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Nope. They did not sponsor us. I marched 1980 and many of the members in 1981 left to go to the Garfield Cadets (me included) and many of us were there for the Garfield run from 1981 to 1985 and beyond. Al DiCroce taught me to play baritone (I was a HS sax player with no chops for mellophone) and has been a great friend ever since. Brigade's hornline was simply amazing. DiCroce, Simpson, Kerschner were our brass instructors/arrangers. If I remember right, on filed brass in 1980 we score "in finals" too bad we couldn't march our way into the ocean from the beach. = )

Royal Brigade 1980

Thanks for all of the emails and PMs. If you live in this geography and want to help out, please feel free to contact me. There is some great talent out there, waiting for their opportunity.... Could this be yours?

What instrumentation do you need? PM me and I can give you more details.

Contact me if you have interest via PM. Work with a local NJ DCA drum corps in the summer and also earn extra money through band camps that I cannot attend in the area. Northern NJ, Allentown area.

Good luck Ron. I have high regard for your work.

Wow. Some great responses. Please do not stop submitting resumes. If you have experience, you might be qualified to be the caption head, IF YOU WANT TO LEARN TO TEACH, please email me at ericsabach@aol.com and you might be a great candidate to be a tech. Thanks again for your responses. Eric Sabach

If you want to learn the dot based system that the Phantom Regiment and many other drum corps employ, I would love the opportunity to share that information with you as part of the Skyliner visual team and help be a part of making you a better visual instructor or helping you with your first drum corps teaching experience. Feel free to email me at ericsabach@aol.com if you are interested in a teaching position with the New York Skyliners.

Steve, You are right. A number of smaller corps have already contacted me, along with a few DCA corps... I was hoping for that, rather than the top of div 1.

Maybe contact the times-picayune or nola.com and find out the school and information. Maybe it is a "save the music" sort of situation.

Hey Steve, Good hearing from you. Won't be 5k per parade, but they can make some very serious money doing 3+ parades in a long weekend. Pioneer came down in 2004 and from what I understand had a good experience. They were in my Krewes (Excalibur) parade and did a GREAT job! Some people watch too many GGW dvds and don't realize the rich tradition that Mardi Gras has. I am lucky to have the friends that I do down there and have been to some of the most lavish banquets (Balls) and seen some of the best parades down there. If you didnt look at the video two posts up, you really should at it... Here is a great parade video that does not contain drunken frat boys... http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/video/index.ssf?Endymion

Metarie has some great parades....Remember, this is not Bourbon St. Mardi Gras is all over the state and the local parades pay well and are more of a family environment. Just like a parade in any town and any state. Just bigger and with throws off of floats. I rode for 3 years and never saw anything bad in Metarie (you might think that's bad, but there is a time and PLACE for everything at Mardi Gras) If your group wants to come and march, you can contact me here. Here is a list of parades in the NOLA area for the Mardi Gras season. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6• Phunny Phorty Phellows - Streetcar route, 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 8• Krewe of Claude - Slidell, 1:00 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 8• Little Rascals - Metairie, 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 15• Slidellians - Slidell, 1:00 p.m. • Krewe of Antony and Cleopatra - Slidell, 1:00 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21• Bilge - Slidell, noon • Krewe of Driftwood - Kenner, 1:00 p.m. • Krewe du Vieux - French Quarter, 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 22• Perseus - Slidell, 1:00 p.m. • Pearl River Lions Club Parade - Pearl River, 1:15 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17• Cleopatra - West Bank, 6:30 p.m. • Oshun - Uptown, 6:00 p.m. • Pygmalion - Uptown, 7:30 p.m. • Atlas - Metairie, 6:30 p.m. • Excalibur - Metairie, 7:00 p.m. • Eve - Mandeville, 7:00 p.m. • Gladiator - St. Bernard, 7:00 p.m. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18• Krewe of Push Mow - Abita Springs, 11:00 a.m. • Aladdin - Westbank, noon • Pontchartrain - Uptown, noon • Shangri-La - Uptown, 1:00 p.m. • Caesar - Metairie, 6:00 p.m. • Olympia - Covington, 6:00 p.m. • Sparta - Uptown, 6:00 p.m. • Arabi - St. Bernard, 6:30 p.m. • Pegasus - Uptown, 6:45 p.m. • Mona Lisa and Moon Pie Parade - Slidell, 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19• Alla - West Bank, noon • Carrollton - Uptown, noon • Dionysus - Slidell, 1:00 p.m. • King Arthur & Merlin - Uptown, 1:15 p.m. • Barkus - French Quarter, 2:00 p.m. • Bards of Bohemia - Uptown, 2:30 p.m. • Rhea - Metairie, 2:30 p.m. • Mercury - Metairie, 4:00 p.m. • Centurions - Metairie, 5:30 p.m. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21• Ancient Druids - Uptown, 6:30 p.m. • Krewe of Morpheus - Uptown, 6:45 p.m. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22• Saturn - Uptown, 6:00 p.m. • Muses - Uptown, 6:45 p.m. • Thor - Metairie, 7:00 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23• Babylon - Uptown, 5:45 p.m. • Chaos - Uptown, 6:30 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24• Hermes - Uptown, 6:00 p.m. • Krewe d'Etat - Uptown, 6:30 p.m. • Selene - Slidell, 6:30 p.m. • Aquila - Metairie, 7:00 p.m. • Knights of Jason - Metairie, 7:30 p.m. • Aphrodite - Chalmette, 7:00 p.m. • Orpheus - Mandeville, 7:00 p.m. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25• Bush - Bush, 9:00 a.m. • NOMTOC - West Bank, 11:30 a.m. • Iris - Uptown, 11:00 a.m. • Krewe of Salt Bayou - Slidell, noon • Vulcan - River Ridge, noon • Tucks - Uptown, 12:30 p.m. • Endymion - Mid-City, 4:30 p.m. • Isis - Metairie, 6:00 p.m. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26• Tchefuncte - Madisonville, 10:00 a.m. • Okeanos - Uptown, 11:00 a.m. • Thoth - Uptown, 11:30 a.m. • Adonis - West Bank, noon • Grand Isle Independent Mardi Gras Parade - Grand Isle, 1:00 p.m. • Mid-City - Uptown, 2:00 p.m. • Bacchus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m. • Corps de Napoleon - Metairie, 5:30 p.m. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27• Proteus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m. • Orpheus - Uptown, 5:45 p.m. • Zeus - Metairie, 6:30 p.m. MARDI GRAS, FEBRUARY 28• Zulu - Uptown, 8:30 a.m. • Rex - Uptown, 10:00 a.m. • Argus - Metairie, 10:00 a.m. • Mystic Krewe of Covington - Covington, 10:00 a.m. • Lions - Covington, 10:00 a.m. • Elks - Jeff. - Metairie, 11:00 a.m. • Grela - West Bank, 11:00 a.m. • Jefferson - Metairie, 11:00 a.m. • Elks- Orl. - Uptown, 11:30 a.m. • Crescent City - Uptown, after Elks • Krewe of Choctaw - Grenta, noon • Skunks - Lacombe, 1:00 p.m. • Chahta-Ima - Lacombe, 1:30 p.m.

