The Blue Knights will be replacing their mobile kitchen trailer after 24 years of service for the 2017 Drum Corps International season. What would your kitchen look like after 1.6 million meals? The Blue Knights Food Trailer has served over 1.6 million meals and traveled over 250,000 miles in its 25 years of service. Read […]
What exactly is drum corps? “It’s running backwards at 200 beats per minute while playing Rachmaninoff,” Dan Potter says. Potter should know. He spends nearly every weekend for up to six months a year traveling around the country to announce shows and competitions for Drum Corps International and Bands of America. Read the rest of […]
Fuse (www.fuse.tv), a national television network for the fast-growing, Latino and multicultural 18-34 audience, today announced that it will premiere the new 8-part half-hour docu-series Clash of the Corps on Wednesday, October 5 at 11 p.m. ET/PT. Executive produced by Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia along with 44 Blue Productions’ […]
A new documentary series produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson chronicling the intense battle for the Drum Corps World Championships wraps Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium. But the members of the Blue Devils haven’t paid much attention to the Fuse “Clash of the Corps” crew and cameras. Read the rest of the article here.
It’s been an exciting marching season. Show after show, the Canton Bluecoats have found themselves in the winner’s circle. The orange and black of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium was blanketed in white as fans of the Bluecoats flooded the stands of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium on Monday to catch a glimpse of the musicians and […]
It’s been an exciting marching season. Show after show, the Canton Bluecoats have found themselves in the winner’s circle. The orange and black of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium was blanketed in white as fans of the Bluecoats flooded the stands of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium on Monday to catch a glimpse of the musicians and […]
YEA! began in 1990 as an off-shoot of The Cadets. At the time, the staff consisted of George Hopkins and an administrative team of just three. Today, it operates a range of programs serving young people, and its offices in Allentown house up to 30 staffers depending on the time of year. YEA!’s year-round programs […]
It is with great sadness in my heart and tears in my eyes I write the following sentence: Gary Tollers has passed away. Gary was an important person in the Blue Stars organization. He was a long-term member of our board of directors, the head of our souvenir program, the chairperson of our three River […]
Spirit of Atlanta is very proud to announce that we have surpassed our 2016 target for our annual campaign “40-40-40: Invest In Spirit”! The total represents an amazing outpouring of support for the corps in honor of our 40th Anniversary season. We thank everyone who contributed to this campaign in any way – and there […]
The sound of beating drums and the harmonic pitches of brass instruments filled the air Thursday night at Crusader Stadium at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB). Twelve teams of Drum Corps International (DCI) convened on the campus of UMHB to compete in DCI Central Texas before heading to San Antonio for the next competition. […]
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