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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After an exhausting weekend of rehearsing our entire brass book. SoCal Dream is proud to release its first audio clip of the 2006 season. Listen here to L'Arena.

As of June 1, a total of twenty-seven all-age drum and bugle corps have officially registered for the 42nd Annual DCA World Championships in Rochester, New York this summer. According the DCA President Gil Silva, every participant from 2005 will return and be joined by SoCal Dream of Irvine, California. The current entry list includes corps representing fifteen states and one Canadian province. "We expected continued growth for DCA and have already changed our competition schedule to accommodate that, said Silva. We also heard from other groups but those plans are not finalized.".

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