Circle your calendars and listen for the drum roll. For a third year, Gowans Stadium has been named the site for a Starlite Drum-O-Rama competition. The July 13, 2009, Hutchinson Drums Across Kansas is booked as the only major show in the state for the year. The event will star eight drum and bugle corps […]
Eleven returning and two new staff members will guide the Cadets’ colorguard in 2009 as the group recently met for auditions at the corps’ first camp in November. Leading the team will be Caption Supervisor Emma Roberts, now celebrating her thirteenth year with the corps. Also returning will be well-known and talented designers and instructors […]
It is not too late to join Spirit for the 2009 season! After completing a very rewarding weekend of auditions, Spirit will continue the audition process with brass auditions in Richardson, Texas on December 13 and with brass and percussion auditions December 19-21 in Jacksonville, Alabama. If you are interested in participating with a World […]
Youth Education in the Arts [YEA!] is seeking your help in collecting desirable prizes and items for a Cadets’ 75th Anniversary Silent Auction to be held Aug. 1 at the Montclair State University Conference Center in Montclair, N.J. The auction will be held in conjunction with the Cadets 75th Anniversary Summer Diamond Bash from 3 […]
The Grant Wood All-City Drum and Bugle Corps hopes to learn this week whether or not it will march Barack Obama’s inaugural parade. If it marches, it should be at the head of the parade, according to its band director Slayton Thompson. "Just like we launched Obama" in Iowa’s leadoff precinct caucuses in January 2008, […]
What a positive start for the Blue Knights’ 2009 season! A special "THANK YOU" to everyone who attended our first audition camp from all over the US and from as far away as Canada and Japan. The turn out was fantastic with a full complement of prospective and returning members in attendance. This group of […]
The Holy Name Alumni Organization will hold its last meeting of 2008 on Thursday, Dec. 4th at 7 p.m. in Garfield, N.J. The informal holiday get-together will be the last opportunity this year before the group reconvenes in 2009 for its first of the exciting 75th Anniversary season of the Cadets. The meeting will be […]
Follow along as the Crusaders audition weekend happens! Crusaders executive director Tom Spataro will be posting right here live from the weekend in Tampa. Stay on top of events as they unfold! Read the rest of the article here.
The Santa Clara Vanguard Alumni Association has offered to raise funds to purchase a brand new souvenir trailer for the Vanguard. This fundraising project will also assist in retrofitting the current souvenir trailer into a new kitchen trailer (or a "Mini Miss Amana") for the Vanguard Cadets. The purchase of a new, high-profile souvenir trailer […]
Some Shenandoah University students did not join the mass of people traveling for Thanksgiving. Instead, they are staying in Winchester for at least part of their five-day holiday break. Joe Hilling, an 18-year-old sophomore from metropolitan Philadelphia, stayed in town because Winchester is closer to Canton, Ohio, than his home in eastern Pennsylvania. Read the […]
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