I was looking at pictures from Mardi Gras from last year and came across this.... THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE LOVE MARCHING MUSIC! How it can change lives. http://www.nola.com/photos/t-p/index.ssf?rabouin

Web link to family Fun at Mardi Gras http://www.nola.com/mardigras/parades/inde.../excaliber.html Carnival Basics These Carnival basics are offered to first-timers, or as a brush-up for repeat revelers. Mardi Gras always falls on the Tuesday that is 46 days before Easter. It is always the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of Lent. Carnival refers to the season of revelry before Mardi Gras. It begins officially on Jan. 6, which is known as Twelfth Night or Kings' Day, so named because it falls 12 days after Christmas on the day the Wise Men are said to have reached Bethlehem. Carnival celebrations fall into two categories: public and private. The private celebrations are balls, held by clubs called krewes. Some krewes let anyone join, while others are exclusive and made up mostly of FONOF (fine old New Orleans families). The first Carnival ball of the season is always the Twelfth Night Ball, held on Jan. 6. The public celebrations take the form of parades, sponsored by the same krewes that hold the balls for members only. Not every krewe has a parade, although every krewe will throw a party for its members. A very few krewes allow the public to buy tickets to their balls - Endymion and Orpheus, for example. About 70 groups in a four-parish area around New Orleans hold parades. Most krewes are named for figures in Greek mythology. The parade season officially begins on the second Friday before Mardi Gras, although the parade calendar is expanding. At the beginning of the season, parades are held on weekends only, then become more frequent until the week prior to Mardi Gras, when there's at least a parade a day. There are nine parades on Mardi Gras, most notably Rex. Rex (don't say "king of"; it's redundant) - always a prominent New Orleans businessman - is considered the king of Mardi Gras. (You should, therefore, sneer when you hear some Hollywood matinee idol announce to Jay Leno that he will be "king of the Mardi Gras." He won't.) Every parade has a theme, usually borrowed from mythology, history or Hollywood. Most parades have mock royalty, kings and queens and dukes and duchesses, either drawn from the ranks of the krewe's members or celebrities (hence the Jay Leno clown above). All parade riders throw trinkets - beads, doubloons, small toys, candy - from the floats to the crowds. These are called "throws." Parades consist of anywhere from 10 to 40 floats carrying krewe members, marching bands, dance groups, costumed characters and the like. Some parades are small and suburban, others downtown and lavish. The colors of Carnival are purple, green and gold, chosen in 1872 by that year's Rex. The 1892 Rex parade gave the official colors meaning: purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power.

