Meet The Capone Family

Traditions come in a great many ways such as holidays, sports, traditions within families, and many more too numerous to name. Our activity of drum corps also have traditions that have been carried on through the years by family members who continue their family name by marching in a corps to this day. Meet the Capone family from Pennsylvania whose drum corps roots date back to 1963 when Joseph Capone was one of the original seven corps directors of the seven charter member corps. The Reading Buccaneers, Connecticut Hurricanes, Interstatesmen, Archer-Epler Musketeers, Pittsburgh Rockets, Yankee Rebels, and the New York Skyliners were the corps that comprised DCA in September of 1963 when the charter was written, DCA’s name was chosen, and they were immortalized as charter members.

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