Does the Yale Concert Band go on tour?
The Yale Concert Band has the distinction of being the first United States college concert band to tour Europe, that being in 1956 with Director of Bands and Professor Emeritus Keith L. Wilson. Since that time, the Concert Band has completed twenty concert tours to Puerto Rico, California, Florida, Texas, the Netherlands, Germany, France (twice), Switzerland, England (three times), Denmark, Bermuda (twice), Japan, Italy, Ireland, Spain and the north coast of Africa, and Austria and the Czech Republic. The Yale Concert Band toured Brazil in the summer of 2007 and is currently in the planning stages for a summer 2009 tour.
