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Mr. Minick taught for 11 years at Fieldale-Collinsville High School and George Washington Carver Middle School before moving to Cary High School in NC where he taught for 19 years. Mr. Minick has taught middle school since 2019 in Lynchburg Virginia at Linkhorne Middle School and assisted at E.C. Glass High School until his selection as director at North Lincoln High School. He was a member of the 1987 World Champion Garfield Cadets and writes music arrangements for bands across North Carolina and Virginia.
Mr. Minick also judges marching band and concert bands across the region.
Christyl has helped to establish the award winning North Lincoln Percussion ensemble program at North Lincoln High School. North Lincoln Percussion has received many superior ratings under her direction and instruction including: being named the 2014 CIPA Indoor Circuit, PSA class Champions, 2015 CIPA PSA Bronze medalists and most recently the CWEA Circuit PSA 2016 Silver Medalists.
Over the past 7 years Ms. Barber has made a name for herself by writing and arranging percussion books for both the outdoor and indoor arena for a number of schools which include: North Lincoln High School, Chase High School, St. Stephens High School, East Burke High School and Gaffney High School. Over the past 3 years, Ms. Barber has been working as percussion specialist in the schools teaching beginning to advanced percussion to North Lincoln High School, North Lincoln Middle and East Lincoln Middle School students. Ms. Barber has been working as a private percussion teacher giving lessons to students year round in the Lincoln County area since 2008. Many of her students have auditioned and been accepted into honors bands, universities and other higher level performing ensembles.
Brandon has over 10 years of marching band and colorguard experience. While in high school, he marched trumpet in the marching band for four years and participated in East Lincoln Cheval winterguard for three years; making finals at World Championships in his senior year. Brandon marched in the Pride of the Mountains Marching band for three years on trumpet and one year in the colorguard.
He also had the honor of marching in the 2014 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. In the last 5 years, Brandon has marched with WCU Winterguard (2013), Reynolda Winterguard (2014), Olympic Independent (2015), and Etude World Winterguard (2016-2017).
While in high school, he marched Baritone in the marching band for four years and participated in East Lincoln Cheval Winterguard for three years; making finals at World Championships in his senior year. Brittain marched in the Pride of the Mountains Marching band for four years on Baritone. While at WCU, he had the honor of marching in the 2014 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Brittain has marched with WCU Winterguard (2013), Reynolda Winterguard (2014), Olympic Independent (2015), and Etude World Winterguard (2016-2017) and is currently the Co-Director for Metanoia Winterguard.
Andrew also currently serves as the public address announcer for the Roundtable Tournament of Bands. He can often be heard at competitions yelling encouragement to the students before and during their performance. In his eleventh year on staff he is looking forward to helping continue the tradition of excellence at North Lincoln.