You may have seen our brand new trailer by now, and we have lots of people to thank for helping us build it from the ground up! Before we post the thank you’s, here’s your chance to join the list. There are a few helmet bays left! You can secure your name in our trailer […]
Off the field, away from the lights and the cheering fans, the most incredible part of the drum corps activity takes place… It’s behind the glamour of performance that one can truly see and appreciate the dedication that is required in order to keep an ensemble of this caliber functioning. Kay McLellan put together some […]
Parents, Family, and Friends, If you would like to put an ad for your member in the Opelika show program we have quarter pages for $15, half pages for $25, and whole pages for $50! Just fill out the form below and be sure to include your photo and paragraph! Choose a photograph that will […]
Somewhere among my mother’s long-ago stored effects there is a photograph of a 3 year old boy, standing on a sidewalk in New York as a parade passes by, waving a small American flag, an expression of pure joy on his face. That boy was me and, though I do not recall the details, I […]
In 2012, the Cavaliers and the Phantom Regiment joined forces for the Backyard Brawl, a fundraising event which took the friendly rivalry between the two Illinois drum corps from the field to the internet. The Brawl was incredibly successful for both corps, as demonstrated by how much it has grown over the past three years. […]
Megan Quamme just graduated from the University of Minnesota with a biology degree. But her plans to become a physician’s assistant one day are on hold while she spends the summer dancing like a movie star and spinning flags across the football fields of America. Quamme, 21, performs each night in a different city as […]
Chers Phans, Good evening! We just completed a show day at Metamora Township High School in Metamora, Illinois. I am on the bus, and we are departing for Wisconsin to rehearse for a couple days in the UW Whitewater Perkins Stadium! Read the rest of the article here.
Rehearsals eight hours a day, three days a week. Living out of their suitcases and sleeping on high school gym floors while on the road. Fourteen-hour competitions. That’s what the season looks like for members of the Golden Empire Drum and Bugle Corps, an elite extension of the Bakersfield College drumline program that will go […]
Some Oregon residents may have heard brass and percussion cadences rather than fireworks to start their Fourth of July weekend. Oregon High School was the practice location for the Music City Drum & Bugle Corps on July 3, before their performance later that night at Rockford’s Show of Shows at Boylan Catholic High School. Read […]
It’s hard to believe, but the summer is half gone. Midway through one of the corps’ most sucessful seasons in years, the Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps are headed back into Denver for Drums Along the Rockies (get tickets here). As the members and staff of the corps put the final touches on their […]
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