Saturday 19th September 2020 was scheduled to be the 41st British Drum Corps Championships but thanks to COVID-19 this was not to be. Instead Drum Corps United Kingdom released an hour long Facebook “webcast” and we would like to thank everyone that contributed to this production:
Drum Corps United Kingdom are please to release the video of their first ever virtual project – DCUK: Isolation Brass – performing Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. Thank you to all that submitted videos and also special thanks to Andy Cartwright for arranging the score, Ian Downes for the logo, Lee Court for editing […]
Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, nearly four weeks ago DCUK announced that the first two contests of this coming season had been cancelled with the third show on 19th July being highly unlikely to be able to take place. On Monday 20th April the 2020 Drum Corps United Kingdom Member Corps, together with members […]
Like youth groups all over the country, Liberty have been unable to meet for a few weeks, and we don’t know when we will be able to next meet up. This has had a big effect on Liberty’s drumline. Unlike most of our brass players who have instrument lessons at school, our drummers mainly learn […]
Liberty are excited to announce our 2020/21 show – The Orphan. The challenging circumstances we are all in has seen so many competitions and performances cancelled….and so we felt we needed to do something POSITIVE….and so we want to tell everyone about our show! Whilst we aren’t sure when we will actually get to perform […]
Following the announcement by Drum Corps Europe on their website that they would not be running the European Music Games Finals in September 2020, the remaining European Drum Corps Partners (Dutch Music Games, Drum Corps United Kingdom, Irish Marching Band Association, Rasteder Musiktage, German Open and the European Drum Corps Judges Association) can confirm that […]
Liberty rounded off the 2019 season at our annual Review and Awards Night, held as usual at Crispin’s Club in Duston. The evening was filled with videos and stories from the year along with performances by members who would be taking part in the BYBA Individuals and Ensembles event later in the weekend. Read the […]
In 2016 Drum Corps United Kingdom entered into a Strategic Partnership with Drum Corps International, the world leader in producing and sanctioning touring, competitive events for the world’s most elite and exclusive marching music ensembles, with specific reference to their Sound Sport and DrumLine Battle programs and for the past 3 seasons DCUK has seen […]
On Saturday 21 September the talented youngsters of Thurrock Marching Brass, with an average age of just over 11 years, travelled to the Select Stadium in Widnes, Lancashire and competed in the Junior Class at the Drum Corps United Kingdom (www.dcuk.org.uk) 2019 British Championship Finals. Performing their 2019 production, “Apollo”, which is a celebration of […]
This time of the year is incredibly busy for lots of organisations like Liberty, as Summer rehearsals lead into the outdoor competition season. To prepare the members to perform at the Summer Rhythm competition, Liberty held a weekend camp, where daytime rehearsals were mixed in with evening team games. With lots of new members it […]
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