It’s crowded at the top of the track in early-season Drum Corps Associates (DCA) contests. Rochester’s Empire Statesmen moved up more than three points on the scoresheets at the Drum Corps Grand Prix compared to a week earlier, but not enough to catch the front running Reading Buccaneers, Hawthorne Caballeros and Connecticut Hurricanes. Statesmen, competing […]
Empire Statesmen opened their contest season July 5 in Rochester, placing a close second to Hawthorne in a penalty-filled 5th annual Vince Bruni Preview of Champions. Hawthorne scored 76.425, including a 0.6 point penalty. Statesmen scored 76.063, including a 0.9 penalty. Syracuse Brigadiers, scoring 70.363, were hit with a whopping 2.4 in penalties. Rochester Crusaders […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen drum and bugle corps, celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer, competed in its first local competition Saturday at the fifth annual Vince Bruni Preview of Champions at St. John Fisher College. Other corps that competed were Hawthorne Caballeros of New Jersey; Syracuse Brigadiers; Rochester Crusaders and Dansville White Sabers. The Empire Cadets […]
The Austin Stars Performing Arts Association, parent organization of the Austin Stars Drum & Bugle Corps, is sponsoring two new winter guard programs. ATXguard will be a competitive, independent guard competing in TCGC and TECA circuits with membership open to anyone age 14 to 22 years old. ATXstars will be an exhibition guard with a […]
Local talent has been invited overseas to perform in a ceremony to honour a key piece of Canadian and world history next year. The Kawartha Kavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps will be the guest Canadian band at the 65th anniversary of D-Day at the Juno Beach Centre in Normandy next June, the organization stated in […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are racing full out on the holiday weekend, with major events on July 4, 5 and 6, including a special performance at the Watkins Glen race track on Sunday, July 6. An audience of about 50,000 is expected to be in the stands for the Camping World Grand Prix race on the […]
Kiltie Klassic XV ushered in the 2008 drum corps season to Southeastern Wisconsin with a classic line-up of drum corps at one of the Midwest’s most storied drum corps venues, historic Horlick Field. Then it was off to Madison for a very well received performance at the big DCI Regional at another storied venue, Camp […]
Although the Empire Statesmen drum and bugle corps celebrates its 25th anniversary this year without its founder, Vince Bruni, it will mark the milestone with the same passion he brought to the group. Mr. Bruni, whose spirit inspired musicians for two decades, died on the eve of the Drum Corps Associates Labor Day weekend championship […]
The music. The precision timing. Supporting old teammates. Whatever the reason, thousands of people filled the stands at Central High School’s Kennedy Stadium feel the power and see the pageantry as talented drum and bugle corps battled it out Saturday to be the best of the Barnum Festival. The annual Champions on Parade competition proved […]
Cue the trumpet section: The Kingston Grenadier Drum and Bugle Corps is making a comeback. The only all-ages drum and bugle corps in the province is slowly rebuilding after the heady days of the 1960s and early ’70s. You can check them out Sunday at 2 p.m. when they present a full dress rehearsal at […]
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