It’s an Old Time Family Fun Festival, so Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are taking the kids with them to Geneva, NY this weekend, with both groups scheduled to perform on Saturday, June 3. The Empire Cadets, the youth marching band operated by the Empire Statesmen as a community outreach program, will perform at 4:30, and the […]
For me, the pleasant side of Memorial Day Weekend involves high speed racing, Indy to be specific. Just back from five days in the Circle City, my visit to the 90th running of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing (sorry NASCAR) was a bit different than before. The promoter side of me was also in town […]
Did you march in one of these groups? This fall Steve Vickers, publisher of Drum Corps World, will complete work on a new history book that contains nearly 2,200 drum and bugle corps images. The vast majority of photographs have been accumulated from the extensive archives of Drum Corps World, but there are a number […]
Four well-known members of the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame have been appointed to serve as members at large on the organization’s executive committee. The four have been active over seven separate decades, beginning in the late 1940s. The four men are: Rip Bernert, of Blackwood, New Jersey; Roman Blenski, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Riggie […]
Bushwackers going Ivy League? That’s right! On Saturday June 3rd The Bushwackers will perform at the prestigeous Princeton University commencement ceremony. The corps will lead the Princeton class of 1971 during the famous Princeton "P"rade. The "P"rade honors each graduating class as they march through the campus on their way to the commencement ceremony of […]
(Translated via AltaVista Babel Fish) French fans of drum corps and marching bands will have only the embarrassment of choosing for the last weekend of June. Indeed, two major events are organized in the north-Picardy area in Saint Quentin and Lille. Read the rest of the article (in French) here.
Bob Boze Bell, editor of True West Magazine, cited the 7th Cavalry Drum & Bugle Corps as one of the major factors influencing his magazine’s decision to name Sheridan the No. 1 Western Town in the United States. Today, the 44-member organization will perform for the nation as a unit of the National Memorial Day […]
Color Guard Nederland (CGN) is pleased to announce the completion of the 2007 contest schedule. The contests for Color Guard and Indoor Percussion are very propular in The Netherlands and in 2007 an extra contest will be held.
Drum Corps Europe has revealed the date for the DCE Championships in 2007. Next year, the European Championships will be held on Saturday, September 29th. Every year, the DCE Championships are held on the last Saturday of September. This year is an exception, because the DCUK Championships are to be held in the weekend of […]
When: Sunday, June 4, 2006 Where: Rosemount High School Cafeteria 3335 142nd St. W Rosemount, MN Time: Lunch will be served from 12:30 – 1:30 RSVP: alumnilunch06 [at] gmail [dot] com or by calling Ann Jones at 651-653-1065 Please give your name, the years and section you marched, and the names of your guest(s). This […]
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