The N.Y. Skyliners Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps is proud to host one of the four Regional I&E shows as part of the 2012 Bugler’s Hall of Fame 5th North American Championships. This will include events for Brass and Percussion, Individual and Ensemble, Mixed Ensemble, and Mini-corps.
Shenandoah Sound is pleased to announce Carrie Sullivan is the recipient of the 2011 Spirit of the Sound Scholarship. An outstanding contra player, Carrie has been a member of Sound since 2009 and was a featured soloist in the 2011 show during “Slap That Bass” and in the 2010 show during “Nothing Like a Dame.” […]
Shenandoah Sound is proud to announce its 2012 field show: Promising Skies, based on the Robert W. Smith composition of the same name. Promising Skies takes the listener on a musical journey through New Orleans, Louisiana before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The show features New Orleans-inspired jazz and a lush ballad depicting […]
World Drum Corps Hall of Fame member Dick Pronti passed away in the early morning on December 24, after being in intensive care at Thompson Health centre in Canandaigua since the beginning of the month with a severe viral infection. A retired schoolteacher, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005. For more than […]
The Govenaires all-age drum and bugle corps will host a weekend open house starting Jan. 14 at St. Peter (Minn.) High School. Anyone with experience in marching band, drum corps, dance or any kind of musical activity is invited to come jam with the 2011 Drum Corps Associates (DCA) Class A Champions.
After an extensive review of the November and December camps, the Cadets2 team has given high marks to the progress made so far, with the largest shortfall being the number of low brass, specifically baritones and tubas, who have been in attendance, as well the need for two or three quality front ensemble percussionists. Read […]
As the trumpets and tubas, snares and marimbas were being loaded into the Cadets equipment trailer, the positive vibe was still running through each of the members who were part of the Cadets2 camp this weekend at South Mountain Middle School in Allentown. Read the rest of the article here.
With the repetition of phrase after phrase after phrase from the trumpet and low brass sectional rooms wafting through South Mountain Middle School, Minesh Shah, brass caption leader for the upstart Cadets2, was finishing up a conversation at the end of the hall regarding the selection process of the corps’ first drum majors. Read the […]
“A wonderful positive energy is in the air,” said Eric Kitchenman about the first day of Cadets2 camp on Saturday, December 17, as the initial class of members and the staff took to their work during the corps’ second camp ever held at South Mounatin Middle School in Allentown, Penn. Read the rest of the […]
The 2012 So Cal Dream Drum and Bugle Corps design team proudly announces this season’s show with “To Boldly Go” -a celebration of their ten year anniversary. “ To Boldly Go” features the exciting music of the science fiction movie and television icon “Star Trek”. In true So Cal Dream fashion this production will bring […]
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