The Mandarins Brass Academy is dedicated to raising the skill level of brass playing throughout Sacramento and is intended for brass students in high school or college who are motivated to enhance their level of brass performance through a careful study of brass performance techniques. For more information and answers to frequently asked questions, please […]
Top scores in field and ensemble brass helped Rochester’s Empire Statesmen blow past Hawthorne Caballeros for the first time this season, into a close second place behind Connecticut Hurricanes, at the March of Champions in Kingston, New York on August 9. Hurricanes won with a score of 90.475, ahead of Statesmen with 90.038. Caballeros were […]
How does it feel to win a Drum Corps International World Championship? David Gibbs knows. His Concord (Calif.) Blue Devils have won 12 of them in the elite World Class division, half of those since he became the corps’ director in 1991. Gibbs was a soprano bugler for the Blue Devils from 1974 through 1977, […]
Spirits remain high today after the Phantom Regiment’s first-place showing at the Drum Corps International competition. Connie Carlson, projects and event coordinator for the Rockford drum and bugle corps, said merchandise orders at regiment.org have reached 80 in a day and a half, up from the average of three a day. And that’s only for […]
Each year corps from all over the D&B scene head towards BKLYN’S Kingsborough Community College to donate their time for the Music Under The Bridge stage show hosted by Brooklyn United. We’re now into our third year at this beautiful campus. This years show takes place Saturday October 18th @ 3pm. The first year (2006) […]
The rain was pouring and lightning flickered across the sky on Sunday, July 27 but it was no match for the Holy Family Defenders, who battled the storm to play their bugles at Rockland’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Defenders bugle and drum corps has a long tradition, which dates back to 1958. The group, then […]
Staff Sgt. Brad Swank has played his lungs out for the king of Norway, the queen of England, two U.S. presidents and the sultan of Oman, but he got his start performing at Conemaugh Township Area High School. The Thomas Mills native has been a contrabass bugler of “The Commandant’s Own,” United States Marine Drum […]
Black Knights have been approached to appear in a commercial for Samsung mobile phones. Members of the Black Knights will spend Thursday of this week filming the commercial at studios in Wimbledon. Rus Rogers from the Black Knights development team commented, “We received the call and managed to secure the gig after the producer and […]
Phantom Holds Off a Surging Crown and Talking Cadets August 2, 2008 — Allentown, PA . . . What a fantastic two evenings of drum corps! This day two of the DCI Eastern Classic pitted a surging Carolina Crown, group that has bested The Cadets in a recent show and is now focusing their attention […]
DCI East Reveals Bloomington BattlegroundAllentown, PA — August 1, 2008 . . . The first evening of August proved to be warm, pleasant and chock full of excitement for drum corps fans at the first night of DCI East. This night, and the one that followed, proved to set the stage for next week’s battle […]
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