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Sean Walsh

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    West Coast Cadets 84/85 Thurrock Marching Brass 86 Pride of Bristol 86-94 Harrison NJ Bushwackers 1990
  • Your Favorite Corps
    New England Defenders
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    L'insolite 94
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1990 (DCA)/1993 DCUK

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  1. I would have thought as a framework product DCA has more to realistically offer people not just in its domestic marketplace but worldwide and the model seems to be having a positive international impact. I speak from the perspective of being one of the first non North americans to march a season in DCA In terms of the US DCA corps people can have a meaningful, and at the top end, very signifigant, drum corps experience without breaking the bank, giving up friends and family or harming their education (assuming they are not music majors) or careers. I marched when I was 23 in 1990. In most European countries there are no marching programs and no long summers off of school so at that time if you wanted to march in a US corps at a good level, unless you were exceptional you were approaching or past age out before you were good enough. I was 23 before I hade a hope in hell of making a good line so it had to be a DCA corps. And what a line it turned out to be! DCI/DCA marchers from the 80's and 90's had taken back their experience, passed it on and younger European members are now I understand the norm. but a good DCA corps is still a vialble option for many who are that little bit older In terms of the future, with the pace of life as it is worldwide, surely the DCA model is more sustainble in the US and elsewhere? Drum Corps Europe, the only circuit in Europe that is growing is a DCA all age set up. The other Junior circuits seen to have collapsed as they do not have the school system to support it and bottom line played unrecognisable music alien to their cutures=no public interest. Thanks to DCE this is changing, and i think in turn this is because of reference to DCA and the member corps In terms of the greater good, DCA as an organisation can only be a competative framework. Corps are not "franchises" and will operate, sink or swim as they see fit. It is not for the circuit to interfere is sovereign organisations affairs. Bottom line, its growing in popularity so something works Sean Walsh Bush 90
  2. i think the other guy gave you a run down on the instrumentation. These bands were trditionally linked to heavy industry, particularily coal mines. Up until the mid eighties when this industry was decimated by the Tharcher government each pit had its own band. This pits are now gone but some of the bands exist still. Grimethorpe is one example of a top quality group. The members were typically the workforce with raw talent. Generaly apart from the odd parade theydid not march. Very much a British phenomanon and still popular but not perhaps the local amateur community thing they once were. Much like US drum corps If you get the movie BRASSED OFF with Euan McGregor that will give an insight into the bands,and their history and politics. Its damm funny as well. Generally acepted as better than THE FULL MONTY> Came out around the same time but without a good US distributor. So noone out there got to see it!! The Band in that called "Grimly Colliery" in the move is actually Grimethorpe (apart from the actors that is!!_
  3. John, there were a couple in the 90's in the Dublin Area. The 1st Irish Lancers and the Emerald Regiment. Now both gone. I believe there is still one in a town called Arklow run by a couple of guys called Neil Cristopher and Cyril Gantly. You could look up the town website and go from there. Cheers Sean Walsh Bush 1990
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