Gold Spike Percussion

📣 Shoutout to our 2024 members representing Gold Spike Percussion in DCI 📣 Catch Ethan and Gael with and Lucas with at a show near you!

It's pride month! 🌈

We're honored to once again team up with March Proud and WGI/DCI ensembles in the intermountain region to celebrate the diversity of our marching arts family and support some of our most marginalized youth. This is an amazing way for us all to show our pride, while making a real impact in our community.

Learn more about it below, and check out some of the cool March Proud swag! All proceeds from March Proud swag sales go to Encircle, which provides essential mental health services to LGBTQ+ youth, young adults, and families.

Gold Spike Perc • Progress - Unisex — March Proud The 100% cotton men's classic tee will help you land a more structured look. It sits nicely, maintains sharp lines around the edges, and goes perfectly with layered streetwear outfits. Plus, it's extra trendy now! • 100% cotton • Sport Grey is 90% cotton, 10% polyester • Ash

Gold Spike Percussion is excited to announce that we have teamed up with Apex Independent Color Guard for the 2024 Utah Pride Festival! The Utah Pride Parade will take over downtown SLC on Sunday June 2 @ 10AM. If you'd like to join us in support of the Utah LGBTQ+ Community and allies, sign up now.

https://forms.gle/B3ATH2xFE4wAD9aJA

Rock your March Proud gear, bring a drum, and help make some noise!

CYMBALS 🥰 Thanks and for helping our cymbal section look and sound the BEST! Check out for some awesome lot vids, including these rock stars @ https://youtu.be/NAbbDMkkshY

Wanna be part of this AMAZING section?! Sign up now! Packets and audition dates expected late summer.

2025 Interest Form: https://forms.gle/YBQx7nNCDyMEnuup9

Prelims ✅ 83.475

Our season is over, but we will never forget how awesome it felt to perform The Bone Collector for the world. Gold Spike made history for itself in 2024, and we can’t wait to come back swinging next year. Thank you for the incredible support and love, we couldn’t be rockstars without you. 💛💙

Oh yeah 😎 Lot time at Truist Arena!

IMPA PIO Champions - 86.3
Our trailers are officially on their way to Dayton, OH! We meet our equipment in a few days and perform in PIO Prelims @ Truist Arena on Thursday 4/18 12:25PM EST. Tune in on FloMarching and cheer us on if you can’t make it to Cincinnati!

We can’t wait to perform at prelims and finals tomorrow! We hope you can join us at Weber High School to cheer on all the amazing ensembles. This is your last chance to see The Bone Collector in person before we fly to World Championships in Dayton, OH - don’t miss out!

AGEOUT ALERT || Nathanael Quimby
*LEGACY MEMBER*

> Section: Snare
> Years with GSP: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
> Favorite WGI Show: Rhythm X "Touch"
Favorite GSP Show: The Bone Collector
Future plans: Finish Bachelor of Arts in Music at Weber State, will continue to pursue composition and design indoor shows.
> Nathanael's favorite thing about GSP? “I love that I’ve been able to have a program that changed me for the better and inspired excellence coming out of Highschool in 2019. It’s taught me so many life skills that I’ve been able to grow because of. Gold Spike has been my weekends in the fall for 6 years and I feel that I’ve been equipped to be able to pass on this knowledge to other students in the future. Thank you for being my family. ”

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS || Saturday April 13, 2024 @ Weber High School

Want free admission to IMPA Championships? All we need is a few hours of your time to keep the show running smoothly and support all the incredible groups! Use the link below to sign up. If you're one of our supporters, be sure to put Gold Spike Percussion as the group you're representing.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4BAAAE29A0F4CF8-48949286-impa?useFullSite=true #/

AGEOUT ALERT || Chance Taylor

> Section: Tenor
> Years with GSP: 2022, 2023, 2024
> Favorite WGI Show: RCC "Listen" or Pulse "The Uninvited"
> Favorite GSP Show: The Bone Collector
> Future plans: Move out of Utah and live that happy life.
> Chance’s favorite thing about GSP? “The dope staff I get to work with and every member that I’ve been honored to perform with the past 3 years.”

The final regular season competition is today - don’t miss it!

