Because of the generosity of phans across the world we met Ryan Tysdal’s $10k match challenge and have exceeded our first fundraising milestone during our Year-End Campaign! 

You can check out the list of donors on our official Thank You page.

We still need your help to hit our next milestone!

It’s our goal to raise $50,000 before 2020 to ensure that Phantom Regiment can provide life-changing performing arts experiences into the next decade and beyond.

Alum Mike Oldemeyer (’94, ’96, ’98) is matching the next $5000 in donations from right NOW until 12/25!

I marched with Regiment for three seasons (1994, 1996, and 1998), and met some of my best friends during those summers; people I talk to and see on a regular basis over 20 years later.

I think about all the work and intense camaraderie, all the horn arcs, bus rides, and never-ending visual blocks (in some parallel universe, we’re still tinkering with Clair de Lune), and I want to do what I can to ensure the corps is able to provide that kind of experience for current and future members that had such a profound impact on my life.

– Mike Oldemeyer

Will you join Mike, and the growing list of Phantom Regiment heroes, and DOUBLE your donation today?

In 2019, Phantom Regiment provided life-changing performing arts experiences for thousands young people from around the world. We couldn’t do it without one key element… YOU.

We’ve set a goal to raise $50,000 by the end of 2019. Money raised during our Year-End Campaign helps us to expand our programs to reach even more young people next year.

Will you add your name to the list below and be a hero for the next generation of influential leaders?

Thank You…

Phantom Regiment Alumnus Ryan Tysdal has agreed to match the first $10,000 raised during our 2019 Year End Campaign. We asked him to share  a little about why he decided to support the corps with such a generous donation.

I grew up in Sioux Falls, SD, and still reside there today. I remember it was around this time in 1995 that I was getting ready to get in a car and drive halfway across the Midwest to the audition camp for the 1996 Phantom Regiment. That weekend trip to Rockford would change my life forever.

My audition score was a ‘3’ and I was barely invited back after the audition camp.  In truth, I had only been playing baritone for about 6 months prior to auditions. But I kept practicing – and kept driving to Rockford to the monthly camps – in the hopes to earn a spot. I went on to march 5 summers with the Phantom Regiment, aging out in 2000. 

I feel the advantage I had marching in the late-1990’s was that I got to be a part of the organization in both the good times and the challenging times.  I witnessed first-hand that when things were good, they were great.  And when things were challenging, we all had to pitch in a little extra, work harder and give more.

During my marching years, I went from a 16-year-old ‘kid’ in 1996 to aging out as a disciplined and dedicated young adult 5 summers later.

Phantom Regiment taught me many lessons I have carried with me throughout my life.  I entered a career as a commercial real estate broker. I frequently joke with clients that “my secret weapon is hard work.”  It was Phantom Regiment that taught me how to work hard to achieve what I wanted. Something tells me there are many, many other alumni that can relate to that feeling.

As an alumnus of the Phantom Regiment, I chose to make a donation this year, because – quite frankly – I feel there has never been a more imp