Those Orange Things In The Back

Bryan Lackey was born in San Dimas, California in 1979, and his first love was paleontology. However, he joined band in fifth grade, starting on trumpet, and never really stopped. After his first year of playing he was a part of the incredible Lone Hill Intermediate School band program under Ed Wolfe, picking up trombone and euphonium along the way, and his junior year of high school he discovered music teaching after helping a friend develop a better sound on trumpet. He received his bachelor's degree and teaching credential from California State University, Fullerton in 2005. As an educator he has taught and coached privately and been a school band director at all age ranges from elementary to high school, and for the last four years has served as the Director Of Instrumental Music at Morningside High School in Inglewood, CA. As a performer he has been the former principal trumpet of the Yorba Linda Orchestra, a featured trombone soloist with the Pico Rivera City Jazz Band, and the founder of ska band Goodluck Shark. He continues playing across southern California as a freelance musician and a member of Orange County based ska band Failed To Victory.