The Derby City Knights Performing Arts Association, Inc. announced today the formation of The Derby City Knights Drum and Bugle Corps.

The Drum and Bugle corps is an all-age (senior) corps open to anyone age 14 and up with prior experience in marching brass, color guard, drumline or drum & bugle corps.

“Drum and bugle corps is a marching and musical activity, similar to marching band in many ways. The instrumentation is much more specific - only brass and percussion instruments are allowed, as well as color guard - dancers who also perform with equipment such as flags, sabers and rifles,” said Matthew Basey, Corps Director.

Music City Legend Drum and Bugle Corps will host its third annual Family Day concert on Saturday evening, June 24th, at Goodpasture Christian Academy on Due West Avenue in Madison, starting at 7:30. The gates open at 6:00. The event serves as the final dress rehearsal for the corps prior to their first contest of the 2006 season the following night in Lexington, Kentucky. Admission to Saturday’s family-friendly Family Day concert is FREE.

The superbowl of Drum and Bugle corps competitions is coming to Rochester this summer. Tuesday morning local county and city leaders announced that the 42nd Drum and Bugle Corps World Championship will be held at the new Paetec Park, Labor Day weekend. The 2-day competition is expected to draw thousands of visitors and pump millions of dollars into the local economy.

Despite a very aggressive recruitment and marketing effort over the past months, the Grenadiers unfortunately will be withdrawing from the Summer DCA tour schedule due to the lack of membership in our brass section. It comes as a huge disappointment, especially since we were experiencing our most successful drumline and guard programs to date.

It is important to note that although the Grenadiers will be competitively inactive, we will maintain a summer schedule of parades and festival appearances that were already existing in our summer schedule. It is the full intention of the Board of Directors, the program staff and a large majority of existing membership to resume a full camp schedule again in October to bring the corps back to the field for 2007. The Grenadiers are the longest finalist-finishing Canadian drum corps in DCA history, and I feel confident that after a much needed break, the organization shows good signs of re-organizing and preparing for a successful return to the competitive arena next summer.

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