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 schedule for the 2006 season has been amended, from seven shows to five plus Finals. The first show of the season, due to be held at Grantham on June 4th, has unfortunately been cancelled. Due to circumstances beyond DCUK’s control the Grantham venue is no longer available. Due to the short notice and 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). […]
I regret to announce that Southern Aurora have withdrawn from competition for the foreseeable future. After a series of set backs in the past two months, it has become clear that the show we had written cannot be performed by the members we have. Whilst we could have pushed the members to a level of […]
Witzenhausen, Germany Drum Corps Germany May 13, 2006 Drum Corps Klasse Wölper Löwen (38,25 Punkte) Starriders (36,43) Fidele Vogelsanger (35,03) Flying Drums (30,20) Blue Diamonds (28,05) Blue Bandits (25,85) Red Stars (23,70) Black Panthers (21,10) Marching Band Klasse The Devils (29,80) Read the rest of the article here.
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 […]
Last Saturday, Wölper Löwen Drum & Bugle Corps from Neustadt won the first Drum Corps Germany contest of the 2006 season in Witzenhausen. The corps scored 38,25 points, two points ahead of the Starriders from Bad Münder. Wölper Löwen took also the Music Effect, Visual Effect, Ensemble Music and Brass Performance captions. The Starriders came […]
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, […]
(Translated via AltaVista Babel Fish) The jury manual of the group Music In Motion (AK MIB) so far contains no defined evaluation boxes for Percussion performance. In order to make the interpretation of the scores simpler, the Percussion jury will fall back this season to the box system from the Drum Corps Europe jury manual. […]
Saturday night, the equipment truck of the Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps from Gravesend was stolen. The truck had the entire battery and some brass instruments on board. On Sunday, the truck was recovered and still driveable. "No sooner had word got out than I had several phone calls all offering support and instruments", […]
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