After hosting THE BLUE WAY Audition Experience camps in Austin, TX, Canton, OH, Mission Viejo, CA, and Kennesaw, GA over the course of the last several weekends, the Bluecoats’ 2012 season is off to an excellent start! While the corps has historically held winter audition and rehearsal camps in their home city of Canton, 2012 […]
A contingent of more than 30 Blue Devils staff and members have embarked on a journey to Southeast Asia this week, traveling to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to present the organization’s “System Blue” educational series to an international audience. The group will be featured clinicians at the WBC International Band Camp during a three-day event hosted […]
Tickets are now available to sit in the Blue Stars’ block for the DCI World Championships, DCI Minnesota, DCI Southeastern Championship, and DCI Eastern Classic. New this year, we are able to tell you which section your tickets will be located, so you can buy with confidence that you are getting great seats! These tickets […]
The last thing a drum corps fan might expect to hear during the dog days of summer are strains of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” coming from a drum corps’ brass section. But believe it or not, this tune and many others with a holiday twist have been heard during DCI competitions over many […]
The December camp has officially been labeled a success by everyone involved. After the final performance on Sunday afternoon, George Hopkins took the time to speak with each section of the horn line to make sure everyone who auditioned knew exactly where they stood before they went home. The trumpet and baritone sections are now […]
Longtime Drum Corps International judge Tom Roe, passed away early Monday, Dec. 12 after a prolonged battle with leukemia. He was 65 years old. A music educator in the elementary, high school and university levels since 1965, Roe also served as an adjudicator for Winter Guard International and was the former assistant director of bands […]
The Spirit of Atlanta 2012 Audition Camp held this past weekend at New Manchester High School was a huge success. The number of people auditioning for the corps more than doubled since last year, with the biggest areas of growth being in the brass and color guard. A demanding rehearsal schedule concluded with all sections […]
As the December camp came to a close, the Cadets brass section played through the official 2012 parade tune, “We Need a Little Christmas,” and the Access producer Alex Giddings edited together a video montage from this weekend’s camp to put everyone into the mood. As we continue with the holiday spirit of the ’12.25’ […]
The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps is proud to welcome potential brass and percussion members, who were invited back from either the Chicago Area or Austin 2012 Clinic/Audition Camp, back to the Chicago Area for the 2012 January Call-Back Camp! Read the rest of the article here.
Camp is over, and the bus is headed to the airport. The Cadets woke up at 7:30 this morning and had an hour for breakfast, complete with the rest of the eggnog from yesterday. Stretching and some brief physical training followed, and then everyone split up into sectionals until 1:00 p.m. Read the rest of […]
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