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Does anyone know the housing site for the Crossmen for the 3 days this weekend (June 25-27) they are in Washington DC for the Arlington, VA show on Saturday? Thanks.

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According to their tour calendar they'll be staying at Bowie High School in Bowie, MD. I'll probably be there to check out rehearsal.

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This sure sounds awesome on the midi...

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More MIDI music HERE.

This week's selection: First Circle

Saw the show live the other day for the first time and I must say you did a great job of arranging to pay homage to Crossmen corps of past while still adding a little "Guidry" to it. Thank you and nice job. Best of luck to the corps this year!

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I am a Texas band director and I can tell you that when the X-men first started auditioning young people, they cut quite a few of their promising young recruits that were right around 17 years of age. Perhaps it's because they thought they'd always have a steady flow of kinsmen from the Northeast as well as Texas, I don't know, but by doing that it turned students off to how they began to feel feel that people were being treated poorly in the audition camps. Now, I know that has gotten better and I've got some students marching there that tell me so, but, there is still a hesitance for the Texas folks to get gung ho over going there. Right or wrong first impressions mean a lot to parents and kids! As far as corps recruitment--- Fill in the blank here...... I know Phantom, Bluecoats, BD, SCV, Cavies, Madison, Blue Knights, Glassmen etc.... all get numerous kids from here and most of those corps have at least one Texas audition camp. I don't think it's a stretch to say when the X-men get really good the recruitment will improve, but I also thnk they've got to find a way to reach out to the students in the various Texas communities as well and recruit even harder imho. But anyway, I wish the X-men the best of luck and hope they get their holes plugged and also have a very, very successful 2010 season!!

Wes P

Perhaps those first few camps had sooooo many 16/17 year olds . you can only march 150.

Crossmen always have great turnouts . In the 300-400 range.

Its not a turn off, but a incentive to get better. or should be.

A lot of corps have holes this summer as the economic climate has his DCI.

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