The Racine Explorer Scouts are pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Cavanaugh to the corps’ percussion staff. Mr. Cavanaugh is an alumnus of East Coast Jazz, and has also performed with the Boston University indoor percussion ensembles. He is currently studying percussion at the University of Massachusetts, and will work primarily with the Scouts’ […]
LVMA is in desparate need of: Any and all guidance to further this new organizational chart and efforts. We definitely will need an experienced executive director soon, but until we secure the funds to pay someone, we are asking for those who have board experience, executive director experience and corps management to provide phone calls […]
For two Colquitt County teen-agers preparing for an 8,500-mile odyssey, the lazy days of summer will be few and far between. Rachel Foster and Teal Ewer began preparing in December for the two-month tour that will take them along much of the East Coast and as far north as Minnesota. That was when the first […]
Garrett Fuerst marches to the beat of his own drum. The 16-year-old rising junior at Gibbs High School is part of the Jacksonville, Florida-based Teal Sound Drum & Bugle Corps. The elite touring group is comprised of 125 top music students aged 15-21 from across the southeast and Japan. This summer Teal Sound will travel […]
Memphis Sound is proud to announce the newest partnership in the relocation efforts to the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Executive Coach (www.usacoach.net) will provide Memphis Sound a new level of charter buses for the 2009 Tour and beyond. With Memphis Sound relocating to Texas, the organization has found it important to seek out local […]
Come and spend the day and evening with Teal Sound on June 20th, 2009 for our annual Friends & Family Day. Come out and support the corps as they show you what they have been able to accomplish after the first week of Spring Training. The day will be filled with multiple events including a […]
The Racine Explorer Scouts are pleased to announce the addition of Jose Iraheta to their percussion staff. Mr. Iraheta is originally from Santa Ana, California and has an extensive marching music background. His teaching experience is spread throughout several Southern California high school music programs. He was the caption head for the 2009 PIO Bronze […]
Our first rehearsal was a big success, despite having to make some unexpected adjustments when we arrived at the rehearsal site and found the power had been shut off. For the first few hours at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Fine Arts Center, emergency lighting was all we had to see by, so we made […]
Phil Patenaude figures the Americanos Drum and Bugle Corps kept him out of reform school. "It gave me an opportunity to have somewhere I had to be every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night from 6 to 9 when we rehearsed," said Patenaude, 53 of Weyauwega who was a member of the group from 1971 to […]
Editor’s note: This is the first of a five-part series featuring the Drum Corps International drum and bugle corps which will perform at “Thunder in Oregon” July 7 at Ontario High School. This week’s drum and bugle corps: The Oregon Crusaders. Drum Corps International will hold an event featuring five drum and bugle corps teams […]
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