises, a band supplies company.
• Gary Beckner is the first executive director.