Galen Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 This week's update is up, highlighting the local stadium in Chambersburg PA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 A new entry is up, focusing on a long-missed site for both the junior and senior circuit, Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey PA. http://marchingarenas.blogspot.com/2013/02/hershey-pa.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 This week's update is a double-feature that looks at the home-show venues for the reigning DCA champions, the Reading Buccaneers. http://marchingarenas.blogspot.com/2013/02/reading-pa.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buick Dad Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I would be interested in being able to look up which stadiums have "good" sight lines from their handicapped seating areas. Big pro stadiums do. Smaller stadiums built on flat ground generally do not. Many stick the HC seating near ground level at the corner of the stands. Some at least get you near Mid field. Allentown is great in that the HC seating is at the top of the lower stands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmyown Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) The absolute greatest, most awesome, spectacular, spine-tingling best sound I've heard in any stadium anywhere. Even when the corps on the field is playing softly, one is enveloped by a glorious sonic blanket of sonorous brass. It doesn't even matter than one can see drums warming up behind the stadium...once the corps inside the stadium is playing, it's like having headphones on. Everyone within a few hours drive deserves to hear drum corps in this venue. Check out this vid of 2012 BAC brass rehearsal in the Berry Center (they had rehearsal day there for TOC show). The acoustics are ridiculous...great resonance and you can hear every voice of the horn line. Edited February 13, 2013 by onmyown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted February 17, 2013 Author Share Posted February 17, 2013 I would be interested in being able to look up which stadiums have "good" sight lines from their handicapped seating areas. Big pro stadiums do. Smaller stadiums built on flat ground generally do not. Many stick the HC seating near ground level at the corner of the stands. Some at least get you near Mid field. Allentown is great in that the HC seating is at the top of the lower stands. I would say that your average high school stadiums, which tend to put disabled seating in the front row, generally don't have very good sight lines, although I have seen some that are exceptions (one of which I will be featuring in a couple of weeks on the blog). Typically, you'd need a stadium with larger, terrace-style stands that have entrances (or "voms") on multiple levels of the bleachers. In those cases, you might see some disabled seating located on the bottom rows of those sections. This week's update is up, as I move on from Pennsylvania into the Garden State with a look at TCNJ's Lion Stadium in Ewing, NJ. http://marchingarenas.blogspot.com/2013/02/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 This week's update is a double update, focusing on two stadiums in Toms River NJ, including the host of the DCA event that's taken place there for the last few seasons. http://marchingarenas.blogspot.com/2013/02/toms-river-nj.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Keeping with the recent theme of current show venues, this week's post is focusing on Liberty HS in Jackson NJ, a very nice HS stadium that's becoming a mainstay on the DCI circuit. http://marchingarenas.blogspot.com/2013/03/jackson-nj.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoSurfBass Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Yep, you got Jackson spot on! Now if it would only stop raining there every year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickhaltsforlife Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Hah seriously. Scary storm last year. But the show still went on! Grass field too! Great drainage I guess because it POURED. Pretty packed house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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