A-State Connections

Andrew Coleman's Passion for Music, A-State Football Fuels Spirit Behind 'The Sound'

By Johnathan Reaves

Published September 12, 2019 at 10:32 AM CDT

Today, we conclude our interviews with the drum majors that lead the Sound of the Natural State marching band. Andrew Coleman is a percussionist and a Music Education Major from Forrest City. He has been on the Sound of the Natural State for 5 years and drum major for 3 years. Click on the Listen button for the entire interview.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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