Marching Band Leadership and Color Guard Camp

Campers must be attending grades 9-12 in the ’25-’26 school year AND have at least one year of high school marching band experience.

Open to beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

No audition is required.

Florida State is committed to providing a quality education to all qualified students and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. Please contact our office to discuss any questions or accommodations that may need to be made for your camper at least three weeks prior to the start of camp.

Overnight Campers: $544.00 which includes

• a non-refundable deposit of $100.00
• tuition
• housing
• three meals per day (meals begin with dinner on check-in day and ending with lunch on check-out day)

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by June 1. Campers registering after May 1 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Cancellation and Refund Policy.

Scholarship and other third-party payments can be accepted.  Please contact our office if you need assistance with having a scholarship or school booster check applied to your account.

Overnight Campers: $372.00 which includes

• a non-refundable deposit of $100.00
• tuition

Meal plans are available as optional add-on purchases.  Meal plans are non-refundable once purchased:

• Day Camper Lunch Package:  $35/week.  Learn more
• Day Camper Dinner Package:  $35/week. Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch & Dinner Package:  $70/week.  Learn more

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by June 1. Campers registering after May 1 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Cancellation and Refund Policy.

Scholarship and other third-party payments can be accepted.  Please contact our office if you need assistance with having a scholarship or school booster check applied to your account.

Check-in takes place on Sunday, June 28.

There will be a final event called the Pass-In-Review at 1:30pm on Friday, July 3. 

Check-out takes place on FRIDAY following the Pass-In-Review.

See below for full camp schedules.

Detailed information about check-in, check-out, and everything in between will be available in the Camp Handbook

SAVE YOUR SPOTS NOW!

We hope that you will be sending your Marching Band Leadership students to our camp this summer. Even if you don’t know WHO you will be sending yet, you can reserve spaces for your students now, and when you select your students we will help get them registered.

2026 Guidelines

• Reservations are only for schools/organizations who will be paying on behalf of the students. Students whose families will be paying for them to attend need to register for camp through the regular registration process.
• All students will automatically receive the corresponding Matching Discount. FSU Summer Music Camps will contribute $1.00 for every $1.00 that an accredited organization awards the student up to a maximum of $100.00.
• A maximum of 8 reserved spots per school are allowed, but please only reserve the number of spots you will truly need. If you reserve more spots than you end up needing, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can offer the spot to campers on our waitlist.
• Names and contact information for the students you select must be sent to our office by June 1.
• Reservations are for band students only. Sorry, but we are unable to take reservations for Color Guard this year.

How To Reserve Spots:

1. Fill out this google form.
2. Within 48 hours you will receive an email confirming your spots, or letting you know that you have been placed on a priority wait list.  Reservations will be filled in the order they are received. If we reach capacity, your group will be placed on a wait list. Submitting the google form does not guarantee spots.
3. In the spring, when you have the names of the students who will be attending for your school, send an email with their name, email, and phone number to musiccamps@fsu.edu. Our office will work with their parent/guardian to create their family account and officially register the student. Deadline to submit names is June 1 or the spots will be released.
4. Once all students are registered, we will provide you with an invoice. Payment can be made for your group by check or credit card. Payments are due by June 15.

Band Directors that have already selected their students to attend camp should instruct the students to go online and register as soon as possible. Band Directors CAN NOT create an account and register all of their students under it.

REGISTRATION

Registration is done online and opens on January 20, 2026 at 9:00am EST.  You will be able to register for multiple camps/sessions at the same time. A parent/guardian is required to complete the registration.

Only the tuition (day-camper) price will show when you begin to register.  The registration form will ask you if you want to be an overnight camper, and if you answer “yes” it will automatically add the housing and meals to your cart.

All registrants must pay the $100.00 non-refundable deposit when registering.  Families can choose to pay the balance in full when registering OR enroll in a monthly payment plan for the balance. Payment plans require a monthly auto-draft and must be paid in full by May 26. Campers registering after May 26 must pay in full at the time of registration.

Click here for the Payment, Cancellation and Refund Policy.

POST-REGISTRATION CAMPER FORMS

Once you have paid the deposit and receive a registration confirmation, you will be able to fill out your required camper forms. These forms include a medical information form (no physical required), consent forms, and more.  These forms should be completed as soon as possible, but are due no later than one month prior to the start of your camp.

WAIT LISTS

If there is a wait list when you attempt to register, you can opt to be placed on the wait list. No deposit is required to be placed on the wait list. If a space becomes available you will be notified automatically by the Active registration system via an email from Support@Active.com, and you will have 48 hours to accept or pass.   Please add Support@Active.com to your contacts so that the wait list offer does not go to your junk mail.

Optional Add-Ons:

There are several add-on options available during the registration process.  You can add any of these options to your registration during the initial registration process, or anytime up to two-weeks before the start of your camp.

• Overnight Campers:  Extra Nights of Housing in the dorm:  $75.00 Learn more
• Overnight Campers: Shuttle Service: $30. Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch Package**:  $35 (non-refundable)  Learn more
• Day Camper Dinner Package**:  $35/week (non-refundable). Learn more
• Day Camper Lunch & Dinner Package**: $70/week (non-refundable). Learn more
• Commuter Parking Passes**: $TBA/week (non-refundable). Learn more

**Lunch packages, dinner packages, and parking passes are non-refundable once purchased**

We would love for you to attend multiple camp sessions!  Campers who plan to attend multiple weeks of camp have the choice to stay overnight in the dorm on the night in between ($75.00) or to check-out on Saturday and then check back in for the second week on Sunday.  Though we will try to keep you in the same room if possible, it is NOT guaranteed to have the same room during all sessions even if you book an extra night.  If you are required to switch rooms, counselors will be available to assist moving your belongings.  If you do stay in the dorm, you will be brought to the check-in for the second camp on Sunday, by the counselors, along with all of the other campers that stayed over.  You can sign-up for an extra night during the initial registration process, or anytime up to two-weeks before the start of your first camp.Read more about Extra Nights of Housing.

Campers must bring their instrument with them to camp – preferably their marching instrument. Drummers should bring sticks only. Instruments will not be used outdoors to march – they will be used in the afternoons, indoors, for score analysis and other small group work.  If you do not own your own instrument, we suggest speaking with your music teacher about borrowing your school instrument for the duration of camp.

Campers may also wish to bring conducting gloves and baton if they have them but it is not required.

Color guard should bring their flag/rifle.

Campers will also need to bring a folding music stand and their instrument accessories.    A full packing list will be provided in the camp handbook.

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