Home » August 8th, 2007 Entries posted on “August, 2007”

Drum Corps in South Africa?

Now that DCI is living it’s finest week of the year, it might be time for everyone in the Marching Music activity to look at where we come from. Wasn’t Drum & Bugle Corps a community activity in the past where the sole purpose was to keep kids off the streets? We should be proud […]

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On The Road 2007 Tour Closes With Sunsets, Smiles And Tears Of Joy

The tour culminated with a fantastic evening in Perranporth on the North coast of Cornwall on Saturday night. Picture the following scene: Golden sands with surf rolling in with the incoming tide. Each wave seeming to be more powerful than the last one. The sun gradually setting, a warm evening breeze. The arena was on […]

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In The News: Woman Escapes Bridge, Goes To Music Practice

For five days television viewers and newspaper readers have been seeing the black sedan stranded in the middle of the Mississippi River on I-35W’s broken bridge. It is hard to imagine anyone walking away after falling 64 feet in that car, but that is exactly what Emily Paden did. "I have a fracture on my […]

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Troopers Announce 2008 Audition & Camp Dates

Troopers Director Fred Morris today released the 2007/2008 Audition and Training camp schedule for the corps 50th anniversary season. The first audition weekend will be held on November 16-18, 2007 in four different locations: Cheyenne, WY, Boise, ID, Houston, TX and Knoxville, TN. Auditions will continue at the same locations in December over the weekend […]

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Crossmen To House In Norco For Championships

The Crossmen will move to Norco High School in Norco, Calif., tonight and remain at the housing site for the duration of World Championship competition. The announcement comes after the corps lost its originally planned housing facility and was desperately searching for a replacement. They will arrive at Norco around 5 a.m.on Tuesday, Aug. 7, […]

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Cadets Housing Site Changes During Finals Week

The Cadets will remain at Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Calif., for the entire Championship Week, a change that also alters the location of the corps’ Championship Breakfast scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 11. The Cadets arrived at Bloomington on Monday, Aug. 6 and, due to a shortage of corps’ housing in the Pasadena area, were […]

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WGUK Spintastic On The Road

Spintastic On The Road is a new venture by WinterGuard United Kingdom to assist in education within the colourguard activity and WGUK are pleased to announce that the first two sessions have now been booked. In both cases a WGUK appointed and funded Clinician will be traveling to different areas of the country to assist […]

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DCUK Box Office Opens For 2007 Championships

The Box Office has now opened for DCUK Championships tickets and attached is an Order Form as well as there being the normal on line facilities available via the DCUK website – http://www.dcuk.org.uk Please note two main changes from previous years: 1) The price prior to the event is slightly cheaper than buying tickets on […]

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Statesmen Moving Closer To Bucs At Binghamton

Reading Buccaneers are still cruising down the river ahead of everybody else, but Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are splashing closely behind, finishing less than two points behind the Bucs in the Sounds on the Susquehanna contest in Binghamton, New York on August 4. Buccaneers, still undefeated in 2007, won the contest with 90.288 points, with Statesmen […]

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DCE Presents 2007 European Championships Logo

After ‘The Castle’ and the Erasmus Bridge, another Rotterdam symbol now forms the basis of the DCE Championships. The artist Peter Franken has designed a European Championships logo for Drum Corps Europe that focuses on the well-known cube houses. "After the theme of sport (the historical Sparta Stadium in 2005) and bridges and water (Erasmus […]

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