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Boston Crusaders Welcome New Corps Director

The Boston Crusaders is pleased to announce that Jeff Pearson will assume the role of corps director for the 2016 season. Jeff Pearson was the Director of Operations for the Boston Crusaders during the 2014-2015 season and we are excited to have Pearson step into this new role. Executive Director Chris Holland states, “Jeff is […]

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Madison Scouts Welcome The Return Of Van Mathews And Bill Zeier

The Madison Scouts are pleased to announce the return of Van Mathews and Bill Zeier to the brass and visual instructional teams respectively. “Van and Bill were mainstays to the Scouts instructional team throughout the nineties,” said Chris Komnick, Executive Director. “Van helped established the signature sound of the Scouts brass line while Bill was […]

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In The News – Drum Corps Associates 2015 World Championship

It’s like watching an opera on a football field. You could call it this sport’s superbowl at Sahlen’s Stadium. “This is very different than marching band. Marching band has woodwind instruments. Drum and Bugle Corps is completely brass instruments and you have the percussion and the color guard for visuals,” said Allen Buell, Drum Corps […]

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SCV Welcomes Dr. Chip Crotts To Lead Vanguard Brass Program

Santa Clara Vanguard is pleased to welcome Dr. Chip Crotts as the corps’ new Brass Caption Manager. Crotts currently serves as the Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Director of Bands at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. A GRAMMY nominated artist, he has performed and recorded for the Disney Company in Europe and […]

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Lewis And Perkins Named 2016 Madison Scouts Color Guard Caption Heads

The Madison Scouts are pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Lewis and KC Perkins as Color Guard Caption Heads for the 2016 season. “We are privileged to have both Ian and KC returning to our guard program and assuming the caption head role,” said Chris Komnick, Executive Director. “This will be Ian’s fifth year […]

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Blue Stars 2016 Design Team

The Blue Stars are pleased to announce our design team for the corps’ 2016 season. Designers include: Kevin Ford – Drill Design Ian Grom – Percussion Composer and Arranger John Mapes – Percussion Composer and Arranger Richard Saucedo – Brass Composer and Arranger Michael Shapiro – Color Guard, Choreography, Visual Coordinator Read the rest of […]

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Bushwackers Announce 2016 Membership & Audition Day

The Bushwackers Drum & Bugle Corps will be celebrating our 35th Anniversary Season in 2016, and are kicking off the celebration with our 2016 Season Membership and Audition Day, to be held at Princeton Day School in Princeton, NJ on Sunday November 22, 2015 from 9am to 5pm. Registration can be found at www.bushwackers.org/joinbush. With […]

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2015 DCA I & E Schedules

Whether you are scheduled to perform in Individual and Ensemble (I&E) events this weekend in Rochester, or you just want to watch the greatness, please see the attached schedules. Read the rest of the article here.

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Meet The 2016 Boston Crusaders Drum Majors

We are pleased to announce that Aidan Williams and Mark Hambleton will lead the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps in 2016. With a combined 8 years of drum corps experience, we couldn’t think of better people to represent the Crusaders as we enter in our 76th season of competition. Still interested in conducting? There […]

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