Four La Crosse area residents and a former drum instructor will be inducted this week into the La Crosse Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame. Headlining the second group of inductees are Joe and Avis Furlano of Onalaska, long-time Blue Stars’ volunteers who had five sons in the corps. Their son, Brad, […]
Needing a physical education credit for his high school, William Pichette went to a dance event at his high school and found out about the school’s color guard. While at a practice for the team, Pichette saw a recorded performance by the The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. “I knew from then it was my […]
Tuesday, 6/5, 8AM UPDATE Since this story first posted a little over 12 hour ago we’ve been able to pick up one driver from June 16-20 and one from July 8-23. And a few potential truck drivers. THANK YOU! But we have a few more slots to fill by adventuresome, drum corps-loving friends, but for […]
Members love to receive mail and care packages while on tour. Obviously, this can be problematic as we are constantly changing locations. So, packages must arrive at specified mail drop locations by the dates listed below. Mail received after these dates will not be delivered to members. Spirit of Atlanta and our mail hosts cannot […]
Drum Corps International’s Field Pass podcast presented by Zildjian delivers exclusive news, interviews, previews, feature stories and analysis of all things drum corps. Hosted by longtime DCI announcer Dan Potter, the Field Pass is back for the 2012 summer season with brand new episodes and a new format. Read the rest of the article here.
One of Georgia’s music ambassadors to the country just wrapped up two weeks of training in Gainesville over the weekend. Riverside Military Academy hosted the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps as it prepared for a summer of competition across the U.S. Think marching band, subtract the woodwinds and push it to an unimaginable […]
Storms delayed the Cadets Drum &?Bugle Corps’ annual show Sunday at F.W. Herlinger Field in Richland. But once the skies opened up, the Cadets stood under a rainbow, entertaining a crowd of approximately 300 to well-known classics such as “Carol of the Bells” and “Silent Night.” That’s right. Christmas in June. Read the rest of […]
Jay Bocook, the musical arranger for both Cadets and Cadets2, will spend his weekend split between Pennsylvania rehearsal camps listening in and working with both corps’ staffs on his arrangements for the 2012 programs. First, Jay will take in the sights and sounds on Saturday with the team at South Mountain Middle School in Allentown, […]
Since The Cadets started coming to Johnstown for spring training in 2008, the weather that first week has been consistently miserable. The temperature is in the forties and it’s drizzling at breakfast time; the soggy, overcast day never quite reaches 60. “Well, you know that lovely weather that normally greets us that first week or […]
The motto of the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps is “Finis Coronate Opus.” Loosely translated the Latin phrase means, “the end crowns the work.” The 150-member corps of La Crosse, Wis., has been holding its spring training camp in Forest City and Waldorf College since May 18. Read the rest of the article here.
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