The Nexus organisation and Encore Drum & Bugle Corps today announce they have formed a partnership to launch a new junior drum corps unit to be based in Sandy, Bedfordshire. The launch sees the Encore name return to youth marching music activity for the first time since 2003. The corps previously had a very successful […]
The first DCE Certified Show in France will take place next year. The contest will be organised by the Marching Music France organisation and will be hosted in the Claude Riguidel stadium in Quiberon. The contest is organised in collaboration with Kadoudal Drum & Bugle Corps. After their participation in the DCE Championships in Kerkrade […]
Since October the vacancy for Corps Director of Beatrix? has been filled. The members were happily and surprised when it was announced that Constant Labrie is the new Corps Director for Beatrix? Drum & Bugle Corps. Constant Labrie is well known at Beatrix?. When he was seven he started as a member of the percussion […]
In the summer of 2011 The Company will present a production entitled ‘COLD’. Since the close of the season at The BYBA Championships in Stoke there has been plenty of work going on behind the scenes at The Company to prepare the corps for their second season in competition. The Company describes the new show […]
After a succesful competition season, the decision to fold came all of a sudden. The new programme was already in progress, the corps members were ready for the new season and seeking for new members. Financially, Heartliner have always had quite a heavy task to manage. Due to this fact, the corps’s next-season show entitled […]
Beatrix Drum & Bugle Corps wants to get back in the lead. To achieve this, the board has presented a ‘vision plan’. Time, patience and a consistent policy are needed to reach this goal, says President Gerard Eijlers. Although the rumours that Beatrix is having a difficult time are not true, the Beatrix Chairman understands […]
Beatrix? is proud to present the 2011 brass staff team. The seven-man team all consists of people with very different backgrounds but they all have one passion? Beatrix?. Captionhead and instructor for the trumpets, Elmar Zwart, has been with Beatrix? since 1995. Before that, he marched with Jong Beatrix for seven years. In his ?drumcorps […]
Today, registration for the DCE European Championships 2011 has started. Corps will be able to register during November. The participants list will be published mid-December. Like last year, criteria will be used for selection. If, by the end of the month, there are still places available, the registration deadline will be extended until the event […]
The only real ‘tour shirt’ of the European Music Games 2010 that could be purchased this year at the European contests is a single print run. There are still a few shirts left, which will be sold through the DCE webshop in the near future. Act fast, because they are only available as long as […]
Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps from Middelburg – The Netherlands has announced its new show programme. Next year, the reigning Dutch champions will perform the show ‘NOX’, in which all facets of the night are shown. In ‘NOX’, sleeping, dreaming, parties and temptation come to the fore, but the show also takes a trip to […]
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