Corps Battle Through Illness With Focus On Healthy Touring

The Glassmen will unfortunately join the ranks of corps that have performers “under the weather” tonight, as some members were recently diagnosed with an upper respiratory illness. The corps has chosen to sit out from this evening’s DCI Southern Mississippi event in Hattiesburg, Miss. to give performers a chance to recover.

The Mandarins also had to miss a show yesterday in Monroe, La., because of illness, and they were preceded by Carolina Crown, who missed out on the Ft. Walton Beach event when their members took ill a couple weeks ago. In most instances, affected corps members were sick for about 48 hours and were then able to get back to their rigorous rehearsal and performance schedules.

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