Colonel John Bourgeois conducted the 2005 ACB Convention Band.   For seventeen years Colonel Bourgeois served as the 25th Director of the United States Marine Band, "The President's Own". During that time he also served as Music Advisor to the White House.  

Since his retirement in 1996, Colonel Bourgeois remains busy as a frequent guest conductor, is a visiting professor at Loyola University New Orleans in a chair endowed in his name, and continues to produce excellent wind band arrangements and editions known as "The Bourgeois Editions."

The 2005 ACB Convention Band was a tremendous success under Colonel Bourgeois' leadership.

 

The Convention Band Program included:                     People Who Live In Glass Houses, J.P.Sousa/J.Bourgeois,                                                                                                Northwind March,  W.Paris Chambers/J.Bourgeois                                                                       Galop from Genevieve de Brabant,   J.Offenbach/transcribed Bourgeois,                                                                                               Elsa's Procession To The Cathedral, R.Wagner/J.Bourgeois,                     The Gallant Seventh, Sousa/Bourgeois                     King Carneval, Bohumir Kryl (Carl Fischer Edition)  Euphonium Solo with Band                     The Last Spring, Grieg/J.Curnow                                                             Featured Soloist with the Convention Band: Master Gunnery Sergeant Philip Franke Principal Euphonium with the United States Marine Band (Quincy, IL native)