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Paramount Winterguard, from Atlanta, GA, will be having auditions for its third competitive season Sunday, September 30, from 9a-6p! Paramount is an Independent World Class Winterguard, and is excited to be a showcase for some of the Southeast's best and brightest performers. More detailed information can be found on our website, www.paramountwg.org, or on our official Facebook Page. Visit our website! "Like" us on Facebook!

Paramount is an Atlanta-based Independent World winterguard, founded to provide a positive, life-changing performance experience for its members, volunteers, and staff. Come be a part of our inaugural season in 2011! Auditions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 12pm-9pm and on Sunday, Sept. 12, from 9am-3pm at Pope High School in Marietta, GA. Callbacks and our second audition weekend will be Oct. 2 & 3. Please be prepared to pay a $35 audition fee when you arrive. Audition Fees are cash only and non-refundable. Wear comfortable, dark dance attire and bring your own weapons, if possible. More information can be found on our website, www.paramountwg.org. Also, feel free to contact us with any questions at info@paramountwg.org. Hope to see you there! Visit Our Website

In an effort to "look on the bright side" of things, I wanted to reach out on a personal level to help find things that remind us all what is so awesome about EVERYTHING that is drum corps. I know there are many discussions about "what's wrong with", "what's annoying about", "what's disappointing in", and "what's destroying" the activity. I know that all are entitled to their own opinions and I do appreciate expression. However, sometimes in the details of who dislikes whom, which show, which year, and which music, costume, drill or whatever, we forget to also appreciate the magic that's always there, all around us, EVERY year. So, I just wanted to share my top three magical things (for today) about the activity--things with which I fall in love, every year all over again. This is my seventeenth summer involved in the activity and, many times over the course of a summer, I'm swept away by even the simplest of things that remind me how much I still get out of it all. Feel free to add yours, too. I just wanted to have a zone to visit on DCP that is ONLY filled with the good stuff. Thanks! 1) Warming up at shows as the sun slowly sets and you feel the electricity of the night (and the stadium lights come on!). It's usually peaceful and still, and you can actually "feel" the flavor of whichever small town you're in. Although you wonder if you may ever be standing in that spot again, for that short time you belong to it. 2) The sense of attachment that a section recognizes as they walk onto a field together. In unspoken looks and head nods, you're ready to "be in the moment" with these people--some of which you've only known for a few weeks. 3) Hearing the corps play through the show for the first time. After being away from it during the winter months (if you're a guard person), the intensity of the brass and percussion together gets me pumped EVERY time.

Thanks for your positive support Will! While you are correct in your quote regarding placements for the Lassiter WG for those years, I can't take credit for things I didn't do. The Lassiter guard was under the direction of Barry Lloyd during those years. I was performing with the Emerald Marquis winterguard from '95-'99, and taught there in 2000. I was the director of the Lassiter CG from fall 2000- winter 2002. Thanks again for the support, though! :) rick