The Bridgemen Performing Arts Organization and The Bridgemen Board of Directors are proud to announce the Return of the Bridgemen Alumni Drum & Bugle Corps! The re-re-birth of the corps will start with the formation of a Reunion Parade Corps. The corps is already confirmed to perform in the 2018 Bayonne St. Patrick’s Day Parade, […]
HAPPY SPRING BUSHWACKER NATION! The corps just finished a busy and rewarding Memorial Day weekend and we are in the home stretch to finally getting this “show on the road” for the 2017 season. We just have a few minutes left of drill to learn and in a few weeks the corps travels to the […]
Nine individuals from the United States and Canada with a long history of drum and bugle corps activity and experience will become associate members of the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame during the 2017 induction ceremony to be held Friday, September 1, in the ballroom of the Holiday Inn (formerly Rochester Plaza), 70 State […]
The Bridgemen Performing Arts Organization is happy to announce that the Organization and it’s Performing Members will be returning to the 2017 DCA Championship Weekend, in Rochester, NY September 1st through the 3rd. Tom Maiello, BPAO Director said, “We’re sending as many participants as possible, we want every member attending to experience this event and […]
Billy Cobham is the 2017 World Drum Corps Hall of Fame Distinguished Professional Achievement inductee, a pioneer in jazz fusion music blending elements of jazz, rock and funk. His early drumming days included marching with St. Catherine’s Queensmen of St. Albans, Queens in 1961 and 1962 and Long Island Sunrisers from 1963 to 1966. In […]
After World War I, Amsterdam veterans organizations formed drum and bugle corps. John Donlon, a 1945 local high school graduate, recalled the premier groups between the world wars in his native city were those of the James T. Bergen and John J. Wyszomirski American Legion posts. Most drum corps members were war veterans who learned […]
The Kilties are preparing for the summer schedule of parades and Mini-Corps presentation at Gilmore Middle School in Racine, Wisconsin. Potential members are invited to attend along with veterans and alumni. Membership is open to those from 16 years old and upward with positions open in brass, color guard and percussion (battery and front ensemble). […]
Three of the six individuals chosen for 2017 induction into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame have made outstanding contributions in the percussion field in North America and overseas, beginning more than 40 years ago in the mid-1970s. The 2017 banquet and induction ceremony will take place in Rochester, New York on Labor Day […]
The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps today announced that it has established the Navigator Award, and also announced Twin Valley High School music educator Daniel M. Long as its initial recipient. Mr. Long was presented the award at the 13th Annual Spring Preview, an indoor concert hosted by the Buccaneers, on Saturday evening. To […]
Everett Public Schools music educator Charles A Poole Jr., who leads the Everett High School Marching Band and its award-winning Percussion Ensemble, has been elected to the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies will take place this coming Labor Day weekend in Rochester, New York. Poole began his musical career in 1957 […]
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