by Andrew Wheeler, Drum Corps World staff (wheelerand [at] sbcglobal [dot] net) Author’s note: I’m reviewing three shows on successive nights in Whitewater, WI, Oswego, IL, and Michigan City, IN. The three competitions featured largely the same corps, so I have focuses the primarily on different aspects of the shows. For Michigan City, I’m writing […]
Mike Quillen isn’t new to McMinnville’s big shebang. A member of the Frank Messina Big Band since 1990, he’s been playing the main stage on Third Street for about 20 years now. This year, though, he found himself in a new Turkey Rama role – leading the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps in Friday […]
It’s been a great stay at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins, Colorado. The school is clean, the stadium is turf, the showers are warm – it’s been ideal. The members are relieved that today is much shorter than the past two. Yesterday the corps endured four hours and 15 minutes of visual rehearsal, […]
Tickets for the Paddock Lake/Salem, Wisconsin show taking place on Wednesday July 13 at 7:30pm are still available online – but only through Phantom Regiment now. Come see 8 drum & bugle corps including the Santa Clara Vanguard and Madison Scouts! Read the rest of the article here.
Denise Bell said she didn’t know when she last smiled. Friday, though, she said she was smiling all day. Denise, whose husband Richard died about three months ago, tapped a foot and hand and nodded her head as members of Pioneer Drum & Bugle Corps & Color Guard from Milwaukee, Wis., rehearsed at Seneca Caverns, […]
by Andrew Wheeler, Drum Corps World staff (wheelerand [at] sbcglobal [dot] net) Author’s note: I’m reviewing three shows on successive nights — Whitewater, WI, Oswego, IL, and Michigan City, IN. These three shows had largely the same corps each night, so I’m covering primarily different aspects in each report. For Oswego, the focus is primarily […]
Find out how Forte is doing in the corps’ second season in Texas; plus a blues song about drum corps, a new fan wonders about electronics, and this week’s Time Capsule challenge! Dan Potter has all that and more in Friday’s Field Pass presented by Zildjian. Have a Field Pass question, comment or request? Leave […]
Our incredible fans asked to learn more about the 2011 production, and now we want to share this special look Inside XtraordinarY! This two-part video is over 13 minutes of behind the scenes insight from members our exceptional design team…Enjoy! Read the rest of the article here.
Drum Corps Europe has been twittering drum corps news in English and in Dutch for some time now. Now this news is also available in German, French and Italian, so that European drum corps fans can easily follow the news in their own language. Read the rest of the article here.
Join us at our 2011 Send-Off Gala and Dessert Auction Thursday, July 21st, 2011 6PM – 9PM Enjoy world class entertainment… and Aunt May’s Date Pudding (among hundreds of world class desserts!) Read the rest of the article here.
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