CSGreen Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Posted this on my facebook and got some interesting responses... In the next decade, how long will the list be? Can we reverse it? How can more corps make it to the competition field and not just survive... but THRIVE... Anyone have an update on any of these corps... sure hope that a few of them can rise from the ashes and entertain us again... These are all corps that competed in the last decade... 55 corps... can you imagine what the season would look like if all 55 were still competing?Allegiance Elite - Went All-Age. no word if they are planning to compete Americanos - Alumni Association has become very active lately Bandettes Cadets of New York City (aka Vision Elite) Capital Regiment Capital Sound/Madison Junior Scouts/Capitalaires Chevaliers Cincinnati Glory (and Golden Lancers) Citations - Return for 2012? Court of Honor Decorah Kilties Delta Brigade Dimensions Dutch Boy/North Star - Sounds like they may come back out under the North Star Name East Coast Jazz - Rumor is they are reforming but DCI or DCA? Edmonton Strutters Eklipse Emerald Knights Esperanza Fever Fusion (aka Allegience Elite and Edmonton Strutters) - Allegience Elite has gone All-Age, no word if they are competing H.Y.P.E. (aka Conqueror II) Incognito - Hopefully will come back after being inactive in 2010 Jester Joliet Kingsmen Kips Bay Crusaders/Kips Bay Knight Club Knight Storm/Royal Columbians Lake Erie Regiment Legend of Texas Lehigh Valley Knights Les Senateurs Les Sentinelles Marion Glory Cadets (Marion Cadets) - Sold off equipment, rumor about Cincinnati Glory trying to reform McCullough Royal Knights Memphis Sound - sold off equipment, but still rumors they may reform Mystikal Pers-Clairs Phoenix Phoenix Kidets Pride of the Lions Quebec Alliance (Les Senateurs and Les Sentinelles) Quest Releve Musicale San Diego Alliance Scenic City Silver Knights Spectrum - Very successful Winterguard program now St. John's Tampa Bay Thunder - Competing in 2011 as a DCA group Targets - merged with Excelsior Trinity Twilight Knights Vision Elite West Coast Sound Yamato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostrauser Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Esperanza is gone for good, I know that much. The corps ended under extremely poor circumstances (both financially and relationship-wise between corps leaders and instructional staff) and there remain a lot of angry ex-Esperanza instructors teaching in SoCal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friceox Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Man, I still remember going to Div 2/3 regionals in 2000 & 2001 and there being just TONS of corps there. We went to a regional in 2000 with so many competing groups, we had to perform around 7am! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuebecSOP Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 La Releve Musicale is the feeder corps for Les Stentors from Sherbrooke. I think they still alive. I am the program coordonator for a group from the subburb of Montréal for 3 years now. The name of the group is Les Ambassadeurs de la Montérégie. We are not planning to tour this year, but we will do a lot of show and parade in the province of Québec and in the northeast of the USA. This year, we are planing to go out with 12 brass, 6 drums, 6 pit players and 12 colorguard. Our show this year is a tribute to Carlos Santana. We are a young organisation and we want to put everything in place before touring with DCI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGreen Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 That's great news QuebecSOP Keep doing what you are doing, and when you're ready, we're looking forward to seeing ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadacorps Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) We're looking forward to sharing some good news from Edmonton with the Drum Corps community very soon! Edited February 18, 2011 by Canadacorps 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfgang1985 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 San Diego Alliance continued as a WGI line until this year when they folded. Esperanza cannot return because all of their equipment is long gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Matczak Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Lake Erie Regiment - currently retooling as Lake Effect - All Age 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Esperanza is gone for good, I know that much. That's too bad. First and only time I saw them.... at Jersey Surf's show in 2003... Esperanza absolutely floored me. Really solid corps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheMood Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I do not know why the OC Div. has gone out of their way to turn their collective backs on the legacy fans. For that matter the WC Corps do not want us. And the OC Div.has not figured out their history is a lot longer then 10 years.I lost all respect for the OC leaders when the refused to say or do anything to celebrate the 35th year of the first DCI OC/Class A DCI finals. At least the WC made an honest attempt to do something on their 35th ann of their first Finals show. fix this disrespect to the OC legacy fans, maybe just maybe we may want to help support this great Div. Do nothing and u will get nothing in return. Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.