The Austin Stars, Central Texas’s only competing all-age drum and bugle corps, will be performing their 2008 program "Stars In The Spotlight: On Stage, Screen & Field" for a final time in Austin this weekend! The corps will be celebrating their successful season on Sunday, August 10th, at 7:30 PM at Bridge Point Elementary School […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen swept to first place in the Pageant of Drums in Waterloo, New York on Saturday, August 2, as their scores in execution captions moved up sharply to match their earlier high general effect scores and audience appeal. Winning the contest with a score of 88.463, Statesmen were tops in every caption except […]
The Brigadier’s Pageant of Drums and the first ever NE Class A Regional Championship. Class A awards: Brass – Fusion, Percussion – Grenadiers, Visual – Fusion, GE – Fusion, Color Guard – Fusion In Open Class, Brigadiers took Best Color Guard while Brass, Percussion, Visual, GE went to Rochester’s Empire Statesmen A capacity crowd watched […]
The Kilties, along with our fellow Midwest all-age corps, helped carve out a little piece of drum corps history this past weekend here in the land of cheese. The first ever DCA sanctioned drum corps competitions in the great state of Wisconsin featured healthy crowds, healthy doses of entertainment, and great camaraderie at Saturday’s big […]
There are still plenty of great seats available for the August 16th, 7:30PM Parade of Champions at the newly renovated Scranton Memorial Stadium. This great facility will see the American Legion team with DCA to provide one of the great shows of the summer. Order tickets now by clicking on tickets on the home page. […]
The music of Rochester’s Empire Statesmen’s 25th anniversary season, a mix of Big Band tunes, Broadway hits and a patriotic climax, was tops in the effect caption at Mission Drums in Lawrence, Massachusetts on July 26, but some more work is still needed in execution captions to help them overtake this season’s front-running corps. Despite […]
SoCal Dream Bowl-A-Thon consists of bowlers (and their families) from all of our organization. This event will benefit our members who need to raise money for their 2008 summer tour fee by getting pledges and bowling for a 2-hour period. The dollars raised will benefit our members. 100% of each dollar raise by a member […]
With the hot midday sun beating down on them outside of Edwards Middle School, the members of the Carolina Gold Drum and Bugle Corps feign the motions of drums and horn playing, and keep in step. Some members look exhausted, but still, they laugh and smile as they move in formation. "We have anyone from […]
In the early 1960s, Gary Dershem, of Lewisburg, had his first encounter with drum and bugles corps at the Cavalcade of Champions contest. He was selling Cokes in the stands at a time when the competition was sponsored by the Keystoners Drum and Bugle Corps of Milton. On Saturday night, Dershem, now 55, will get […]
Four parades, a field show, a concert, and two rehearsals. WHEW! That’s one busy weekend! The Kilties helped local Wisconsinites celebrate the anniversary or our great nation’s independence and we were rewarded with wonderful appreciative ovations wherever we appeared. Our busy 4th of July weekend began at 7AM Friday the 4th at the Wal-Mart parking […]
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