The Kilties didn’t win the 2008 DCA Championship. We didn’t even make finals, but you already knew that, and we’re OK with that. What was accomplished this season has very little to do with judges and numbers and almost everything to do with growth and transformation, both as individuals and as an organization. That’s a […]
From DCA President, Gil Silva, in the 2008 DCA Yearbook: “As we move toward our 45th championship in 2009, I would like to take this opportunity to debut our new logo. Our familiar world globe logo has served us well for over 44 years and as we complete the first decade of the 21st century, […]
The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps announced today that the corps’ design and instructional nucleus will return to lead the corps for the 2009 season. Returning as Staff Coordinator will be Carl Ruocco. Rich Hammond will reprise his roles as Program Coordinator and Percussion Arranger and Caption Head. Jay Bocook’s brass arrangements will be […]
One of Minnesota’s best ambassadors just broke one of their activities true "glass ceilings." The Minnesota Brass Drum Corps made the top two in the annual World Championships. "So what?," you say? This is the marching musical equivalent of the Gophers being voted most popular football team in the NCAA! First of all, non-drum corps […]
A huge thank you must go out to so many people for making the 2008 DCA World Championship a success. To Local Show Chairman, Allen Buell and his staff, you guys make this look so easy and we all know it is so hard. To Matt Ford and Allen Dungy from the Rochester Rhinos, it’s […]
Emotions were running high on and off the field at PAETEC Park on Sunday as the top 10 drum corps from across the country and Canada competed for the world championship title. The showdown was the culmination of the three-day annual Drum Corps Associates World Championship, which drew 3,500 musicians and more than 10,000 spectators. […]
Rochester’s own Empire Statesmen Drum Corps hopes to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a championship win tonight. The corps, founded in 1983, has about 130 members. It was seeded second in a field of 24 going into this year’s Drum Corps Associates World Championships, hosted this weekend at PAETEC Park. Saturday night, the Statesmen took […]
The Emerald GrenaDears have been reunited since 2002 as an All Female Senior Alumni drum and bugle corps, after a twenty five year absence of being a junior all girl drum and bugle corps, winning various titles through out their rein. The corps has grown and evolved to consist of not only former "Girls in […]
For music fans, the Drum Corps Associates World Championships this weekend at PAETEC Park will bring in some of the best drum and bugle corps performing anywhere. For the Rochester-area economy, the event will be a boon in the form of thousands of musicians and families staying in local hotels, shopping at stores and eating […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are heading into the Drum Corps Associates championship tournament weekend on a high note, winning Fanfare 2008 in West Haven, Connecticut, on August 23 with a score 94.213, including high caption scores in music effect, field and ensemble brass, music composite, ensemble percussion and field visual. Hawthorne Caballeros were second with a […]
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