DCP TRIVIA CONTESTWin a pair of VIP tickets to the 2006 DCA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Drum Corps Planet wants to give YOU a pair of VIP COMBO tickets to the 2006 DCA World Championships in Rochester, NY this September. To have a chance at winning, you must correctly answer the Contest Question: "What is the nickname […]
The DrumCorpsPlanet.com Photo Gallery has just been updated with 120 *new* photos from the DCI Division 1 and DCA Open Class corps from 2005. A collaborative effort with Drum Corps World magazine, the Photo Gallery features nearly 300 images of corps that took the field in 2005 – from DCA, DCI, and around the world. […]
Camp this weekend caused some rude awakenings for me, but at least the airline didn’t lose my baggage! The week heading into camp was quite stressful. I’ve been taking all of my IB and AP exams, and they don’t end until May 19th. I took my IB Environmental Systems test in the morning and headed […]
As promised, our man Cozy Baker is back with his impressions of last week’s Loud Music Symposium at the San Francisco Bay Area’s Campbell Heritage Theater. This Renegades sponsored evening of decibel worshipers has apparently cast its spell upon another new disciple. Drum Corps Associates member corps have thankfully managed to maintain individual identities. It’s […]
Steve Vickers, the publisher of Drum Corps World, is working on a new book project that involves locating approximately 2,200 different photographs of various corps from over the past three and a half decades. The Drum Corps World photo archives are quite extensive — well over 10,000 prints — but there are a number of […]
We have a Winner!DrumCorpsPlanet readers were invited in March and early April to submit original essays addressing the subject "The positive impact the Drum Corps activity has on people’s lives", as their entries in our DCI Championships Ticket Contest. The contest closed at midnight on April 15th and the process of review began. After reading […]
Drum corps is as much about people as it is about music, possibly more so. We all thirst for opinions about our beloved, yet somewhat specialized and secret passion. Our next door neighbor is likely to express an unsolicited take on major league baseball, the Super Bowl, etc., but when was the last time the […]
**SITE OFFLINE** DCP will be offline intermittently overnight (May 3-4) to give us time to complete some maintenance duties that are leftover from the server move. We plan to perform these tasks during our least-busy hours – between 3am and 7am EDST (midnight to 4am PDST). If you encounter the site down during those hours, please check back later. […]
Steve Vickers, Publisher of Drum Corps World magazine, is working on a new book project that involves locating approximately 2,200 different photographs of various corps from over the past three and a half decades. The Drum Corps World photo archives are quite extensive — well over 10,000 prints — but there are a number of […]
What a great way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon in SoCal – reaquainting yourself with the sounds of the Kingsmen. I promised my 10-year-old daughter that we’d have a fun time and hear some great music – so after lunch at Portillo’s (a transplanted hot-dog/Italian Beef joint from back home […]
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