Actually, Mardi Gras outside of Bourbon Street is something completely different. It is a family event with great parades, reviewing stands, where the things you see on TV do not exist. Trust me, I rode with a Mardi Gras Krewe for a few years. Web link to family Fun at Mardi Gras http://www.nola.com/mardigras/parades/inde.../excaliber.html Carnival Basics These Carnival basics are offered to first-timers, or as a brush-up for repeat revelers. Mardi Gras always falls on the Tuesday that is 46 days before Easter. It is always the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of Lent. Carnival refers to the season of revelry before Mardi Gras. It begins officially on Jan. 6, which is known as Twelfth Night or Kings' Day, so named because it falls 12 days after Christmas on the day the Wise Men are said to have reached Bethlehem. Carnival celebrations fall into two categories: public and private. The private celebrations are balls, held by clubs called krewes. Some krewes let anyone join, while others are exclusive and made up mostly of FONOF (fine old New Orleans families). The first Carnival ball of the season is always the Twelfth Night Ball, held on Jan. 6. The public celebrations take the form of parades, sponsored by the same krewes that hold the balls for members only. Not every krewe has a parade, although every krewe will throw a party for its members. A very few krewes allow the public to buy tickets to their balls - Endymion and Orpheus, for example. About 70 groups in a four-parish area around New Orleans hold parades. Most krewes are named for figures in Greek mythology. The parade season officially begins on the second Friday before Mardi Gras, although the parade calendar is expanding. At the beginning of the season, parades are held on weekends only, then become more frequent until the week prior to Mardi Gras, when there's at least a parade a day. There are nine parades on Mardi Gras, most notably Rex. Rex (don't say "king of"; it's redundant) - always a prominent New Orleans businessman - is considered the king of Mardi Gras. (You should, therefore, sneer when you hear some Hollywood matinee idol announce to Jay Leno that he will be "king of the Mardi Gras." He won't.) Every parade has a theme, usually borrowed from mythology, history or Hollywood. Most parades have mock royalty, kings and queens and dukes and duchesses, either drawn from the ranks of the krewe's members or celebrities (hence the Jay Leno clown above). All parade riders throw trinkets - beads, doubloons, small toys, candy - from the floats to the crowds. These are called "throws." Parades consist of anywhere from 10 to 40 floats carrying krewe members, marching bands, dance groups, costumed characters and the like. Some parades are small and suburban, others downtown and lavish. The colors of Carnival are purple, green and gold, chosen in 1872 by that year's Rex. The 1892 Rex parade gave the official colors meaning: purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power.

I have a contact that books parades in the New Orleans, Kenner, Metarie area of LA for Mardi Gras Parades. They are looking for groups of at least 40 people. The first parade they are asking me about is on Jan 25th. These are paying gigs for your corps. Please contact me via PM if you are interested in more information.

I have a contact that books parades in the New Orleans, Kenner, Metarie area of LA for Mardi Gras Parades. They are looking for groups of at least 40 people. These are paying gigs for your corps. Please contact me via PM if you are interested in more information.

Friends of Mae Zingali, Mae passed away today (Sunday) in Las Vegas after a brief hospitalization, She was 90. Final plans will be sent as soon as Frank Dimino, her nephew, is able to work out the logistics. Please pass this on to others. _________________________________________________________________ For those who did not know her, not only was she George Zingali's mother, but a wonderful seamstress that created costumes and flags for so many young people to perform with. Those famed 27th Lancer flags... The bolts of material seemed to be in her house for years.... We have lost another wonderful soul from this activity. As I helped George and Marc and learned to chart drill (back when you had to draw football fields on empty graph paper and long before Pyware), Mae would make sure that we were all taken care of... make us laugh... keep us working... God Bless her... She is Home.

Sorry for the small image - "Motivation gets your started. Passion keeps you going"

http://www.regiment.org/kingsale.cfm We have horns for sale right now.

We quickly sold out of our first quantity on the road. I am waiting on another shipment this week and will put them on the web when we get them.

Give it a name that both drum corps people would understand and non drum corps people would want to come and check out. Ready... Set... Go! (disclaimer - This is 100% out of curiosity)

Why does Leon May not get the accolades of other designers?

1 Blue Devils GE 34.800 3 Visual 26.550 2 Music 26.325 1 87.675 2 The Cadets GE 35.400 1 Visual 26.050 3 Music 26.125 2 87.575 3 The Cavaliers GE 35.100 2 Visual 26.800 1 Music 25.650 5 87.550 4 Phantom Regiment GE 34.500 4 Visual 25.900 4 Music 25.925 3 86.325 5 Bluecoats GE 33.900 6 Visual 25.100 7 Music 25.750 4 84.750 6 Santa Clara Vanguard GE 34.100 5 Visual 25.650 5 Music 24.950 6 84.700 7 Carolina Crown GE 33.100 7 Visual 25.300 6 Music 24.950 6 83.350 8 Blue Knights GE 31.600 8 Visual 23.950 8 Music 23.425 8 78.975

####.... How did Defenders get past Royal Brigade? (marched there) and "We bet the green slime" a long time ago