Drum Corps Associates today announced details on the Alumni Classic event to be presented as part of the 2006 DCA World Championships presented by A.J. Wright. A full program of ten popular corps will appear on Sunday, September 3, 10am, at new PAETEC Park in Rochester, New York. Scheduled to perform are The Crusaders Sr. […]
Welcome to Retro Sound. Upstate New York’s newest Drum and Bugle Corps. Retro Sound’s goal is to perform as a parade corps playing classic drum & bugle corps music. Retro Sound will hold rehearsals at the Verdoy Fire Department which is centrally located in Latham, NY just 2 miles west of Exit 6 of Interstate […]
It’s a mighty, joyful noise – a wall of sound so big your jawbone vibrates and your spine tingles. The Yankee Rebels Drum and Bugle Corps, formed in Baltimore six decades ago, is running through its repertoire in a small hall at a Dundalk community center. And the sound is almost too much for the […]
Dream Drum and Bugle Corps of Irvine, California, have released an audio clip from their last rehearsal camp in March.
The Rochester Crusaders will be performing for the first time in 2006 at The University at Buffalo's "Spectacle of Sound". the evnt will take place April 8th beginning at 6pm at Club Evolution. Performing along with the Crusaders will be several high school jazz ensembles and the UB "Blue Noise" Pep Band. The Crusaders will be […]
Drum Corps Associates, Inc., the organizing body of all-age drum and bugle corps, announced today it has entered into a sponsorship agreement with DCP Partners, LLC, owner of the internet site dedicated to the entire drum and bugle corps activity – DrumCorpsPlanet.com. According to DCA Marketing & Public Relations Director, Fred Windish, the relationship will […]
They once set the standard for competitive drum and bugle corps, performing songs that ranged from Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather" to the Frank Zappa piece "Peaches En Regalia." The complicated rhythms of Zappa's lead into his 1969 solo album, "Hot Rats," were a hit for the Pittsburgh-based Steel City Ambassadors at drum and bugle competitions […]
Frontier Drum & Bugle Corps has been selected to perform at the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival in Denton, TX on Saturday, April 29th.Frontier's performance will be among a host of regional and national musical acts performing that weekend including Brave Combo and blues guitaristRobert Cray. The corps will perform its' full musical program in […]
Granted, when Henry "Lefty" Mayer and representatives from Drum Corps Associates seven charter member organizations sat down in 1964 to establish DCA, performing membership was primarily limited to males over the age of 18. But that’s changed! Surely, back in the time of Beatles invasion, and just six years after the founding of AARP, this […]
DCA . . . All-Age, All-Good! …… will be a regular column feature on Drum Corps Planet – providing updates from Fred Windish, Director of Public Relations for Drum Corps Associates. Fred will provide our readers with insights to the latest information and plans from the world of DCA. Please be sure to watch the […]
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