Following the successful tour of 2007, invitation now goes out to ALL interested Bands/Corps to contact event Director and BYBA President Bob Girvan on This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to book your place in the 2008 road show.

It is hoped to hold an initial meeting in January 2008 to discuss further, followed by a meeting in Devon/Cornwall when Bands/Corps can make contact with potential venues for accommodation.

There is already a larger interest than last years tour and so if you want to experience the fun and excitement of the South Coast, be with and make friends along the journey, plus play to enthusiastic audiences all week long don’t delay in letting Bob know right away.

The 2008 Drum Major will be Cristian Barbarino. A great trumpet player and section leader for MillenniuM, Cristian will be conducting the Corps' performances starting this winter.

MillenniuM Drum & Bugle Corps wants to say thank you to Daria Raimondi, Drum Major for MillenniuM during five wonderful seasons (2002-2007) who has recently been accepted at the "Ecole Centrale" de Paris.

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Current and prospective leaders representing the whole activity are coming together on Saturday January 26th in Leicester to join in a Conference titled 'Marching Towards the Olympics'

Organised by the Federation, the agenda already boasts keynote speeches from Youth Music's No.2 DAVID SULKIN, and MICHAEL McKEEVER the Head teacher of Trinity School in Nottingham. The Cultural Olympiad team are still being appointed, and the Federation will know during December who they are sending to address the conference. The Cultural Olympiad team has the task of guiding and promoting the 'marriage' between sport and the arts at local, regional and national levels, in the four years leading up to the 2012 Olympics.

'Young Musicians Guide to Rock' is the name of the 2008 production that Black Knights Senior Corps are proud to announce. A show that will be 'in ya face' from the very start incorporating some of the very best rock music there is. The show will be another original exciting BK production.

The Black Knights are very glad to be putting 'everyday' music on the drum corps field. The theme promises to have your head banging to the drumbeats and face-melting guitar riffs from music that has stood the test of time for decades up until the most recent releases.

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