There’s nothing like the Fourth of July to break up the monotony of tour, and there’s no better place to spend July 3 and 4 than Bristol, RI. The Cadets housed right on the bay at Roger Williams University, where they had a somewhat normal rehearsal/show day on July 3—except that many instructors took their […]
More than a decade after it disbanded, the Royal Knights Drum and Bugle Corps is forming again in Manitowoc, this time called the N.E.W. Royal Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, with N.E.W. standing for Northeast Wisconsin. “So far we’ve got 65 kids already interested,” said Rick Specht, executive director of the corps and president of […]
Sunny skies will greet drum corps fans and performers on Saturday, July 7 when the Drum Corps: An American Tradition event steps off at Jackson Liberty HS in Jackson, NJ. However, temperatures are forecast to be in the 90’s with high humidity, which in turn, has led the team at YEA! and DCI to postpone […]
Vanguard is now offering you a FREE FIVE-DAY HOLIDAY PREVIEW of SCV-TV, beginning July 4 through Sunday, July 8. If you like what you see and want to see MORE 2012 video segments of Vanguard, Vanguard Cadets, Vanguard Winter Guard, Vanguard Winter Percussion, as well as HOURS of archival footage from our forty-five years of […]
For members, staff, volunteers, and fans, Pioneer has made available the schedule book for their 2012 season. The book can be viewed on the Pioneer website or downloaded in PDF format. Read the rest of the article here.
The Fort Edward school district provided emergency housing over the weekend to a drum corps that was stranded in the area after the Adirondack Drums competition on Friday because of a dispute with its bus company. And the Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department allowed another drum corps to use its kitchen and barbecue pit last week, […]
KUSA-TV in Denver has posted a photo album of the Blue Knights performing their 2012 program, AVIAN, on their website. View the photos here.
Don’t miss your last chance to catch Drum Corps International on the big screen in 2012! For its ninth year, Drum Corps International, Marching Music’s Major League™, returns to movie theaters nationwide with the annual event DCI 2012: Big, Loud & Live 9 on Thursday, Aug. 9 at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. Featuring a […]
Yesterday marked The Cadets’ second and final day in Meriden, CT for the second time this summer, and the corps’ rehearsal schedule looked similar to all the others in that location. The brass and pit spent the full day at the stadium, while the drums and guard stayed at the housing site until ensemble. Ensemble […]
Muscatine-area residents weren’t the only ones to voice delight Sunday night at Muscatine’s first Drum Corps International presentation, Percussion on the Pearl. Drum Corps International contest coordinator Pat Flynn of Kalamazoo, Mich., said she was very impressed with Muscatine. Read the rest of the article here.
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