Fran Haring Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 If there are not enough mini-corps Ghost and Star United have agreed to play their last three years shows complete with uniform and prop changes! At least that's what I think I heard. A maxi-corps. LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeatherM Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Ghostriders are not competing this year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Wow, that's news. First time they've missed in 20 years, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefanalum Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Again the question.... When will DCA tell us who is appearing... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) Again the question.... When will DCA tell us who is appearing... Pete Saw this on Facebook today: 9:00pm Govenaires Shanghai Festival Corps 9:15pm Rocketeers 9:30pm Brig Juice 9:45pm Bridgemen 10:00pm Freelancers 10:15pm Star United FYI, that Govenaires group is appearing in exhibition, from what I understand, unless that has changed. It's the cut-down version of the Govies that is going to China this year. Edited August 24, 2016 by Fran Haring 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Sad to think that it was but a few short years ago that they were considering capping the entries because there was a danger of there being too many. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Drum Corps Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 It is only entertainment for DCA. I have been told this many times. The corps that took it seriously are mostly gone. Ghost Riders are only the latest on the hiatus list. Mass Brass, Erie, MCL, Golden Eagles, Lambertville, Skyliners et al...have just decided not to do this anymore. We took it more seriously than most realized. It just became too much work and not enough fun! We were doing it wrong. Ghost Riders are still performing in concert and parade activities. Contact Doug if you would like to have GR at your function. DA 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Sad to think that it was but a few short years ago that they were considering capping the entries because there was a danger of there being too many. Yet we've also had several years when there weren't a ton of entries. We had four mini-corps one of the years in Annapolis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 It is only entertainment for DCA. I have been told this many times. The corps that took it seriously are mostly gone. Ghost Riders are only the latest on the hiatus list. Mass Brass, Erie, MCL, Golden Eagles, Lambertville, Skyliners et al...have just decided not to do this anymore. We took it more seriously than most realized. It just became too much work and not enough fun! We were doing it wrong. Ghost Riders are still performing in concert and parade activities. Contact Doug if you would like to have GR at your function. DA Well, I hope you don't really feel you were doing it "wrong"! You were doing what worked for you and what you wanted to do, no? (And to the great enjoyment of the audience.) And now that you've decided to do something else, more power to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Sad to think that it was but a few short years ago that they were considering capping the entries because there was a danger of there being too many. Yet we've also had several years when there weren't a ton of entries. We had four mini-corps one of the years in Annapolis. According to CorpsReps (plus this thread for 2016), these were the number of competing mini corps each year: 1993 -- 7 1994 -- 7 1995 -- 6 1996 -- 5 1997 -- 5 1998 -- 7 1999 -- 7 2000 -- 8 2001 -- 8 2002 -- 10 2003 -- 9 2004 -- 9 2005 -- 12 2006 -- 11 2007 -- 18 2008 -- 11 2009 -- 13 2010 -- 10 2011 -- 7 2012 -- 7 2013 -- 4 2014 -- 11 2015 -- 8 2016 -- 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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