AGEOUT ALERT || Amber Weight

> Section: Bass Drum
> Years with GSP: 2023, 2024
> Favorite WGI Show: Rhythm X "Art Shaped Box"
> Favorite GSP Show: The Bone Collector
> Future plans: Currently in school for Business Management, Amber hopes to get a big girl job and continue helping drumlines as an instructor or volunteer.
> Amber's favorite thing about GSP? "I love how creative the show designs are and how much energy I get from performing"

Our lost and found bin looks a little different this season.

AGEOUT ALERT || Alyssa Bennett-Stoliker
AKA "The Bone Collector"

> Section: Visual Soloist
> Years with GSP: 2024
> Favorite WGI Show: Pride of Cincinnati "Preaching to the Choir" and Pulse "Brother"
> Favorite GSP Show: Hypnotic
> Future plans: Alyssa is graduating with a Bachelors in Photography (her third degree!) from Utah Valley University and hopes to work full time as a product and portrait photographer.
> Alyssa’s favorite thing about GSP? "The culture and member experience at Gold Spike is top tier. The entire ensemble, including staff, is passionate and encouraging. The staff fights for us to have a good experience and embraces members for who they are."

Day of Percussion 2024 is one for the history books! Our members had a great weekend of learning and performing. Special thanks to clinicians Shilo Stroman and Colin McNutt for helping us grow as musicians!

There’s only a few more chances to see us in Utah before we leave for WGI World Championships. Don’t miss out on The Bone Collector! Thanks to , , and for the opportunity to perform!

Join us at Riverton HS tomorrow, March 16, at Utah PAS Day of Percussion! Colin McNutt & Shilo Stroman will be with us in the main gym at 1:00PM for a clinic about orchestration, our exercise packet, and a performance of our 2024 production around 2:10PM. Colin will be on stage in the auditorium at 2:30PM with drummers from AF and GSP. Good luck to all performers - we will be cheering everyone on!

AGEOUT ALERT || Trey Thompson

> Section: Snare
> Years with GSP: 2024
> Favorite WGI Show: new to WGI - Troopers "Voracious"
> Favorite GSP Show: Handbook For the Recently Deceased or The Bone Collector
> Future plans: recently completed his Bachelors in Psychology and plans to get a Masters in Social Work to become a therapist.
> Trey’s favorite thing about GSP? “I’ve never been in a group that cares about their members as much as GSP. It honestly feels like another little family that I get to hang out with every weekend.”

What a beautiful day at the WGI SLC Regional! Next up: Utah PAS Day of Percussion at Riverton HS on March 16. Don’t miss our clinic with Shilo Stroman & Colin McNutt at 1:00PM and 2:30PM. ☠️

Check out your 2024 WGI PIO Regional Champions! Thanks to our family and friends for all the support, we had a blast today. And please send a HUGE congratulations to our friends at on their first show in Open Class!!

That’s right - we are headed to finals with a score of 81.75! Thanks for a wonderful prelims in SLC ☠️

☠️🟣 Don’t miss the tribe in action tomorrow! No ticket sales at the door - https://buytickets.at/impa

We can’t wait to show you the end of this show!! ☠️ Make sure you join us at Mountain Ridge HS on Saturday for WGI SLC. 😍

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LOT VIBEZ 😍 We have the best views for “warm” up!

Sponsor Shoutout:

We sound incredible on these beautiful Pearl Championship Carboncore Drums! 😍 Come hear the difference yourself at the WGI Salt Lake City Percussion Regional on March 9 at Mountain Ridge High School.

Our second Utah performance is tomorrow! 🟣☠️

Tickets will not be sold on site - buy them here: http://www.im-pa.org/events

You’ve got a lot of nerve texting us… ☠️

Still itching to be a part of something special? Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have immediate openings in our front ensemble. Send us an email to be part of our 2024 journey to Dayton!

New drums, who dis? This season we'll be rockin' a new Decade Maple drumset, in Satin Black Burst finish, from our friends at Pearl/Adams Marching Percussion. UV2 heads from EVANS Drumheads, and an awesome mix of Energy and Bliss series cymbals from the amazing folks at Dream Cymbals.

It's the season of giving thanks, and we just wanted to take a minute to thank these amazing companies for helping us sound our best.