Peak Group Travel Joins Family of Partners
Peak Group Travel and USBands announce a three-year agreement to provide the highest level of travel service to the school music programs who annually attend USBands & Western Band Association (WBA) events and showcase their ensembles on the world’s finest venues.
With this announcement, Peak Group Travel will become the official travel partner of USBands and WBA and will have onsite and online presence throughout the full calendar of USBands and throughout the organization’s events and communications each year.
Peak Group Travel will play an integral role in planning and facilitating group travel to USBands and WBA events for those bands that look to create even more memorable experiences for their students. Additionally, USBands will be working closely with Peak Group Travel to create unique events and experiences incorporating performance opportunities that showcase the talents of student-performers across the country and around the world.
Beginning in the fall of 2025, Peak Group Travel will play a role in the USBands complete schedule of 128 fall marching band competitions and one dozen educational events, as well as WBA’s 25 fall marching band competitions in California. Overall, Peak Group Travel will support more than 800 music programs that participate each year throughout the combined schedules of both organizations and will be offering exclusive benefits to the 400 member schools of USBands and WBA.
"Peak Group Travel is excited for our new partnership with USBands. We're truly looking forward to using our over 30 years of experience to provide exciting, custom performance tour packages for all of the directors and participants in US Bands & WBA events around the country,” said Bruce Rickert, President/Owner of Peak Group Travel in announcing the new partnership.
USBands Executive Director, Sean King added, “Group Travel is a key component to the scholastic music experience for nearly every student-performer. We are pleased to partner with Peak Group Travel to provide excellent customer service and amazing experiences when traveling to USBands events along with school’s traditional annual trips and festivals. The team at Peak Group Travel shares our same commitment to excellence and we look forward to elevating the experience for groups when traveling regionally and nationally, exploring international opportunities and creating exciting new events and experiences.”
Since its first event in 1988, USBands has supported the development of scholastic performing ensembles through exceptional service, high-quality adjudication, and world-class venues. Over the past 37 years, USBands has expanded to include hundreds of scholastic music programs in 150+ marching band and indoor events nationwide. USBands is part of a network of pageantry arts organizations including BD Performing Arts, Western Band Association, Mid-Atlantic Indoor Network and other regional service organizations. More information on the complete portfolio of events and experiences for educators and student performers can be found at usbands.org.
For over 25 years, Peak Group Travel has been a leader in custom performance and educational tours for bands, choirs, and orchestras in the United States and abroad. With performance and educational adventures in some of the best cities in North America and beyond, educators, students and families experience exceptional customer service and unique adventures in each of our custom tours. To get started planning your next performance tour, visit www.peakgrouptravel.com.