LIVE from the Pressbox for the Alumni Spectacular

[JohnD]

Good Morning from sunny Rochester and PAETEC Park. We're getting things ready to bring you live coverage from the Alumni Spectacular, which starts in just a few minutes. The crowd is in good spirits - maybe because of the beautiful weather we're enjoying, its Sunday morning, and we're about to be treated to some great drum corps.

Stay 'tuned' and we'll do our best to bring you a picture of what's happening here.

DCP is 'in the house'

Enjoy!

-john

[kevingamin]

I would just like to point out there are THREE Hawaiian shirts in the pressbox, but Fran Haring has yet to arrive.

[kevingamin]

National anthems of Canada and the United States are finished. Toronto Optimists are coming onto the field to start the show.

[Jeff DeMello]

And on the REAL starting line (for those of you who aren't that old ... it's the far left side of the field ... the Toronto Optimists.

[Jeff DeMello]

WOW ... company front wakes up the crowd right off the bat!

[kevingamin]

I did not know that the Optimists are the only corps to win the U.S. Open.

[kevingamin]

Unfortunately, corpsreps.com doesn't have the Optimists show rep, but I like what I'm hearing.

[kevingamin]

Here is the link to the Optimists Alumni web page: http://www.optimists-alumni.org/

[Jeff DeMello]

Optimists book for this year:

• Paint Your Wagon
  
• Tabu (new arrangement)
  
• Drum Solo
  
• Big Band Concert
  
• Battle Cry of Freedom / Ontario
  
• More and More
  

[kevingamin]

Soprano trio in front of the corps now. They've just kicked up the tempo for the big finish to their second piece.