TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Two Indiana State University music professors, together with three of their friends, will make a return trip to Thailand to pick up where they left last year - serving as musical ambassadors and educators. Indiana State professor Randy Mitchell and associate professor Brian Kilp, Daniel Kelly, former ISU music faculty member now teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi; Tim Olt, professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and Mike Bass, assistant director of bands at Pearl River Community College, Poplarville, Miss., make up the musical group The Ambassador Brass, which will tour the region June 29-July 16. Also touring in Thailand will be Brent McPike, a guitar instructor at Indiana State. Kilp has traveled and studied extensively in Thailand. Tour veterans Mitchell and Kelly are joined by two...
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