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Over 300 Experience Life As A Crossmen

Over the last two weekends, more than 300 students from around the world made their way to Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio,TX or Central High School in Keller,TX with the goal of learning more about what it takes to be a member of the World Class Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. In an […]

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Blue View – Episodes 7 And 8

BlueView is much more than your basic camp report. It is a video magazine featuring insights, commentaries, flash backs of past performances, news and all that is The Blue Devils. Episode 7 – A report from the DCI Championships in Pasadena where The Blue Devils win their record setting 12th world championship. Episode 8 – […]

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Southern Aurora/Legion Star Announce 2008 Show

Southern Aurora and Legion Star from Brighton and Crawley in Sussex are pleased to announce that they will be performing ‘The Southern Express’ as their 2008 Summer Season production. Based on music from the Polar Express, The 2008 production will take the audience on a roller coaster ride of emotions, and mood changes, from the […]

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Pacific Crest Show-and-Tell Concert Sunday

Come see and hear what our Workshop attendees have worked on during the Workshops. The nearly 200 performers in attendance this past Sunday represent some of the most amazing high school and college performers in Southern California. Come check out what they’ve been working on at the Workshops by attending our show-and-tell concert this Sunday. […]

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Inside the Arc
“Vocals, Narration, and the Trouble with Amps”

To begin with, full disclosure: some of this is my fault. In 1977, Rich DeCola and I heard Joel Kaye’s New York Neophonic Orchestra (a kind of Kenton-meets-Maynard group) perform “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, the signature ballad from Jesus Christ Superstar. It rocked, and seemed a natural for Garfield’s book as we […]

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Connecticut Hurricanes Announce 2008 Program

The Connecticut Hurricanes have loaded the wagons and are heading west for the 2008 DCA campaign. Show Coordinator, Jim Dugan, announced at yesterday’s open house that the Hurcs are going west and will expand on a show concept idea used back in 1999 which until this day is still talked about as one of the […]

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DCE Introduces ‘Certified Partners’

Drum Corps Europe is introducing a new level of strategic partner, known as ‘Certified Partners’. National organisations that use the DCE Competition Manual for all their contests, and also use the DCE judging team may call themselves ‘DCE Certified Partners’. The ‘Certified Partnership’ idea is a result of discussions between DCE and national drum corps […]

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Empire Statesmen Annnounce 25th Anniversary Program

Rochester’s Empire Statesmen will celebrate their 25th anniversary season in 2008 with highlights of the three main musical themes that have defined the corps’ contest routines since 1983: songs from the Big Band era, selections from some of the most popular shows to every appear on Broadway, and patriotic salutes to the men and women […]

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2008 Yamato Percussion Staff Announced

Yamato Youth Arts Association is proud to announce its percussion instructional team for the 2008 season. Returnng for a second season, Mr. Fernando Miller (RCC, Blue Devils) will be heading the team as Percussion Caption Head, co-arranger and snare instructor. Former Caption Head, Mr. Pete Sapadin (VK, Cadets, Blue Devils) returns as our principal percussion […]

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2008 Glassmen Off To Fantastic Start

Over the November 23-25 weekend, several very excited, motivated and dedicated young men and women from all over the United States, Great Britain and The Netherlands came to Toledo, Ohio for an opportunity to be a part of Northwest Ohio’s own GLASSMEN. Coming off of a highly successful color guard audition camp that was held […]

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