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Do y'all remember the "Memphis Blues Brass Band"? (MB3)  Drum corps is returning to Memphis, Tennessee!  I had several college classmates march in the 80s & a couple of students several years ago. (2000s maybe?)  Check out their .org & their FB page as they start up in SoundSport:

Home page: 

https://www.memphisbluesdc.org

Staff:

https://www.memphisbluesdc.org/staff

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090514550700

As of their March 8th post, they've received over 200 interest forms.  

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2 hours ago, keystone3ply said:

Do y'all remember the "Memphis Blues Brass Band"? (MB3)  Drum corps is returning to Memphis, Tennessee!  I had several college classmates march in the 80s & a couple of students several years ago. (2000s maybe?)  Check out their .org & their FB page as they start up in SoundSport:

Home page: 

https://www.memphisbluesdc.org

Staff:

https://www.memphisbluesdc.org/staff

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090514550700

As of their March 8th post, they've received over 200 interest forms.  

Yes.  Jim taught them their first year as a favor to George Lindstrom. 

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57 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

Yes.  Jim taught them their first year as a favor to George Lindstrom. 

I just remembered when our students marched in the 2000s, they were titled "Memphis Sound".  Don't like getting old. 😂

Anyway, I remember they sponsored at least one home show in the SE Memphis area.  I hope they do well!  

Thanks for DCX; it's a great source!

http://www.dcxmuseum.org/index.cfm?view=corpslist&Corpsid=1410

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Good to see a new start up, or re-start as it were. Best wishes to them.

I see Michael Gaines on staff there. That won't hurt anything, 

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14 minutes ago, TOC said:

Well, it does seem that he has the time.

I was going to mention that, but given the current climate around here.....seemed a bit touchy. 

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It’s good to see them back! I remember back in 1980(?) when they came off the line with Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite. I thought they had a really good horn line and expected great things from them in the future. Who knew the future would be so long in coming.

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9 hours ago, OldSnareDrummer said:

Good to see a new start up, or re-start as it were. Best wishes to them.

I see Michael Gaines on staff there. That won't hurt anything, 

they must have $$

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I remember seeing Memphis Blues in Boston. It was a new corps and while I can’t say I recall the specifics of their  shows, I do remember enjoying them and seeing great potential. Then they were gone, which was sadly the case with so many corps of that era, but times were tough economically. You could still work in the summer to pay fall college tuition so recruiting was a challenge. I think quite a few former Memphis Blues Brass Band members marched with 27th. Same was true with Avant Garde when they disbanded.

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