It’s our 10th anniversary and we’re not looking back! The future is where its at. Sunday, December 3rd at 1 p.m. the CorpsVets will kick-off our 2007 season. That’s the day we’ll introduce our 2007 production and staff as well as do some spinning, playing, and drumming. Plan on joining us at our rehearsal home […]
I’d like to invite you to visit "Inside the Arc" – a new feature column, written by Frank Dorritie. The column will feature essays on the marching music activity by a person who has been a performer, instructor, and arranger – from the ’60s to the present. Frank’s unique perspective for Inside the Arc will […]
Welcome back to the "Land of All Things Brass." This installment of Brass Advantage will focus on the rarely discussed topic of "Slurring on the Trombone". What most other wind instrumentalists refer to as "slurring" from one note to the next, trombonists call legato. This is because where a trumpet player can slur by just […]
The Blue Devils are very excited to announce a full list of brass auditions for the 2007 season! There will be NO FEES for any audition and representatives from The Blue Devil brass and visual staff will be on hand for ALL live auditions. New for the 2007 audition season will be a second Concord […]
I am working on a new book project that will include approximately 2,200 photographs of drum and bugle corps. These groups participated in one or more of the Drum Corps International Championships between 1972 and 2006. I have spent the past 10 months going through the Drum Corps World photo archives — which are quite […]
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Jennings spent the summer sleeping on gym floors, traveling long hours on a bus and practicing drums for 12 hours at a time, but he would do it all again in a heartbeat. Read the rest of the article here.
The DCE commercial will be shown tonight for the first time on the TV channel ‘TV Rijnmond’. The 30-second commercial can be seen at around 17.25 during the commercial break between the news and sports. The commercial will be aired on the channel dozens of times this week. A QuickTime version can be downloaded from […]
In 2007, Frontier is turning back the clock, almost 40 years. The year…1968. America was in a turbulent time. The Vietnam War caused violent opinions on both sides of the battle, and a multitude of emotion. Civil Rights battles reached new heights, and we lost one of it’s strongest and most vocal proponents… Martin Luther […]
The Hawthorne Caballeros are pleased to announce that a trip to Europe for the 2007 Competing Corps has been finalized. The competing corps will tour England, France, Belgium and Germany. Read the rest of the article here.
The Northern Light Drum & Bugle Corps from Rhode Island will have an information/recruitment booth at many New England band shows this coming fall. Why not stop by, say "Hello", and find out more about us. Check out the schedule here.
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