Thurrock Marching Brass in conjunction with the Marching Band Activity UK Facebook Page entered into the record books today with confirmation that their joint effort to stage the Longest Line of Fanfare Trumpeters (valved Trumpeters) at the Thurrock Marching Brass hosted DCUK Essex Show on Sunday 7 September 2014 has been confirmed by Guinness World […]
City Sound Drum & Bugle Corps would like to announce its workshop and audition schedule for the 2015 DCI season. The hands-on workshops will be held on November 30, 2014 and December 7, 2014, at Cabrillo Youth Center, 3000 Shoshonean Rd, San Pedro, CA 90731, from 9am to 6pm.(Please bring a sack lunch) There is […]
City Sound is pleased to announce Darren Loney as Program Coordinator and Brass Caption Head and the return of other valuable brass staff members. City Sound is glad to welcome Mr. Darren Loney as City Sound’s new Brass Caption Head and Program Coordinator. Darren is currently the director of Instrumental Music at Gahr High School […]
Funeral services for World Drum Corps Hall of Fame member Earl Joyce Sr. were held the morning of Saturday, September 6 from Lawn Funeral Home in Burbank, Illinois with a funeral mass following at St. Louis de Montfort Church. Interment is in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Burbank, a southwestern suburb of Chicago. A veteran of […]
Frank Lozar, inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame as a charter associate member in 2001 then further honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award and regular member status in 2005, passed away early Sunday, September 7 at the age of 85. He was born on Independence Day July 4, 1929. His funeral will […]
After many months of planning, and for the first time in more than 25 years, Thurrock Marching Brass delivered an elite marching band competition and full day’s entertainment with style at the Aveley Football Club on Sunday 7 September 2014. The line-up consisted of eight Open class competing bands, three Junior class competitors (including our […]
Funeral services for World Drum Corps Hall of Fame charter member George Bull, one of six individuals inducted in the organization’s first ceremony in 1976, were held on Monday, September 8. He passed away on Wednesday, September 3. He is survived by his wife Betty S. Bull (nee Rose.) He was the devoted father of the […]
The inaugural winners of Wilf Blum $1,000 Youth Music Scholarships awarded by Scout House Band through the Waterloo Region boards of education include an elementary school student who is already teaching music theory to younger students; a high school jazz soloist who has been playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophone for six years in performances […]
The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps today announced the election of William Snook as Corps Director for a two-year term. Snook succeeds James C. Gruber, who retired from the helm of the Buccaneers organization after a 19-year tenure that saw him bring the corps back to prominence in the all-age drum corps circuit from […]
Following a well-received performance during the Alumni Spectacular field concert in Rochester, New York on Labour Day weekend, Scout House Band, of Cambridge, Ontario, is heading into a second season of field shows carrying on until the middle of October. The Alumni Spectacular, one of the events held during the Drum Corps Associates (DCA) championship […]
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