Drum Corps Europe will organize a large-scale training session for judges in Bristol for this coming weekend. Dozens of judges from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium will be taking part in the ‘Judges College’. The DCE Competition Manual and the judging philosophy will be dealt with in depth over two days. This will […]
A one-off performance by a ‘mega-corps’ with percussionists and color guards. This is the project that show corps Harpe Davids hopes to get off the ground this year. The club is inviting percussionists and color guards from all over Europe to take part in this initiative. The project to set up a mega-corps is not […]
The European drum corps organizations are currently working towards using the same judging manual from 2007/08. In addition, a working party will be set up to investigate the possibilities to create uniformity in the rules and regulations of all competitions, and to create a European Committee of Judges. It is hoped the current DCE manual […]
Bristol, UK was the venue for an extremely well attended seminar that covered the entire process of the Drum Corps Europe Competition Manual, concentrating on the responsibilities of the judging system, the philosophies of its application, and the physical system itself were presented by a very capable DCE judging administration and training team, lead by […]
For the first time, Drum Corps Europe will be holding a major judges seminar in the UK. This coming weekend, several British judges will be traveling to Bristol to take part in a seminar organized by DCE. Besides other topics, the DCE Competition Manual will also be dealt with in detail. Some British judges are […]
This year, the DCE European Championships will once again be held in the Sparta Rotterdam Stadium. This week, Drum Corps Europe and Sparta completed the final details of the agreement. On Saturday 29th September 2007, Sparta will be hosting the European Championships for the third consecutive year. "We are delighted to be in Rotterdam again", […]
Again a special weekend for the entire corps. All three sections had a special rehearsal scheduled for today, and again huge steps were made. The day started with an outdoor m&m training for the horns, at a fine location nearby the Dudok Arena where Beatrix has held all of their hometown shows over the past […]
It has taken a week longer than scheduled, but delivery of the DVDs and CDs of the DCE European Championships 2006 will begin next week. The final details of the production are now being completed. Producing the DVDs and CDs is a major task requiring a couple of months; a few DCE employees donate many […]
All European organisations active in the drum corps activity have asked Rob van Koningshoven to consider a name change of his organisation DCEE (Drum Corps Events Europe). The European allies are worried that the name could cause confusion inside and outside Europe. Marcel Matthijsse, the chairman of Drum Corps Europe, was astonished when he heard […]
Drum Corps Europe has presented the list of participants for the DCE Championships 2007. Many well-known top corps have once again signed up to compete for the European title, whilst a few interesting new participants will also be performing. This coming year will see drum corps competing from the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden […]
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