The IMBA (Irish Marching Band Association) are delighted to announce that they will host the first ever DCE certified show in Ireland next summer. The IMBA are also pleased to announce that they will work closely in conjunction with DCUK to co-host this event. The show will take place in the south east coastal town […]
Drum Corps Europe is proud the present a fantastic corps line-up for the DCE Championships 2009. On Saturday 26th September, 21 corps will enter the field at the European Drum Corps Championships. From the Open Class top 10 of this year, only The Wölper Löwen will not return. The corps will not field a drum […]
Drum Corps Europe would like to invite all European corps to the DCE 2009 European Symposium. The event will be held on Saturday, January 24th in the London area. The symposium is open to all corps staff and board who are interested in Drum Corps Europe, the DCE Championships and the drum corps activity in […]
FB Drum & Bugle Corps from The Hague – The Netherlands have presented their new logo. The corps thought it was time for a new logo as the corps changed their name from Federatieband to FB Drum & Bugle Corps earlier this year. The corps from The Hague was looking for a modern replacement of […]
Campaigns are swinging into action across the region as eight groups in ITV West learned today that they have made it through to compete in The People’s Millions TV contest for Big Lottery Fund money worth £5 million. Five groups in the region will win awards of up to £50,000 each for their community project […]
Pride of Bristol are please to announce that they have entered into a Strategic Partnership with local education centre Filton College. The new group will be called the Pegasus Academy of Performing Arts, honouring the Engine produced in Filton by the Bristol Engine Company, then Rolls Royce when it acquired the firm in 1966. Pegasus’ […]
This Saturday, the registration for the DCE European Championships 2009 will begin. Corps will be able to register during the whole of November. The participants list will be published mid-December. Like in previous years, criteria will be used for selection (the criteria will be published when the registration starts). 2007 DCE Open Class finalists and […]
Marching Music France and Drum Corps Europe will enter a strategic partnership. Marching Music France is a new French music organisation, and one of their aims is to promote the drum corps style in their country. With education, Marching Music France wants to teach musicians ‘the drum corps way’ during national summer camps, with the […]
After a delay of many months, the DVDs and CDs of the DCE Championships 2007 are ready to ship next week. Due to illness of the staff member who was responsible for the sound, the post production of the DVDs and CDs was delayed. With the great help of Joe Rodwell (instructor and brass arranger […]
The webcast of the DCE European Championships last Saturday was a big success. More than 2300 drum corps fans watched the Drum Corps Europe webcast. Due to some connection problems the stream had some problems, mainly in the afternoon. In the evening the connection became better, and more fans tuned in. The highest total of […]
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