MEET OUR STAFF

Charles Walley
Director

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BSGK JR. Corps - 1966-1973
BSGK Alumni - 1991-Present
Director - 2015-Present
Art Farrell
PDE - Past Director Emirates

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

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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

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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

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Colleens - 1968-1971
BSGK - 1971-1972
BSGK - 1997-Present
Ed Golat
Assistant

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

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Troop 102 D&B Corps in Newark - 1957-1959
Woodsiders of Newark, N.J.- 1959-1965
Hawthorne Cabs - 1965
N.Y. Skyliners from 1966-1969 1979,1980
BSGK Alumni - 2004 - present
Joanne Ross
Color Guard Liason

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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

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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

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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

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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.