Seven drum corps from across the country gathered Tuesday night at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium to compete in Drums Across Kansas. For the groups involved, the contest was one stop on a summer long musical marathon. Ross Viner has been the contest coordinator for Drums Across Kansas since it began 10 years ago. Viner […]
Wichita Falls’ Jake Ledford and Nathan Ascano are learning corps values, and they’re learning them the hard way. They spend endless torturous, grueling, surly hours under the searing sun. They march endlessly. Read the rest of the article here.
25 July 2007Wednesday, 10:21pmPittsburgh, KS In the past week we have endured cricket infestations, scalding hot showers, and fourteenth place. But really, that's looking at everything from a very negative point of view. Last Wednesday night (July 18), we had the Lafayette, LA show. It would've been a great show if my cold and asthma […]
Not one, not two, but three drum and bugle corps from Canada made Sunday night stopovers at Horicon Public Schools. All three rehearsed Monday for a 7 p.m. field competition in Madison. Following the competition in Madison, the Hype Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamilton, Ontario and Stemtors of Sherbrooke, Quebec, returned to Horicon to […]
Carly Moskalski has had a busy summer. The 16-year-old mellophone player from Webb City is touring with the Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Lexington, Ky. She has practiced with the band for up to 12 hours a day since May, sleeping on floors in school gymnasiums, living out of a bus, and paying […]
The Cadets of Allentown, Pa., edged out crowd favorite Phantom Regiment of Rockford, Ill., Monday during the Bob Costello Festival of Drum Corps. The festival is part of Drum Corps International’s Summer Music Games. The games culminate the second week in August during the 2007 World Champ-ionships in Pasadena, Calif. The Colts of Dubuque, Iowa, […]
EnCorps! Video from Drum Corps International lets you watch select performances from your favorite Drum Corps International units – whenever you want – as often as you want! Available exclusively to DCI.org Fan Network Platinum Members, the EnCorps! Video presentation of the DCI San Antonio Southwestern Championship event from July 21 in San Antonio, Texas […]
How would it feel to receive the same honor as an award-winning actor and musician like Andy Griffith? Ask Michael Cesario, 1971 graduate of UW-Whitewater, as he, along with Griffith and other noted musicians, were inducted into the 2007 class of Signature Sinfonians. Cesario, a current band and drum corps uniform designer, received the Signature […]
Local high school band members got a chance to march with some of the best drum and bugle corps members in the country — if not the world — Monday during a clinic conducted as part of Thunder in the Desert at Grande Stadium. The Glassmen from Toledo, Ohio, showed youngsters from Midland and other […]
Lineups for the July 28, DCI Indianapolis major event in Indiana and the Drums Along the Rockies major event in Denver, Colo. Lineups were determined by the competitive results of the DCI Southwestern Championship on July 21 in San Antonio, Texas, in combination with a random draw in groups of threes (1-3 ranked corps, 4-6 […]
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