It’s finally here. DCA 2008. This week, everyone in the DCA world will be packing their bags and traveling to Rochester, NY for the 2008 World Championships. Take special note that on line ticketing will cease Thursday evening August 28th, at 10:00PM. However, Tickets will be available on Thursday and Friday at DCA Headquarters in […]
The regular season is now officially over and a great one it has been. In the last two shows of the season, Reading Buccaneers in their own show, retained #1 seed in prelims with a convincing 5 point victory over the Brigadiers and a final score of 95.538. In West Haven, CT, Empire Statesmen survived […]
Chairman Dick Pronti has announced the order of appearance for the 2008 DCA Mini Corps Contest held at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester on Friday August 29th. This event follows the annual I&E competition at the same site starting at 5:30. Main St. is blocked off to allow drum corps fans from everywhere to […]
The Austin Stars are now accepting applications for the 2009 season. Spots are available for staff and performing members in every section of the corps. We will compete in the Drum Corps Associates circuit and go all the way to the DCA World Championships on Labor Day Weekend 2009. A show announcement including repertoire will […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are steadily closing the gap between themselves and still-undefeated Reading Buccaneers, finishing a strong second to the Bucs in the Parade of Champions American Legion National Championship contest in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 16. Statesmen sailed ahead of Hawthorne Caballeros and Connecticut Hurricanes in the second-last weekend of regular contests in the […]
We are getting down to the end of the season and the Drum Corps Associates (DCA) Championships in Rochester NY are fast approaching. With only 1 SoCal rehearsal remaining, SoCal Dream is primed and ready to take on the rest of the “A” Class corps. The final rehearsal is on August 23rd and is, as […]
Top scores in field and ensemble brass helped Rochester’s Empire Statesmen blow past Hawthorne Caballeros for the first time this season, into a close second place behind Connecticut Hurricanes, at the March of Champions in Kingston, New York on August 9. Hurricanes won with a score of 90.475, ahead of Statesmen with 90.038. Caballeros were […]
Each year corps from all over the D&B scene head towards BKLYN’S Kingsborough Community College to donate their time for the Music Under The Bridge stage show hosted by Brooklyn United. We’re now into our third year at this beautiful campus. This years show takes place Saturday October 18th @ 3pm. The first year (2006) […]
On Saturday, August 16th the Atlanta CorpsVets will play host to six of DCA’s finest Drum and Bugle Corps with the 6th annual Drum Corps Rocks the South competition at Alexander High School in Douglasville, Georgia. Representing the DCA-South region and performing at this show will be Atlanta CorpsVets (Atlanta, Ga), Alliance (Atlanta, Ga), Austin […]
The Austin Stars, Central Texas’s only competing all-age drum and bugle corps, will be performing their 2008 program "Stars In The Spotlight: On Stage, Screen & Field" for a final time in Austin this weekend! The corps will be celebrating their successful season on Sunday, August 10th, at 7:30 PM at Bridge Point Elementary School […]
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