The Battalion has forged a new partnership with interactive percussion education platform percuss.io to better serve its corps members and engage with fans. The percuss.io platform synchronizes on-demand video with inline music notation. Users can choose any starting point, loop chunks, and slow down video without changing pitch. Whether it’s corps members practicing between camps, […]
The Battalion’s 2017 Design Coordinator and Front Ensemble Caption Head, Shilo Stroman, is slated to present at the Utah Music Educators Professional Development Conference this Friday, February 3 at 9:45 am in the Garden Room at the Dixie Convention Center in St. George, Utah. Stroman’s session will tackle “The Modern Front Ensemble” and is aimed […]
Music City has selected its drum majors for the 2017 season. Pictured on the left is new assistant drum major Scott Smith from Erin, TN. Scott is a music education major at Austin Peay State University. This will be Scott’s first year marching with Music City. Pictured on the right is third-year drum major Jeremiah […]
Representatives from The Battalion traveled to Atlanta this past week to attend the DCI Annual Meetings – a series of trainings, workshops, and collaboration sessions designed to advance Drum Corps International and its member organizations. ??The proceedings marked several milestones for the corps. After completing a successful year as an affiliate member of DCI’s Open […]
The Colt Cadets will kick off the 2017 season with the first open rehearsal on February 12 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm at Table Mound Elementary in Dubuque. This preseason event is FREE to attend! Students are encouraged to arrive at 12:30 pm to sign in, meet new faces and help set up equipment. Come […]
Battalion Entertainment (BTE) – a new performing group under The Battalion Drum & Bugle Corps umbrella – made its debut this morning at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The entertainment ensemble kicked off the opening ceremony for the Stryker 2017 Global Sales Meetings that run today through the end of the week. […]
As we build excitement for the 2017 season, here is a list of practice sessions for Brass and Percussion through February. All practices take place at the Nashua Boys and Girls Club. Sunday, January 29th Brass and Percussion. 9AM to 4PM. Bring bag lunch. Sunday, February 5th Brass and Percussion. 9AM to 4PM. Bring bag […]
Music City has started rehearsing its 2017 production entitled “Tribe.” The corps performed Part 1 of the show for family and friends at the conclusion of its January camp. You can watch a video of the performance. Over 80 brass and 40 percussion performers were in attendance at the camp. Many thanks to all staff […]
We’re excited to officially reveal our 2017 production – “Listen to the Silence” – featuring original music from Shilo Stroman, John Matthews, and Alex Entin. Check out the show trailer above and download our 2017 production backgrounds for phone and desktop below. Read the rest of the article here.
Free music Lessons Dance & Choreography No experience necessary Email Bluesaints52 [at] gmail [dot] com for more information Wednesday Jan 18th from 6 to 8pm at the Montessori School on the corner of Regent St and Victoria St in Sudbury Read the rest of the article here.
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