All Blue Devils Alumni are invited to the 50th Anniversary Alumni Celebration at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena before the DCI Semi-Finals. Refreshments will be provided along with plenty of space to catch up with all your Blue Devils friends. The event will take place from 4:00pm to 7:00pm inside the big white DCI tent […]
Road trips are an exciting rite of passage, but few take that journey on coach buses with 100 of their closest friends. In between rehearsals, the members of the Spartans Drum & Bugle Corps are packing up their suitcases along with their instruments in preparation for a two-week tour of the West Coast, culminating with […]
Beginning at noon today, many Salem schools will begin finding their halls filled to the brim. However, it’s not anxious students eagerly awaiting the first day back to school. No, it’s the many members of five drum and bugle corps that will be taking the city—and its schools— by storm. The five drum and bugle […]
Blue Devils alumni are invited to have breakfast with the 2007 Blue Devils “A” Corps members at “Devils Food,” which will be parked at the Blue Devils finals week rehearsal site. This will be a great opportunity for Alumni to recount the many great rehearsal site meals we’ve shared, as well as meet current corps […]
August 4th will mark the debut of the new Capital Brass Ensemble. The performance will be the first of a set of weekly appearances at the famous Saratoga Race Track. The track gig is a great get for the young group; procured largely on the reputation of the organizations signature music group: Brass-O-Mania!,which kicked off […]
Don’t wait until Quarter Finals to see these corps. Come to the San Diego show on Sunday, August 5, to see corps you may never see again on the West Coast. Support these amazing performers in their final show before Championships. Let’s make sure these members have a huge audience for their last event before […]
Currently, in the offices of Youth Education in the Arts, there is a catharsis of sorts going on as the staff “turns over”! Some folks left over the past months, some changed course before they even arrived, and some frankly, had to be asked to depart. Indeed, the Spring of 2007 was interesting but, lessons […]
They’re a marching band, only better. “Drum Corps International is a big deal,” said Patrick McCarty, Lawrence High School assistant band director and former Colts member. A Division 1 bugle and drum corps, the Colts, from Dubuque, Iowa, passed through town this week on a 64-stop national summer tour. Read the rest of the article […]
The 9th annual East Coast Classic Golf Challenge returns to the Chemawa Golf Course on Friday October 5, 2007 with a shotgun start, scramble format (aka Florida style). The tournament starts at 8:30AM (check in starts at 7:30AM). The deadline for sign up is September 21, 2006. If you pre-register before September 14, you will […]
It’s not easy being in a drum corps – riding in a bus all summer, hitting a different city every day and marching your heart out. "It’s no fun, and we actually pay to do this – we pay to sleep on school gym floors," said Jeremy Beck, a member of the world champion Blue […]
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