Rochester’s Empire Statesmen topped almost every caption in the Pageant of Drums in Syracuse, New York on August 18, winning with a score of 92.125. Statesmen had the top scores in field visual and visual composite; field percussion, ensemble percussion, field brass, ensemble brass and music composite; visual effect, music effect and effect total. Syracuse […]
The Empire Statesmen, a local drum and bugle corps, held an open rehearsal on Sunday at PAETEC Park to help drum up support for an upcoming competition. The Statesmen will host the Drum Corps Associates World Championships in Rochester over the Labor Day weekend. Organizers say they expect more than 50 drum corps from the […]
Final arrangements for Mae Zingali have been made. Mr, Frank Dimino, Mae’s nephew invites all those, who wish to attend, to a luncheon directly following the service. Name and directions of the facility will be shared after the service. He asks that you please email George Oliviero at georgewhs [at] aol [dot] com,or Jack Cash […]
The Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps is pleased to announce that the corps will be rehearsing in Weehawken, NJ on Sundays for the remainder of the season. The facility is a brand new sports complex on the banks of the Hudson River with a breathtaking view of Manhattan, the inspiration for our 2007 production of […]
The Connecticut Hurricanes present FANFARE 2007 Drum & Bugle Corps Competition. The competition will be held Saturday, August 25, 2007 at West Haven High School Stadium, West Haven, CT. Details and information including performance line-up and ticket reservations for Fanfare 2007 is now available. Read the rest of the article here.
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen took the high music composite score, sweeping the field brass, ensemble brass and ensemble percussion captions, and had the top score in music effect while closing the gap behind Hawthorne Caballeros to just 0.8 points in Kingston, New York’s March of Champions on August 11. Statesmen finished a close second to the […]
Some invisible force has tugged them to this dark parking lot – 286 strong, from around the nation. It has disrupted two years of their lives, demanded time and money and, to be honest, a whole lot of Advil. All for the next 13 minutes. "I know my life’s been forever changed," said Donna Jackson, […]
For five days television viewers and newspaper readers have been seeing the black sedan stranded in the middle of the Mississippi River on I-35W’s broken bridge. It is hard to imagine anyone walking away after falling 64 feet in that car, but that is exactly what Emily Paden did. "I have a fracture on my […]
Reading Buccaneers are still cruising down the river ahead of everybody else, but Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are splashing closely behind, finishing less than two points behind the Bucs in the Sounds on the Susquehanna contest in Binghamton, New York on August 4. Buccaneers, still undefeated in 2007, won the contest with 90.288 points, with Statesmen […]
Twenty-two corps will battle it out for the title of 2007 World Champion on Saturday, September 1 in Rochester, NY in the preliminary round, hoping to secure a spot in the finals the next evening. This year, there is no distinction between A Class and Open Class in the prelims. All 22 corps will go […]
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