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Happy New Year to all the members, staff, alumni and fans of the Boston Crusaders. This is the 84th New Years Day the Crusaders organization has been around for! Those original Crusaders would now be over 100 if any of them were still around. May their spirits continue to watch over the current members! Eat'em Up, Boston!

Crown fam, happy new years! May this year bring you all amazing things and a championship to our favorite corps!

Jim Wren’s arranging is so powerful and just true enough to original score. The only arranger to make a brass line sound like the CSO… the Leopold Stokowski of DCI, and Dan Farrell made that horn line emotional and LOUD. Both made “dark, rich and soulful” a trademark I long to hear again.

As with any major American holiday, if there’s a parade, there’s a good chance a drum corps is or was a part of it at some point. This is just as true for the New Year holiday, even though it’s pretty much the midpoint between the end of the previous season and the start of the next one. https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/31/drum-corps-ringing-in-the-new-year/

All I can say is -- wholeheartedly agree. Crown fans should book their hotel rooms for Indy. Don't want to miss this one!

Maybe next year align with the actual 12 days of Christmas? 😁 Anyway this seems like a good place to talk about the Rose Parade bands! Toho Marching Band from Japan was fantastic. Even did drill in the TV zone. Castle HS sounded fantastic as did William Mason...who had ranks NAILING that hard greater than 90 degree turn with a wide inside arc to guide ranks.

On my personal favorite list for sure! I played a concert band arrangement of the finale complete with piano and pipe organ at a church in NJ. It was amazing. The marching band I taught from 1994-2018 did the finale in 1995. John "Screetch" Arietano did the wind book and I wrote the battery book.

In 1979, Tim Salzman and yours truly designed this horn. https://imgur.com/trAYe2Z SCV, 27th, Madison, BD and the San Jose Raiders all had a section of tromboniums. If you scored and played it like a trombone, it sounded like a trombone. If you played it like a baritone, it sounded like a constricted baritone. Hornlines were a lot smaller then and most arrangers simply wanted the darker bari sound, so these fell out of favor except for solos.

https://dci.org/news/spotlight-of-the-week-1990-phantom-regiment oh yum! Happy New Year everyone!

Thanks, KG, for posting your 12 days of Christmas and this end of the year tribute.

Sinnerman, Unholy, where are we headed?

Great to see it