The martial sounds of drum and brass that for nearly all of the last 27 summers could be heard wafting across DeKalb will be a lot rarer this year. Milwaukee-based Drum Corps Midwest, which has been holding drum corps competitions in DeKalb since the late 1970s, suspended its operations in November. Other than practice sessions […]
The Blue Knights have been offered the opportunity to staff a concessions stand at INVESCO Field for Rapids and Outlaws soccer games. We, of course, certainly need the revenue and would like to take on this fundraising project. The type of stand we manage is dependent on how many volunteers we can commit for each […]
The Blue Knights Winter Brass Ensemble hit the road this past weekend and traveled south to Rampart High School in Colorado Springs. While there they performed at the Rocky Mountain Color Guard Association’s color guard competition. We spoke with member Chuck Williams who stated, "The crowd really appreciated the performance and it was a lot […]
In our last edition of the Newsbrief Blue Knights Director Mark Arnold shared with us the highlights of the Corp’s first two weeks of their coming summer tour. In this edition, he shares some of the highlights of the next two weeks of tour following Drums Along the Rockies… "We’ll be back on the road […]
The inaugural tour of Winter Brass has been playing to standing-room only classrooms across Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey during the week of March 13 on a feel-good tour of high schools and middle schools, helping music educators ignite, and in some cases reignite, young people’s enthusiasm for music and music performance. Eight past and […]
In a morning meeting of the full office team for Youth Education in the Arts (YEA!), George Hopkins, CEO for YEA!, announced that Megh Healy had accepted the position of Director of Performing Ensembles effective Monday, March 20. Indeed, Megh was the one office team member NOT at the morning gathering as she is "on […]
The power, precision and pageantry of world-class drum and bugle corps returns to Central South Carolina as part of the 2006 Drum Corps International Summer Music Games tour.
A very busy weekend is coming up for the members of Beatrix’. The guard will put the last dots on the I for the finals in Eindhoven in their last training camp. The brass will have a training camp to study the closer on Friday night from 19:00 – 21:30 in Bussum and Sunday in […]
Sights & Sounds, Inc., publishers of Drum Corps World newspaper, released a new set of DVDs on March 15. Contained on the four-disc set are performances of the four senior corps and seven junior corps at the 1967 American Legion Nationals and seven performances of junior corps from the CYO Nationals two days later. This […]
The San Jose Sabercats have invited the Vanguard Cadets percussion line to perform during their opening ceremonies on Friday, March 17th at the HP Pavallion in San Jose, California. The game time is 7:30pm PST. The game and possibly the Vanguard Cadet’s performance will be broadcast on Bay Area Fox Sports Network. For further information, […]
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