Mullingar Town Band have made their band lotto available online. Many football clubs and bands in Ireland use a lottery system as a means of paying membership fees and boosting band income. The bands lotto has been in operation nearly 20 years, and offers prizes up to 5000 euro. Now the new web application allows [...]
The dates and locations of all contests in the European Music Games have been announced. The coming season will see fifteen contests in five countries. The season will start in Middelburg in May. Just like in 2011, the contests will take place in Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and France over a period of [...]
Drum Corps Europe is working on setting up a ‘DCE Corps Network’. With this network, DCE wants to modernise and improve its way of communicating with corps. The DCE Corps Network will be a platform where participants of the DCE European Championships will be kept informed of developments at Drum Corps Europe. The platform will [...]
Drum Corps Europe has a new Licensed Partner in Asia. The organisation of the Grand Prix Marching Band Championships has signed an agreement with DCE. That means that the competition in Indonesia is now also held under the umbrella of the DCE Competition Manual. The GPMB is the second organisation in Asia to cooperate with [...]
Not following the latest drum corps news yet? Then get on Twitter now and start following DCE! At the end of April we will give 5 followers 2 free tickets each for the best section (section A) at the DCE European Championships! @DrumCorpsEurope keeps you up to date on the latest drum corps news. In [...]
Nadia Graziani (22) from the Italian drum & bugle corps Mosson will join the Empire Statesmen from Rochester – New York next summer. She will be competing in the competition of Drum Corps Associates, including the DCA Championships. Nadia has been marching with Mosson since 2004. As of 2007 she has been the color guard [...]
Judging from the reactions that Drum Corps Europe has received, the DVD of the 2011 DCE European Championships is proving to be very popular. Drum corps fans have responded positively to the image and sound quality. For years now, the DCE European Championships have been recorded using high quality cameras. “Less high-quality equipment would work [...]
At the start of the new year, the editors of Drumcorps.org.uk interviewed the Chairman of Drum Corps Europe, Marcel Matthijsse. He talks about the opportunities, challenges and resolutions Drum Corps Europe will face in 2012. Read the rest of the article here.
Once again, the DCE European Championships will be held in the now well-known Parkstad Limburg Stadium in Kerkrade. It will be the fifth time that the stadium is the scene of Europe’s largest drum corps event. The contract has now been signed by both parties. “We are pleased that we are welcome at the Parkstad [...]
On Saturday the 21st of January, European drum corps organisations will meet up in Belgium. The annual meeting is intended to discuss European competition and cooperation and to take a look ahead at the coming year. Drum Corps Europe is organising the meeting, and the meeting will be attended by Drum Corps Nederland, Drum Corps [...]
