Before you complain about walking to your car in 100-degree heat, think about the participants in Drums Across Cajun Field. These musicians have spent weeks of 14-hour days marching and playing under the summer sun. They sleep on high school gym floors in the cities they visit. These challenges are part of their efforts to […]
The Woodgrove Marching Wolverines and the Woodgrove Music and Arts Association will host the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps from Rosemont, IL, July 27-29. All rehearsals are free and open to the public at the high school in Purcellville. The best time to watch full ensemble rehearsals will be at the stadium on July 27 […]
Rising Tides summarizes the past week of tour with in-depth reviews and interviews of Pacific Crest staff and members. We are grateful to alumnus John Riley for writing these stories! Utah – July 6, 2015 This is what the membership has been waiting for. Sure, tour started in mid-June, but the night of July 5, […]
In this episode of Inside Pacific Crest, corps director Stuart Pompel talks about the move of Corps at the Crest to the Rose Bowl. The episode also features performance footage of Pacific Crest from the show. Watch the video here.
Drum Corps International rehearsals in Minnesota have begun for marching bands. The regional competition will be on Saturday at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. The Blue Devils from California are the 2014 world champions and have already won on the East Coast. As far as Saturday goes, the Blue Devils have supposedly beefed […]
At 3:30 am on the morning of July 9, four buses rolled quietly into town carrying 150 young musicians traveling together with the Spirit of Atlanta Drum Corps. In Pine Bluffs they found a place to rest, practice and prepare for their next competition in Laramie. A fifth truck, the food truck, parked and quickly […]
A lively crowd sat in the bleachers as seven of the top drum and bugle corps in the country performed during the Drums Across Nebraska event held Monday evening at Heedum Field. Sponsored by the non-profit organization Drum Corps International, thousands of students ages 16-21 audition to make one of 26 corps that travel around […]
The Drum Corps International Tour arrived in Minnesota on Saturday at TCF Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus. Twenty drum corps teams from around the U.S., including three from Minnesota, featured elite brass musicians, percussionists and color guard performers. Judy Griesedieck caught some of the action. See more photos here: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/… Watch the video […]
This week concludes with DCI’s first Premier Event! Sunday, July 12 – Rehearsal – Kearney HS, Kearney, NE Monday, July 13 – Show: Fremont, NE Tuesday, July 14 – Rehearsal – Mustang HS, Mustang, OK Wednesday, July 15 – Show: Mustang, OK Read the rest of the article here.
Matt Malone, 18, of West Chester will be forgoing much of the laziness that comes with summer vacation, to perform with South Jersey’s Jersey Surf drum corps in a cross-country tour. Malone graduated this year from Bayard Rustin High School, and had been a member and leader of the school’s band all four years. Malone […]
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