Drum Corps United Kingdom/British Youth Band Association and the British Federation of Youth Marching Band Organisations have been contacted by Blue Devils of Concord, California, USA to advise that unfortunately they will not be able to travel to Europe in 2009. Over the past few months much work had taken place to try and enable […]
Following nominations being received and a postal election process being completed, Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce details of their Board for 2009. The four Board members from 2008 had all been nominated to remain in office for a further term and therefore Joe Fitzpatrick, Chris Jones, Jason Oates and Rob Swindells will […]
Black Knights Drum and Bugle Corps have this week appointed a new Corps Director. Rus Rogers will be taking over the role following the departure of Ken Mansfield. Ken made the difficult decision to stand down as corps director following changes in his personal circumstances, which would have made it very difficult to commit his […]
In 2009 not three, but five Marching Open Class units will advance to finals. CGN has decided this to make sure the Percussion contingent in finals will be more even. CGN strives to bring a finals eveningevent of the highest possible quality. With the growth in quality the Marching Open Class has shown the last […]
The Scout Hut Development project was awarded a cheque for £50,000 from the peoples million live on ITV News West. The money will see the replacement of an old, out of date and increasingly unsafe hall that makes up part of the group’s premises. The new hall will enable the group to offer a wider […]
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 […]
As the first show & music organization in the world, CGN will release the 2009 Championships DVD’s on Blu-ray. Blu-ray offers a much higher image- and sound quality and more performances fit on one disc, so we need less of those. Blu-ray is relatively new. The discs can only be played on a special Blu-ray […]
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 […]
Representatives from all Drum Corps are welcome to attend whether they are interested in taking part in any of the DCUK events in 2009 or simply to find out more the Drum Corps activity in the UK. DCUK have received enquiries from over 20 different Corps regarding the 2009 season, most of these enquiries have […]
Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to be able announce their contest dates for their 30th Anniversary season. All three of the contests have received "bids" from show sponsors to run the events (in fact two of the dates have had more than one bid) but to ensure that any other potential interested parties have […]
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