After a seven-year absence, the sounds of horns and percussion return to the Sleep Train Concord Pavilion on Sunday, May 6th at 2pm in Concord, California. The FREE event kicks-off the Blue Devils’ 50th Anniversary year with an early-season preview of the 2007 shows from all 3 of the Blue Devils corps – A Corps, […]
Finally, the last camp of the 2007 season is over. The weekend was rather eventful and productive. This time I drove up to camp with my parents because I had to move out of my dorm on Friday for the end of the semester. My parents volunteered at a Spirit fundraiser at the Talladega Speedway […]
Drum Corps International is reporting that their headquarters building was broken into overnight and items stolen. Apparently, several documents were stolen from the DCI safe – which contained historical artifacts, recordings, and items referencing the up-coming Classic Countdown. After DCI.org released information on a late late-night security breach Tuesday night at Drum Corps International headquarters, […]
We at Dynamic Marching are dedicated to providing innovative ideas for today’s most successful marching programs and have many talented, passionate individuals who each contribute special skills and areas of expertise. This article has been provided by our very own Chris Mader – who, in addition to being a great marching & movement instructor, is […]
This past weekend I had a much better camp than earlier in March. My carpool and I arrived in Jacksonville just after 11 at night because we couldn’t leave Tallahassee before 5:30. Apparently we missed a horn warm up that didn’t get past a certain articulation exercise because either the horn line wasn’t focused enough […]
Tribute To An Inspiring And Aspiring Impulse! Eric “Henry” Escobar, Impulse’s horn sergeant in the 2006 season, pictured here in performance, is moving on for his age out year to fulfill a lifelong dream of marching with the Madison Scouts. “Henry”, as he has been affectionately referred to over the years with Impulse, maintains his […]
“I love drum corps. It is so much more real than life.“ ~ Apologies to Oscar Wilde Lee Rudnicki pontificated like Pooh-Bah in "The Mikado," a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Way to shake up the napping natives, Rudnicki, in your recent DCP thread regarding DCAssociates. Thanks for specifically stating you were not addressing President Gil […]
The inaugural North American Championship, sponsored by the Bugler’s Hall of Fame was a great success – with constant accolades by the participants and audience on the professionalism of the production of the show and all of the performances. Held at the John J. Cox Student Center at the University of Bridgeport (CT) on Saturday […]
This fall, a history book covering the years leading up to the formation of Drum Corps International (1969-1972) to the present day will be produced by the publisher of Drum Corps World, in cooperation with Drum Corps International. The co-authors of the book, Nic Waerzeggars and Dave Wilson, will be working to include personal comments […]
As we head down the stretch of Indoor Percussion for 2007, I can’t help but think "What’s This All About?" Really now……back in the day of guard contests, there would usually be a color guard stomping around the gym floor herking and jerking their way to "Opener’s", " Color Pre’s" and "Closers." I loved those […]
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