Carolina Crown is just steps away from adding a $1 million addition to their budget this year, but the competitive drum and bugle corps needs help. Carolina Crown is a finalist in the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. The group already won round one of the process, netting $25,000. Beginning Friday, Jan. 15, the […]
The great lead and jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew tells his students that "talent is a matter of breaking barriers." While trumpeter Joey Pero might have brilliantly selected and covered "Defying Gravity" from Broadway’s Wicked on his breakthrough CD, Resonance (Resonance Music Group, 2009), Pero has been defying and utterly smashing performance barriers all his life. […]
Atlanta CorpsVets Drum and Bugle Corps is excited to announce their program for the 2010 season: 360° Featuring music from Disney’s Millennium Celebration. To learn more, join us at camp this weekend. Read the rest of the article here.
The first episode of 2010 for the Drum Corps Planet Box Center podcast is now available for download! This week, your host, Managing News Editor Kevin Gamin, interviews Eric Sabach of Carolina Crown about the upcoming second round of the Chase Community Giving program, and how the four corps who made the first round cut […]
The FBF was requested to perform for the Norwegian King and Queen on their recent state visit to South Africa. This was indeed a great honour and after meeting our Chairman Herman Mashaba they watched the national Field band perform together with some young dancers from the Alexandra Field band. It was a unique opportunity […]
Dear Alumni, It is hard to believe that we are now in our 10th year of existence as an organization. As an alumnus of our programs, you have played a major part in the success of The Academy. To take advantage of this historic moment, we want to keep you posted on some of the […]
Every Cadet has something they cherish from the years they wore Maroon and Gold. Maybe it’s the bugle they played in the 1940s A tattered flower or shawl from the 1980s An age out candle from that special ceremony in 1990 Read the rest of the article here.
Drum Corps International staff member Joe Courtney celebrated his retirement on Monday after serving as the organization’s warehouse manager for more than 10 years. Prior to and during his tenure with DCI, Courtney has served as a marching music journeyman, spending more than five decades in a plethora of roles including performer, instructor, administrator, judge […]
Drum Corps Europe has launched its official DCE iPhone app. The application for the popular Apple phone is now available in the App Store. The app provides the latest news from the DCE site in five languages. DCE had already launched a beta version in September last year, but this still had some bugs. These […]
We have just completed the final workshop of the year with 60 tutors being trained by our Norwegian Exchange teachers from the Norwegian Band Federation (http://www.musikkorps.no) and 4 field percussion and show design experts from Vlamo (http://www.vlamo.be) The members had a fantastic time and worked very hard and learned a lot. We were very honoured […]
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