DCW Open Class Newsfeed

by Rich Conti, Drum Corps World staff (richburgher [at] yahoo [dot] com) August 4, 2011 – Johnsonburg, PA . . . An absolutely gorgeous evening and a large and ravenous drum corps crowd set the stage for the second “Blast in the Burg” DCI Open Class competition, with a line-up that boasted eight corps, including three of the top [...] View the full article

by Kevin Gamin, Drum Corps World staff and Drum Corps Planet managing editor August 6, 2011 – Erie, PA . . . It was a weekend of upsets in Erie, PA. On Saturday evening, the Oregon Crusaders upset Blue Devils B, taking top honors at the “Lake Erie Fanfare’s” Open Class competition. The trend continued [...] View the full article

by William Aldrich-Thorpe, Drum Corps World staff (aldrichthorpe [at] gmail [dot] com) August, 6 2011 — Allentown, PA . . . On this very wet and threatening evening, the Blue Devils barely edged the Cadets by a smallest of margins — a one-half tenth of a point! That is 0.050 of a point difference. Two amazing programs, two superior [...] View the full article

With just two two days to go before the DCI Eastern Regional in Allentown, PA, this show at West Chester University gave a great preview of what we can expect Friday and Saturday Night. It was wonderful to see old friends from the Midwest and the West Coast way out here in Pennsylvania once again. [...] View the full article

A rain-shortened “Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival” drum corps competition did not dampen the enthusiasm of the over 7,000 in attendance. This year’s competition also saw the largest amount of high school band programs attending (13) than in the past. Although the host Bluecoats, along with The Cadets and Phantom Regiment, did not perform, [...] View the full article

The Cavaliers easily outdistanced the Phantom Regiment this evening with their powerful and unusual production titled “XtraordinarY.” The Rosemont, IL, corps led across all of the major captions and took all but one sub caption for nearly a clean sweep. What a fantastic evening of drum corps. The weather was nearly perfect and the crowd [...] View the full article

Crown lit up the sky with phenomenal aerial color guard tricks while filling the night air with their outstanding “Rach Star” production. This night notched the corps with their highest score this season and the top of the leaderboard as they head northward to their DCI Eastern Classic performance on Saturday. This night was heads [...] View the full article

The four letter word that drum corps fans and show sponsors hate the most happened at Dietz Memorial Stadium this evening as a steady and sometimes heavy rain fell on the fifteenth annual “March of Champions.” The show was sponsored by the Children’s Home of Kingston as a field of seven DCA corps performed at [...] View the full article

The fight for the DCI Open Class championship got a lot more interesting after the scores were announced at the 2011 “Lake Erie Fanfare,” one of four seeding events for quarterfinals in just two days. The Oregon Crusaders, previously neck and neck with Blue Devils B all season, had yet to pass them. The OC [...] View the full article

by Bruno Bergeron, Drum Corps World staff (brunobergeron [at] earthlink [dot] net) July 8, 2011 — Loveland, CO . . . Thanks to George and Lynn Lindstrom, and their staff, the Loveland edition of “Drums Along the Rockies” was a huge success and the shows presented were the most thorough and efficient I have seen since we had the [...] View the full article

by Bill Flaker, Drum Corps World staff (wrflaker [at] aol [dot] com) July 9, 2011 — Wayne, NJ . . . Passaic County Technical Institute was jam-packed as the Reading Buccaneers kept their long undefeated streak intact while sailing to victory at the 47th annual “Drum Corps Grand Prix” sponsored by the Hawthorne Caballeros. Weather conditions were perfect as [...] View the full article

by Kevin Gamin, Drum Corps World staff, managing editor of Drum Corps Planet (editor [at] dcpnews [dot] com) July 5, 2011 – Dublin, OH . . . Four straight nights of shows in the Buckeye State kicked off in the Columbus suburban enclave of Dublin with the 2011 edition of the “Emerald City Music Games.” The Cavaliers, more “Green [...] View the full article

by Jim Claytor, Drum Corps World staff (drumcorpsworldjim [at] yahoo [dot] com) July 1, 2, 3, 2001 – San Diego, Walnut and Riverside, CA — The Santa Clara Vanguard rolled into Southern California this weekend, pumped up and ready to climb that “Devils Staircase” to the top! Improving over a point since their Stockton show just a few days [...] View the full article

by Ron Baysinger, Drum Corps World staff (BNMB [at] aol [dot] com) July 6, 2011 — Centerville, OH . . . A warm but beautiful night was the setting for the 32nd annual “Soaring Sounds.” The only thing missing was the hot air balloon that usually soars over the stadium at the beginning of the evening. The one thing [...] View the full article

by Bill Flaker, Drum Corps World staff (wrflaker [at] aol [dot] com) June 27, 2001 – Bridgeport, CT . . . The 2011 DCI New England tour opened up in grand fashion this evening with a large crowd on hand at Kennedy Stadium. The weather was perfect, while fellow DCW staff writer Timothy “Ace” Holleran served as the emcee [...] View the full article