On Saturday, August 22nd the Atlanta CorpsVets All-Age Drum and Bugle Corps will play host to four of DCA’s finest Drum and Bugle Corps with the 7th annual Drum Corps Rocks the South! competition at Rockmart High School in Rockmart, Georgia. The Family & Friends BBQ starts at 5:30pm and the show gets underway at […]
Music City Legend Drum & Bugle Corps is pleased to announce the selection of Mary Murphy of Lebanon, Tennessee, as the corps’ new Assistant Drum Major. Mrs. Murphy is the owner of Flying Hippo Ranch®, a graphic design firm specializing in design, manufacturing, packaging, and promotion. Additional services include identity consultation, custom logos, T-shirts, posters, […]
DCI Valdosta and Orlando are now fond memories of first show weekends. DCI Orlando was especially memorable due to the ever changing weather. Before the corps took the first step in Orlando, Drum Major John Johnson received a stern warning from DCI Contest Coordinator Tony DiCarlo regarding the performance. Johnson was told point blank that […]
It was no vacation for Rochester’s Empire Statesmen at Buglers Holiday in Jamestown, New York: hard work paid off again with top score in every caption, for a first place total of 82.850. The Statesmen opened their Drum Corps Associates (DCA) season on July 4 with high score in every caption to win the Vince […]
Music City Legend, the Mid-south’s only competitive, all-age drum and bugle corps, will host Music City Metal III, The Southern Drum Corps Showdown, its annual Drum Corps Associates (DCA) “all-age” drum corps contest this Saturday, August 1st, starting at 7:00 PM, at Antioch High School, 1900 Hobson Pike, in Antioch, Tennessee. The contest will feature […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen will take to the football field on July 30, not to compete as usual in a drum and bugle corps contest, but to help the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL) kick off the start of their 50th season. The anniversary celebration will take place on the field at Growney […]
A Sutherlin woman is joining the ranks of such legendary horn blowers as Louis Armstrong and Maynard Ferguson after her recent induction into the Buglers Hall of Fame. “I don’t think I rate as high as they do,” said Donna-Mae Smith, now 89. The corners of her lipsticked mouth curled up and her eyes shone […]
On 7/19/2009, SoCal Dream performed their last judged show in Dublin, Ca. The staff is very proud of what the corps accomplished this season. Their final score for the season was a 71.138. This score currently represents the highest score of any DCA Class “A” corps in the country. SoCal Dream is not making the […]
Following their one-week layoff, Rochester’s Empire Statesmen jumped up to 80.188 on the score sheets at the Mission Drums contest in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to finish third behind Connecticut Hurricanes and Hawthorne Caballeros. Hurricanes won the contest with a score of 82.663 with Caballeros close behind at 82.313. Kingston Grenadiers were fourth, with 67.013, followed by […]
Due to unexpected circumstances, Austin Stars will be inactive as a competitive drum corps for the remainder of the 2009 drum corps season. We will not be sending any ensembles to Rochester, as was originally planned. However, we will be putting together a brass and percussion ensemble this winter to perform locally and will be […]
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