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☺️ I knew that when I said donors

I believe it’s May 24th, but not 100% on that.

Loved his instruction during my years in the Kingsmen Alumni Corps 05-08; he made me wish I had started marching DC a lot younger than I did.

I wondered what happened to you on fakebook.

I should have been a little more probing about where I was giving money in retrospect.

I know. I was being sarcastic to a dopey take on people wanting know what was going on with SCV.

I remember the day when an alumn of the Cadets said “I should volunteer with the Cadets”. That was the summer of 2006 and the beginning of a long love relationship with the Cadets that lasted close to twenty years. What started out as a week adventure turned into giving my whole summers to the Cadets. So that parents, alumni, staff, and volunteers could follow along with the Cadets I began writing a summer blog which ended up on a Cadets Facebook page highlighting our summer journey each day. My blog had many followers and developed into a large readership where every morning they could see where the corps was and how the competition went the night before. No matter how long the blog was or what time we arrived at our housing site after a long drive, I would always end each blog with “good morning and good night” Irving Fan of the Arts. As I try to write this article, it’s hard to believe The Garfield Cadets, The Holy Name Cadets,The Cadets of Burgen County, The Cadets no longer exist as an active drum corps affiliated with Drum Corps International. As people got to know me spending time with the Cadets every summer, they would ask when did I march Cadets and when did I fall in love with the Cadets. I have never marched as a Cadet but had been a fan of the Cadets even when I marched drum corps in the mid 70s. I don’t regret one minute that I spent with the Cadets. It’s just sad to know the Cadets will never field another dum corps to compete during the summer and that’s just a tough pill lot swallow. I have kept my volunteering alive giving my time to another drum corps with lots of history. I was talking with an alumn about his summer plans and he shared the plans of the Cadet alumn to sing the Corps song Holy Name in Allentown and Indy. That sounded like a great idea, and I said I may join them in Allentown to do that. Then when I tried singing Holy Name alone I burst into tears. As an honorary alumn of the Cadets, I can’t imagine how alumni must feel. I think about all the alumn I met over the years volunteering; them sharing their experience with me marching as a Cadet and there were many, especially Scotty and Dave Shaw. With a very heavy heart all I can say is “Holy Name Shall Always Be”! The Cadets will stay alive in my heart forever! Irving Fan of the Arts

Bless you child.

Bold! I don't see Crown losing to Mandarins, and Phantom Regiment gas some buzz. Glad you have Blue Stars higher. They should bounce back after the design dud last year. The guard and brass were very good, but the design didn't go over well. Blue Devils in first is the norm, so I have to agree that's where they'll be until someone else steps up, which I hope is Bluecoats. Good list!

Perspective donors do have a right to know

Madison had a super hero show that wasn't great.

Especially if a corps has their financial support.

It seems that Mike Duffy and Ken Norman shared a birthday, same day and year. Somehow, it makes total sense that these two giants were born under the same star. The old saying among drum corps veterans of a certain era was that if you never got to play Kenny’s “Auld Lang Syne” or Duffy’s […]View the full article

This Saturday, May 11th, join us for another rehearsal camp as we prepare for an exciting season ahead. Positions across our organization are still available. Fill out an interest form if you’d like to join us for the inaugural season of DCI All-Age! To all the moms out there, thank you for being our biggest […]View the full article

: ( RIP McDuff

Fans have a strange way of wanting to learn anything and everything they can about their favorites. Why would you not understand that?

Comedy gold.

New video

They've already teased it twice, yesterday and three days before. https://www.instagram.com/bluedevilsb/?hl=en

But will it be tomorrow or next week?

Yes!

New fundraiser just dropped: https://www.scvanguard.org/fueling-vanguard/

I never met Mike Duffy. But if you spent much time in the haunted spaces of "drum corps internet" over the past 30'ish years, you'd be hard pressed to find a guy that brought more humor and levity into the self-serious arguments that tend to fester in these communities. I'm going to make some time to peruse the old RAMD sinkhole and giggle at his contributions. If you get bored and want an idea of what it was like, and you don't mind inadequate search tools and terrible TEXT/HTML/ASCII translations, go to https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.marching.drumcorps/search?q=mcduffy&sortBy=DATE and do some poking around. Edit to recommend looking at the older posts, then you might avoid some of the more retched scum and villainy of RAMD. Although you'd miss this banger:

I anticipate that BDB will be next to announce their show.