Friday, May 2, 2025
  Arts, Community, Around Campus

By News and Internal Communications

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – MAY 1, 2025 – Students, ages 12-17, are invited to showcase their musical talents at the second Vaquero Youth Band Camp this summer, June 23-27, in Edinburg.

This five-day camp, hosted by the UTRGV Marching Band, welcomes Rio Grande Valley music students in the areas of wind, percussion and colorguard.

Taking place at the Performing Arts Complex, the camp aims to enhance musical skills through instruction from award-winning faculty while fostering connections among passionate music students.

David Rios, program coordinator for the Marching Band and part-time lecturer for music business, said he looks forward to building on last year’s camp success, which included more than 25 campers.

“We are adding so much more this year, including guest clinicians, sectionals, colorguard and more,” he said.

Campers are required to bring their own woodwind and brass instruments, or percussion sticks and mallets.

The early registration fee is $250 with the deadline of May 15. A $50 late registration fee will apply after May 21. Daily lunch will be provided as part of the camp.

To register for the Vaquero Youth Band Camp, visit http://utrgvarts.tiny.us/bandcamp2025.



ABOUT UTRGV

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine and a School of Podiatry, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.

UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, Weslaco, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015; the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016, and the School of Podiatric Medicine in the fall of 2022.