CONCORD DRUM & BUGLE CORPS has now confirmed their 2007 summer contest season entries. We remain fully committed to DCUK and will be appearing at all three regional shows and DCUK Finals. The corps will compete in the National Open Class. To complete our summer contesting schedule, CONCORD will be applying to enter two BYBA […]
Drum Corps Germany welcomes the Flying Drums of Hanover as a new member. The Flying Drums participated in 2006, after restructuring, in the Indoor Contest in Witzenhausen. Tthis year the Flying Drums will participate in a complete season in the Concert Class. We wish them a successful start and further success in the future. Read […]
Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased and proud to advise that one of their Vice Presidents, John Boyington, has been awarded a CBE in the 2007 Queen’s New Years Honours List in his role as Deputy Director General, Health and Care Partnerships and Programme Director, Health and Offender Partnerships, Department of Health. John was DCUK […]
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 […]
The 2007 Open European Concert Parade and Showband championships, will take place over the weekend of 27 to 29th July, and will be in Midsomer Norton and the historic and world heritage site, the City of Bath, England. Accommodation is available at a minimal cost to competing groups bands should initially email the championships promotions […]
The Pride of Soka Drum & Bugle Corps hosted the 2006 Drum Corps Japan (DCJ) Hachioji Open this past Saturday in Tokyo, Japan to a standing room crowd in Soka University’s Main Gymnasium. Six corps from around the Kanto Region participated in this annual event, with a special guest performance by the Soka Renaissance Vanguard […]
1 Yokohama Inspires（Div1 Champion） 2 The Yokohama Scouts 3 Tokyo Phoenix 4 Pride of Soka 5 Cherry Blossoms（Div2 Champion） 6 Sonic Lancers Read the rest of the article (in Japanese) here.
Trinity High School in Nottingham was the venue for the first ever Marching Boot Camp, an event designed to promote and encourage the principals of marching movement. 36 marching members and staff took part in the pilot event on December 2nd, led through a series of workshops, group challenges and games by a team of […]
The Drum Corps Netherlands Championships will be held in the FC Dordrecht stadium the next three years. DCN President Kees Bourquin and FC Dordrecht President Ad Heijsman signed a multi-year contract last Friday during a press conference at the stadium. Read the rest of the article (in Dutch) here.
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