MEET OUR STAFF – Golden Knights

Charles Walley

Director

BSGK JR. Corps - 1966-1973
BSGK Alumni - 1991-Present
Director - 2015-Present

Art Farrell

PDE - Past Director Emirates

Continentals - 1964-1968
BSGK - 1969-1971
BSGK - 1991- Current
Director - 2008-2015
BSGK Drum Major 2016- Current

Lou Brigando

Assistant Director

Pre GK - Bronx Kingsmen, Long Island City Saints, and a church fife, drum and bugle corps in Queens.
BSGK part of 64 season ...living in Queens I couldn't keep it up.
BSGK Senior corps in 1974-1975
BSGK Alumni 1992 - Present
Westfield Community Band - 1992-2015

Joe Ross

Secretary / Treasurer

BSGK - Jr. Corps -1968,1969,1972
BSGK - Alumni Corps - 1990 - Present
BSGK Senior Corps - 1975
Falcon Cadets - 1974
CW Townsmen - 1961-1967

Audrey Rappe-Farrell

Communications / Logistics

Colleens - 1968-1971
BSGK - 1971-1972
BSGK - 1997-Present

Ed Golat

Assistant

Staten Island Sea Cadets 1959-1960
Staten Island Lawmen 1960-1966
BSGK - 1994 - Present

Joanne Ross

Color Guard Liason

C-W Townsmen 1968-1972
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights 1972
Polish Falcon Cadets 1974-1975
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights Alumni Corps 2021-present

Brian Brown

Quartermastaer

1959-1964 Union Beach Firesiders, soprano,
1965 1967 Bayshore Buckaneers, soprano
1967 BSGK Fall only (did not wear uniform)
2008 BSGK - Present BSGK Alumni

Bill Moore

Brass Instructor

Competing Corps - Playing/Marching:
Paterson Lamplighters (bari), Hawthorne Muchachos (bari)

Instruction/Arrangements:
Belleville Imperial Guardsmen, Paterson Lamplighters, Hamilton Sea Cadets

Alumni Corps - Playing/Marching:
Holy Name/Garfield Cadets (bari, contra), Melrose Blackhawks (sop, bari), Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights (mello, bari, contra), New York Skyliners (mello, bari, contra), St. Rita’s Brassmen (bari, contra), Music Express (bari), Goodfellow AFB (fh), St. Kevin’s Emerald Knights (bari), Brooklyn United (bari) Archer Epler Musketeers (bari), NY Skyliners Mini Corps (bari), NY Skyliners Alumni Mini Corps (bari), Lambertville Volunteers (bari), Legends of Drum Corps (bari)

Instruction/Arrangements:
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights, NY Skyliners, NY Skyliners Alumni Mini Corps, Legends of Drum Corps, Holy Name/Garfield Cadets, St. Rita’s Brassmen

Inductions:
NJ Drum Corps Hall of Fame, Buglers Hall of Fame, Humanitarian of the Year, Mass. Drum Corps Hall of Fame

Tom Terreri

Percussion Instructor

Started in Fife and Drum at age 8
St. Lucy's Cadets; 67, 68, 69
BSGK; 1970
Currently performing with two Fife and Drum Corps and three D&B Alumni Corps.