Before you complain about walking to your car in 100-degree heat, think about the participants in Drums Across Cajun Field. These musicians have spent weeks of 14-hour days marching and playing under the summer sun. They sleep on high school gym floors in the cities they visit. These challenges are part of their efforts to […]
Liberty are now on a short Summer break and will be back at the end of August….so this is a great time to think about joining! We have opportunities in all sections: Brass, Dance, Percussion, Keyboard and Tuned Percussion. Read the rest of the article here.
The Woodgrove Marching Wolverines and the Woodgrove Music and Arts Association will host the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps from Rosemont, IL, July 27-29. All rehearsals are free and open to the public at the high school in Purcellville. The best time to watch full ensemble rehearsals will be at the stadium on July 27 […]
Odessa’s Western Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps won’t have much time for playing around this weekend. Following a Thursday evening send off and food fundraiser at Floyd Gwin Park, the group was set to leave today for an exhibition in Columbus, Texas, and will participate in the Southwest Regional Competition at the Alamodome in San […]
The Vanguard Cadets have been hard at work in Northern CA with all-day rehearsals and local performances. After about two weeks of “9 to 9? rehearsals as they call them, the Corps debuted their new uniforms in performance at the Monterey 4th of July Parade and later that day at California’s Great America theme park […]
Rising Tides summarizes the past week of tour with in-depth reviews and interviews of Pacific Crest staff and members. We are grateful to alumnus John Riley for writing these stories! Utah – July 6, 2015 This is what the membership has been waiting for. Sure, tour started in mid-June, but the night of July 5, […]
Kenton Clarke, longtime resident of Fairfield, was recently elected into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame. The World Drum Corps Hall of Fame members have made contributions to drum and bugle corps activity from coast to coast and around the world. Inductees are elected by current members for their dedication, contributions and achievements over […]
In this episode of Inside Pacific Crest, corps director Stuart Pompel talks about the move of Corps at the Crest to the Rose Bowl. The episode also features performance footage of Pacific Crest from the show. Watch the video here.
Drum Corps International rehearsals in Minnesota have begun for marching bands. The regional competition will be on Saturday at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. The Blue Devils from California are the 2014 world champions and have already won on the East Coast. As far as Saturday goes, the Blue Devils have supposedly beefed […]
At 3:30 am on the morning of July 9, four buses rolled quietly into town carrying 150 young musicians traveling together with the Spirit of Atlanta Drum Corps. In Pine Bluffs they found a place to rest, practice and prepare for their next competition in Laramie. A fifth truck, the food truck, parked and quickly […]
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