The weekend of July 11th and 12th marks the final DCi shows to be held in Southern California. Don’t miss this last opportunity to see SoCal Dream perform "A Supernatural Dream". This marks the first show in SoCal that will have 3 All-Age corps performing. Along with SoCal Dream will be The San Francisco Renegades […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen provided plenty of fireworks for their hometown season-opening contest on July 4, blasting their way to first place overall with top scores in every caption in the 6th annual Vince Bruni Preview of Champions. Statesmen finished on top with 78.288, highest in any of the three Drum Corps Associates (DCA) contests so […]
Still interested in marching this summer? Music City Legend has open spots in the brass and percussion sections and we’d love to fill the corps entirely! Our specfic needs are: * Three Sopranos (marching 16) * Two Mellophones (marching 8) * Four Baritones (marching 16) * Three Contras (marching 8) * Two Snares (marching 6) […]
A few years back, five members of the Empire Statesmen Drum and Bugle Corps were putting together a new funk band and were tossing around ideas for a name. As founding member Brian King recalls, the trumpet and saxophone players together weighed some 1,000 pounds — and whenever one of them would toss out a […]
This holiday weekend will be a busy one for SoCal Dream. It all begins on Saturday with the Huntington Beach 4th of July parade in the morning. After that, the corps will take a bus to Pacific Palisades for that towns 4th of july celebration and parade. Once the bus returns the corps to HB, […]
The June camps are now complete with the ENTIRE SHOW on the field as of June 21st. The corps is quickly ramping up for its first competitions on July 10 and 11 in Valdosta, GA then Orlando, FL. Having a completed show will allow the audience an early season opportunity to fully immerse themselves into […]
Champions from different areas and different eras will compete on Independence Day in the Vince Bruni Preview of Champions drum and bugle corps contest in Rochester. The contest, named in honor of the late founder of the Empire Statesmen, will feature the Statesmen, Syracuse Brigadiers, Kingston Grenadiers, Rochester Crusaders and White Sabers in competition and […]
The Hawthorne Caballeros will host their 44th annual Drum Corps Grand Prix on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at 6:15 p.m. at our new location, Passaic County Technical Institute, 45 Reinhardt Road, In Wayne, NJ. The Grand Prix is a major Drum Corps competition in the New Jersey area with participating groups from all over the […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen will get plenty of opportunity to size up the opposition this summer, with contests across the Northeast including six of last year’s other top 10 open class finalists at the Drum Corps Associates world championship tournament. Statesmen finished third in the 2008 DCA finals. The Statesmen will compete in eight regular season […]
The sounds of percussion and horns filled the afternoon air at Confederation Park Saturday as members of the city’s drum and bugle corps played a rare performance for a hometown audience. The Kingston Grenadiers celebrated a milestone birthday over the weekend. Past and present members gathered over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of […]
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