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In The News: Local Residents Gain Drum Corps Honors

Four La Crosse area residents and a former drum instructor will be inducted this week into the La Crosse Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame. Headlining the second group of inductees are Joe and Avis Furlano of Onalaska, long-time Blue Stars’ volunteers who had five sons in the corps. Their son, Brad, […]

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In The News: Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps Practices At Eastern

Needing a physical education credit for his high school, William Pichette went to a dance event at his high school and found out about the school’s color guard. While at a practice for the team, Pichette saw a recorded performance by the The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. “I knew from then it was my […]

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Hawthorne Muchachos Foundation Formed

After nearly 35 years, the Hawthorne Muchachos Drum and Bugle corps will once again don their sequined boleros and red pleated bell bottoms. Initially formed in the 1950’s and starting out as a parade corps, the Muchachos through the years grew to be an Eastern powerhouse in the world of drum corps.

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Atlanta CV Wants To Give You The New iPad

Purchase your tickets right HERE or from any of our marching members. Each ticket is just $5. Our membership will be working hard to sell tickets to work off their member tuition, so please support their efforts! When buying your tickets online, we encourage you to mention a member by name so that person will […]

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2012 Cadets Need Small Vehicle Drivers

Tuesday, 6/5, 8AM UPDATE Since this story first posted a little over 12 hour ago we’ve been able to pick up one driver from June 16-20 and one from July 8-23. And a few potential truck drivers. THANK YOU! But we have a few more slots to fill by adventuresome, drum corps-loving friends, but for […]

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2012 Spirit Of Atlanta Mail Drops

Members love to receive mail and care packages while on tour. Obviously, this can be problematic as we are constantly changing locations. So, packages must arrive at specified mail drop locations by the dates listed below. Mail received after these dates will not be delivered to members. Spirit of Atlanta and our mail hosts cannot […]

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Fresh Field Pass Episodes Have Arrived

Drum Corps International’s Field Pass podcast presented by Zildjian delivers exclusive news, interviews, previews, feature stories and analysis of all things drum corps. Hosted by longtime DCI announcer Dan Potter, the Field Pass is back for the 2012 summer season with brand new episodes and a new format. Read the rest of the article here.

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In The News: ‘Spirit Of Atlanta’ Wraps Up Camp In Gainesville

One of Georgia’s music ambassadors to the country just wrapped up two weeks of training in Gainesville over the weekend. Riverside Military Academy hosted the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps as it prepared for a summer of competition across the U.S. Think marching band, subtract the woodwinds and push it to an unimaginable […]

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In The News: Showers Give Way To Holiday Sounds

Storms delayed the Cadets Drum &?Bugle Corps’ annual show Sunday at F.W. Herlinger Field in Richland. But once the skies opened up, the Cadets stood under a rainbow, entertaining a crowd of approximately 300 to well-known classics such as “Carol of the Bells” and “Silent Night.” That’s right. Christmas in June. Read the rest of […]

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2013 World Drum Corps Hall Of Fame Caribbean Cruise

Don’t be left standing on the dock when a cruise of the Western Caribbean aboard the Carnival ship Conquest departs from New Orleans. Sponsored by the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame, the eight day cruise beginning on January 20, 2013 will visit three ports of call: Montego Bay, Jamaica; Grand Cayman, one of the […]

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