Three of the best-known equipment suppliers in the drum and bugle corps community, Yamaha, Vic Firth Inc. and Zildjian, are sponsoring Scout House Alumni Band’s ‘Time to Step Out’ guard, percussion and brass clinics. Vic Firth Inc. co-operates with educators around the world to support percussion education. Yamaha products include a wide range of marching […]
Sandee Conlin and her four daughters are champions of the world – at least in Drum Corps Associates standards. Drum Corps Associates is the governing body for senior or all-age drum and bugle corps in North America. DCA was formed in 1965 as the first heir to the modern drum corps activity, breaking from the […]
Coming off another successful competitive season in their 57 year history, the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Hurricanes are pleased to name Bernie Malesky as the President and Doug Oravez as Corps Director for the upcoming 2012 season. Bernie was the Corps Director of the Hurricanes for 8 years from 2002 to 2010. He […]
Forest Lake music program alumni and staff helped make history when Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corp (MBI) of St. Paul were proclaimed Class A Champions at the all-age 2011 Drum Corps Associates (DCA) World Championships. The event was held Sept. 4 in Rochester, N.Y., and marked the first world championship win in the 65-year […]
World Drum Corps Hall of Fame member Marty Hurley, age 65, passed away in New Orleans early this week after suffering complications from a stroke several weeks earlier. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004 and was also named a member of the Louisiana Music Educators Association in 2010. He had been […]
Cadets2, the new weekend-only corps to be offered by the Cadets and Youth Education in the Arts has announced that the age range for those to be considered for membership will be 16–25 years of age, with special consideration for those over 22 who have marched with The Cadets DCI corps. According to George Hopkins, […]
I was beginning to think the Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps simply had forgotten how to lose. Since a third-place finish in 2004, the Buccaneers had won every competition they entered – 64 straight – until coming in second on Sept. 3. I’m not a big drum and bugle corps guy, except when I’m […]
Preston Scout House Alumni Band, including four members who in their earlier years served in the Canadian Armed Forces, will take part in a ceremony honouring military veterans beginning at noon on Saturday, September 10. The event takes place one day before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers […]
Drumroll, please. For the first time in their history, the Minnesota Brass Drum and Bugle Corps took home the top prize this weekend at an annual drum corps competition in Rochester, N.Y. It was a major win for the corps, which has been participating in the Drum Corps Associates World Championships for about 30 years […]
From across the country drum corps large and small came to Rochester this weekend to compete in the Drum Corps Associates World Championships. This was the sixth consecutive year for Rochester to host the competition. And with the closing of award ceremonies Sunday, so also closed a record-setting run for the city. Read the rest […]
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