www.dutchboydrumcorps.com has gone live again

[hawkeyefilms]

I am very pleased to announce that www.dutchboydrumcorps.com has gone live again with a retrospective look at the history of the Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps and it's related units including: Cadets of Dutch Boy, Northstar Drum & Bugle Corps, Flying Dutchmen Junior & Senior Corps, Dutch Boy Cadets and the 48th Field Squadron Royal Canadian Engineers Trumpet Band.

This site offers more than 50 years of drum corps history dating back to 1954 that began and has been centred in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. This labour of love website was created by David Delouchery, a former Dutch Boy member who marched on the soprano line from 1984 to 1988. "The initial idea that took root seven years ago, was to release a DVD boxset of the corps' performances. Steve Meikle who was the corps director at the time expressed the desire to reach out to our alumni. I was also sitting on hundreds of historic photos that we wanted to make available to them. Eventually I decided that a website would be the best choice to distribute the material. What began as a winter project took four months to complete. The goal was to amalgamate the corps' history in one place in a way that has never been achieved before."

As much material as possible has been gathered onto this site including more than 1000 photos, 68 videos and 30 audio & music files. "There are still many "holes" to fill but I expect that members will submit new content and information after they see the progress so far."

The Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps has been inactive since 2010. The Northstar Youth Organization which is still based in Kitchener and the banner under which Dutch Boy was operated continues to offer youth education programs specializing in the performing arts through instrumental music and dance.

Years Active

Dutch Boy Drum & Bugle Corps 1980-1992, 1998-2009

Cadets of Dutch Boy 1977-1979, 1980-2008

Northstar Drum & Bugle Corps, 1977-1978

Flying Dutchmen Senior Drum Corps 1960-1966

Flying Dutchmen Junior Drum Corps 1967-1976

Dutch Boy Cadets 1969-1976

48th Field Squadron Royal Canadian Engineers Trumpet Band 1954-1961

[Santana]

Thanks for posting this link. The site is great. It is very interesting to me to see how it started and how it evolved into one of the most entertaining corps I've seen, past or present. If you haven't seen it, check it out.