It’s time to make your hotel reservations at the Kalahari Resort and purchase tickets for the Madison Scouts 70th Anniversary banquet on the weekend of September 26 and 27. Located 45 minutes north of Madison (right off I-39/90/94), the Kalahari features the largest indoor waterpark and is the perfect place for a weekend vacation with […]
The Cadets are now offering the opportunity to purchase Cadets’ shows on your own custom-made CD! Since the Cadets released almost 60 years worth of on the field performances last month, the response and downloading has been overwhelming!Fans of the Cadets have been downloading MP3s of the Corps from as far back as 1950 and […]
Former members of the Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps are gathering and building the Alumni Corps with plans to perform for the Cadets 75th Anniversary in 2009. Alumnus Pat Vazquez, who played with the Garfield Cadets in 1961-1967, teamed up with Youth Education in the Arts CEO George Hopkins and others to build the Cadets […]
The football field at Daphne High School is blazing hot in July, but you’ll hear no complaints for these guys playing their snare drums, and not from this young woman, either! "It’s completely crazy! There’s nothing else like it!"Angela Palumbo, 21, a Daphne High graduate, is among those on this drumline working hard to get […]
Volunteers and performers at the Scharbauer Sports Complex were bracing themselves for the thunder late Wednesday. And while some dark clouds loomed, for the most part sounds of the eighth annual Thunder in the Desert roared, boomed and crashed from brass horns and drums on the football field, not the sky. This year the event […]
They’re from all over the nation, and they put on quite the show in Ocean Springs. Tuesday night, 1,400 students loaded with musical talent graced the field at Greyhound Stadium. It was all a part of the Mississippi Sound Spectacular featuring Drum Corps International. The show was both entertaining and deadly serious. "These are individual […]
Hundreds of photos of have been taken by Pacific Crest’s Bob Heffley. Check out this photo collection of Pacific Crest 2008 performances at the Pacific Crest Photo Store . Bob has worked hard to get individual and group shots during our Southern California performances. Remember that 50% of the proceeds from your purchases are donated […]
In 1974, Fred Schomburg put down his bugle, left town and joined the Army. Decades later, he and dozens more are back playing in the Rockland Defenders Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, reviving the music of their youth. “I didn’t play the bugle again until I started with the alumni corps,” said Schomburg, a 52-year-old […]
CrownEvents is proud to announce that the official hotel for NightBEAT and BandBEAT is the Doubletree Hotel Charlotte – Gateway Village. We have arranged a very special rate of $79.00 for both events. The Doubletree Hotel Charlotte-Gateway Village in Charlotte’s uptown Gateway Village is conveniently located just off I-77, six blocks from the downtown Charlotte […]
The fifth annual Battle on the Border comes to Van Buren’s Blakemore Field July 23, and event organizers say the level of competition will be higher than ever before. Rick Smith, Drum Corps International tour event partner, said DCI decided that Van Buren would get Division I competitors, the highest level, at this year’s event. […]
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