Home » April 30th, 2006 Entries posted on “April, 2006”

Distant Thunder Featuring Member Blogs

Due to demand from its members, Distant Thunder have set up a members blog to record marching members experiences during the 2006 season. Hot on the heels of some DCI corps, they are the first UK corps to launch a public blog on their internet website. Postings will follow after rehearsals, events and competitions giving […]

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Strangers In Seattle Join As Scouts

Three guys agreed to meet recently at a Seattle watering hole, practically under the Space Needle. They had never seen or heard of one another before. Well, I guess they did have one little thing in common: They are all alumni of the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps. Read the rest of the article […]

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Cozy Ponders DCA ’06

Drum corps is as much about people as it is about music, possibly more so. We all thirst for opinions about our beloved, yet somewhat specialized and secret passion. Our next door neighbor is likely to express an unsolicited take on major league baseball, the Super Bowl, etc., but when was the last time the […]

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DCI Names 2006 Volunteers Of The Year

As a part of National Volunteer Week, Drum Corps International would like to name the 2006 DCI Volunteers of the Year. More than 15 drum corps volunteers were nominated for this year’s award. Many of these nominees have been around the drum corps community for decades, and we hope they are around for many more […]

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Music City Legend Announces Assistant Drum Major

Carrie Fox, 23, of Nashville, has been appointed as the new Assistant Drum Major of Music City Legend Drum and Bugle Corps. She is a 2001 graduate of McGavock High School and a 2005 alumna of O’More College of Design with a degree in Visual Communications. A graphic artist, she is married to Stephen, her […]

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2006 World Drum Corps Hall Of Fame Inductees

The six men who will be inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame on Labour Day weekend have made an impact on the activity in key areas right across the country, from Rhode Island on the Atlantic to the Wisconsin heartland and the Pacific coast in Washington. Their involvement in drum and bugle […]

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New Domain For Drum Corps Europe

Drum Corps Europe has activated a new domain name: drumcorpseurope.org. This will be the new starting point from where visitors of the DCE website can proceed to their own language (English, Dutch, German or French). The old DCE website was hosted on the drumcorps.nl domain. The DCE management decided that a Dutch TLD (.nl) is […]

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2006 DCI Classic Countdown Results

The votes have been tallied! The following list notes the top choices as determined by fans for the 2006 DCI Classic Countdown. 12. 2004 Carolina Crown — 368 votes 11. 2005 Bluecoats — 392 votes 10. 1992 Crossmen — 470 votes 9. 1975 27th Lancers — 602 votes 8. 1979 Blue Devils — 965 votes […]

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Reading Buccaneers 2nd Annual Spring Preview

The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps today announced the concert lineup for the Second Annual “Spring Preview,” an indoor drum and bugle corps concert to be held on Saturday May 13, 2006 at Twin Valley High School, Elverson, Pennsylvania. The concert is organized and run in conjunction with the Twin Valley Music Boosters, and […]

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DCP Offline

**SITE OFFLINE** DCP will be offline intermittently overnight (May 3-4) to give us time to complete some maintenance duties that are leftover from the server move.  We plan to perform these tasks during our least-busy hours – between 3am and 7am EDST (midnight to 4am PDST).  If you encounter the site down during those hours, please check back later. […]

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