Key West Community Band and Key West Drum & Dance
About Us
The Key West Community Band was formed in 2024 to bring a concert band to the area for local adults to get involved in playing again, performing for the community and charitable events, and to create a family like culture for those who choose to participate. We want to bring joy through notes to our area! We will play classical, jazz, pop, modern, patriotic, and other genres of music sure to tug on the heart strings of all our listeners. The group was founded by Mrs. Rosie who also founded the Key West Drum & Dance group for teens to have a positive activity to be involved in through rhythm and movement to create something powerful and exciting.
Practices are held on Tuesday evenings at the Moose Lodge in Key West, with the Drum & Dance group rehearsing from 6-7pm and the Key West Community Band rehearsing from 7-8pm. Participation is open to all adults for the Key West Community Band regardless of level.... so retirees, veterans, and ANY adult who just wants a great group to be apart of and play again.... dust off those old instruments and join us! Participation in the Key West Drum & Dance group is open to any teen who wants something positive to be apart of, regardless of skill. They do not have to be an experienced drummer or dancer to participate, but parental permission is required. Please come join the group!
Meet the band director
Mrs. Rosie graduated from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, with a Minor degree in Music and a Minor degree in Biology. She received her Master of Science degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Walden University in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2018.
Growing up, she began her music studies at the early age of 8 as a clarinetist until high school, where she also played the Eb clarinet as a soloist and learned the flute in her early years. Later in her high school years, she transitioned to brass instruments, marching trombone and the mellophone as a soloist. She played in various all-city and all-state bands throughout middle and high school earning her numerous awards and accolades.
While attending Coastal Carolina University for music Mrs. Rosie concentrated on percussive studies, performing in the marching band on the drumline, the steel band ensemble, the jazz band ensemble on vibraphone as well as a flute soloist, the symphonic band as the timpanist and general percussionist, the world percussion group on djembes, congas, and bongos, and and in the percussion ensemble as the xylophone soloist and general percussionist playing the marimba, bass drum, rhythm instruments, and occasional snare drum. She received the award for the "Spirit of the Drumline" for her exciting energy she brought to the group. She was the Head of Public Relations and the Director of Music as a Delta Omicron Officer during her attendance there.
After graduation, Mrs. Rosie was a percussionist and guest conductor for the Pawley's Island Concert Band in Pawley's Island, South Carolina for many years of her adult life. She also played as a guest percussionist for the Women's Air Force Band in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She has been recorded as a back up singer for a Virginia Beach hip hop artist's CD, was a local television host in Myrtle Beach , SC, and has been a back up dancer for several artists performing in the Myrtle Beach area. She now resides in beautiful Key West, and founded the Key West Community Band as well as the Key West Drum & Dance group for teens.
