Louis D'Amico

BY ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Hillside School's Drums of Thunder will appear on NBC's The Today Show tomorrow, July 4. The corps' appearance will include band director Louis D'Amico giving a drum lesson to the show's hosts and some of the guests...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Drums of Thunder started out 35 years ago as a small drum corps affiliated with Hillside’s performing arts program. Since then, they have been a routine sight at Montclair events, and at big-ticket shows like college football games, NBA and NFL games. B...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Look around the walls of the first-floor hallway of Hillside Elementary School, and you’ll find photo after photo of Drums of Thunder out on the road: in front of the Washington Monument, at Madison Square Garden, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, to name just a few places where they’ve performed. And where...