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All-Age, All Good ~ DCA Friday the 13th through Labor Day

The DCAssociates Bridgeport, CT, show, the Barnum Festival, was a huge success June 30. This show is back in the black saddle, spurred back into the DCA corral. For a couple of years, the ringmasters took the Barnum Festival off on a slight tangent, featuring superb alumni corps. At the latest show, seven competitive DCA […]

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DCA’s All-Age, All Good! ~ From sea to shining Salem

My role in reporting all-age news is to be DCA’s urbane paladin, adorned in pince-nez, showering readers with all-age news clustered in rose petals. While in other columns, I might hop onto a journalistic jet ski (Little did I know when I first wrote this, I’d have a jet ski between my legs in Pensacola […]

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Cozy’s DCA Planet – January

Nattering nabobs of novelty to powwow in Newark Tuning in to a recent Tennessee Titans football game, four cameras, high and sideline, were broadcasting the game with raindrops drenching the lenses, which oddly reminded me of DCAssociates. The biennial Rules Congress will meet in Newark Jan. 13-14. While Lee Rudnicki, Renegades marketing maestro, will be […]

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All Cozy, All Good!

Cozy’s DCA Planet by Cozy Baker DCA goes to Pittsburgh, W-S, Annapolis, Baltimore, Indy, Cincy, L.A.? "I always give myself such very good advice, but I very seldom follow it." ~ Alice per Lewis Carroll, “Alice In Wonderland” Defying Journalism 101; i.e., introduction paragraph, I’m just going straight into a talons flailing philippic like the […]

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So it’s Over . .

Despite the Saturday rain, DCA 2006 was one “Hades of a weekend.” The energy of everyone in attendance, performers and fans, was unlike anything I have ever seen under such trying conditions. With your indulgence, I want to use this space to thank a few folks who usually fall under the acknowledgement radar. First, Tim […]

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Quadruple Duty In Rochester

Ah, Rochester . . . competing against our friends in this, DCA’s most important weekend, yet joining together to do battle with Mother Nature! As you have been reading in the Forums, this year’s DCA Championship Weekend was, shall we say, challenging? Looking back, the only real trouble spot was Saturday’s visit by almost Hurricane […]

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By the Time I Get to Rochester ….

Actually, Glen Campbell’s lyrics fit my situation very well. I’ll be on my way soon for six solid days of another love, this thing called drum corps. My wife, Chris, will see my note when she rises but, unlike Glen, I’ll be returning to her after all. The time has come, DCA marketing for 2006 […]

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Cozy’s Cruise’n

We’re coming down the home stretch with this DCA season. There’s about a month to go, and so far the Reading Buccaneers have made it clear " We’re still the champs, and it’s for you to prove otherwise." Well . . . . it looks like at least four other corps are determined to provide […]

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Sneak Preview!

Producing DCA’s annual Championship Guide & Yearbook must have been a continuing challenge for whoever held this position before. My predecessor, Tom Peashey, warned me about this project, but I already knew what he meant. I had done this twice before, although many years ago.

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On The Road With Cozy

Our man out there on the streets, living the drum corps life, as we all wish we could, has found his way to California! Cozy Baker, a transplanted Southerner (ya’all know what I mean) has filed his latest report on how DCA 2006 is moving along. Gotta love this guy’s experience! I sit home at […]

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