Drum Corps Europe has revealed the date for the DCE Championships in 2007. Next year, the European Championships will be held on Saturday, September 29th. Every year, the DCE Championships are held on the last Saturday of September. This year is an exception, because the DCUK Championships are to be held in the weekend of […]
Drum Corps Europe is proud to announce a partnership with Up-Front Footwear, Inc., maker of Dinkles marching shoes. Located in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, DINKLES Marching Shoes have been worn by leading bands, drum & bugle corps, and color guards throughout the world. For 20 years, Up-Front Footwear has been producing what is considered to be the […]
The DCE Competition Manual has been upgraded from version 6.0 to version 6.1. The new manual is available as a PDF file and can be dowloaded free of charge from this website. In the new manual, a few typing errors that might cause confusion have been fixed (in the ‘contest rules’ section on page 4). […]
The Stadium Lille Metropole in Villeneuve d’Ascq in France will be the home for the 2006 Best of Bands festival. The event is scheduled for Sunday, June 25th, 2006. Although the Glassmen are unable to participate, music fans will have a unique opportunity to see many of the top groups in Europe perform at a […]
The European drum corps season will start today with an indoor contest in Witzenhausen – Germany. The contest is run by Drum Corps Germany and includes the German Individuals & Ensembles competition. The DCG indoor contest will feature the corps Black Panthers, Blue Bandits, Blue Diamonds, Fidele Vogelsanger, Flying Drums, Red Stars, Starriders, The Devils, […]
The DCE Competition Manual version 6.0 is ready for download. Besides a change in field set up, like announced last year, there are no major changes in the contest rules (compared to the previous version 5.1). The judging manual includes several changes though. From 2006 and beyond, the Color Guard caption will be included in […]
The first day of the ticket sale for the DCE Championships 2006 has been very succesful. Already 200 tickets have been ordered in the DCE webshop. This is a record setting number for Drum Corps Europe. This year, the European Championships will be held in the Sparta Stadium in Rotterdam – The Netherlands on Saturday, […]
For 2006 and beyond, the Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps hornline will use the AirMax Breather. The Breather is a device, intended to improve breathing for horn players, that offers different resistance levels in order to enlarge lung capacity and allow each performer to play better within the ensemble. Juliana from Middelburg – The Netherlands […]
The admission tickets for the DCE European Championships in Rotterdam – The Netherlands are now available. Orders are taken 24 hours a day in our webshop. There are two price levels: one for the centre section of the stand, and one for the other sections. Tickets for the centre section will be available for EUR […]
Drum Corps Europe has activated a new domain name: drumcorpseurope.org. This will be the new starting point from where visitors of the DCE website can proceed to their own language (English, Dutch, German or French). The old DCE website was hosted on the drumcorps.nl domain. The DCE management decided that a Dutch TLD (.nl) is […]
NEW on the DCP Forums