Newly named corps director, Doug Oravez, has excitedly announced the design team for the Connecticut Hurricanes for 2012. Jim Dugan returns as show/staff coordinator while Dennis Argul returns as brass arranger. Mike Schmidt once again will be the percussion arranger and Mike Wyatt will handle the front percussion ensemble arrangements. John Lemire will handle the […]
Funeral services will be held for World Drum Corps Hall of Fame member John Manlove on Monday, October 10 at 11 am at the Johnson Funeral Home, P.A., 8521 Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson, Maryland. Interment will be in Parkwood Cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to […]
The five winners of $1,000 scholarships from the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame are using the funds to prepare for careers as down to earth as elementary school education and as far-reaching as aerospace engineering. The names of the scholars receiving a boost to their studies were announced during the Hall of Fame’s recent […]
Another exciting season brings the Core into 2012 having achieved a top ten placement. As the staff, membership and administration prepares for the 2012 season that will conclude in Annapolis MD, Fusion continues into its 6th season providing championship caliber music education and color guard/dance performance opportunities to its membership. Our 2012 production, “The Hit”, […]
Fresh off of winning its third Drum Corps Associates (DCA) Class A championship, the Govenaires Drum and Bugle Corps plans to expand its visual and brass staff. The St. Peter-based group is looking for experienced instructors to help improve on the gains made last year. Besides winning the 2011 Class A crown in Rochester N.Y., […]
Fall traditionally marks the beginning of the new drum corps season and the New York Skyliners Alumni Drum & Bugle Corps is looking forward to a great one in 2012. It all starts with our OPEN HOUSE where you can check us out, meet the staff, sit in and play, and enjoy some food / […]
Bob Adair, who was inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame in 1984, passed away on September 21, 2011 at the age of 76. His funeral service was held September 27 at John F. Givnish Funeral Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, followed by private interment. A resident of Southampton, but formerly of Philadelphia, he […]
More than 80 marching musicians, ranging from high school students to alumni corps veterans, enjoyed a day of learning, sitting down to lunch together and performing for each other at the end of the day during the “Time to Step Out” Scout House Alumni Band’s recent instruction clinics. About half those attending were Scout House […]
The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps is pleased to announce the team of exceptionally talented designers and instructors who will lead the corps’ production and educational program for 2012. The group, comprised entirely of veteran Buccaneers, is already hard at work assembling another world-class program sure to entertain fans and provide members with a […]
The Company are the new DCE 2011 European Champions. They were crowned last night in front of a packed stand at the DCE European Championships in Kerkrade – The Netherlands. The Kidsgrove Scouts came in second place, before the Dutch corps Juliana (3th), Jubal (4th) and Beatrix (5th). Four UK corps made it into the […]
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