After winding up 2017 with a lively Christmas banquet and long service award ceremony, Preston Scout House Alumni Band will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of its founding in 1938 with community oriented performances and special events scheduled throughout 2018. The Band, originally the bugle band of the 1st Preston Scout Troop, begins twice-monthly rehearsals […]
Why do two colors, one put next to the other, sing? ~ Pablo Picasso Minnesota Brass Drum and Bugle Corps is excited to announce our 2018 production, BETWEEN THE LINES, featuring the following musical selections: Green (Michael Torke) Mural (Randy Newman) Paint It Black (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) Pure Imagination (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) Read […]
Minnesota Brass, the Midwest’s premiere all-age drum and bugle corps, will adopt a weekend-based rehearsal schedule for 2018. The change will expand the geographical reach of the organization by allowing members and staff to commute from regions more distant from the Twin Cities area, including outstate Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri […]
The Skyliners Drum & Bugle Corps proudly announced their 2018 Brass Staff. SHANE STARTZEL – Brass Caption Head; JOE WILT – Assistant Brass Caption Head and Baritone Tech; MARK HOVER, Trumpet Tech; KIM MILLER, Mellophone Tech; RANDALL BENNETT, Tuba Tech; and DOREEN SANDOR – Brass Tech/Brass Assistant to the Caption Head. Shane Startzel, Brass Caption […]
If you can take direction as well as give it, have a talent for leadership – and are a little stage-struck, too – Minnesota Brass has a job for you. “We are totally excited to have the opportunity to build a strong drum-major team for MBI 2018,” said Brent Turner, himself a former drum major […]
Drum Corps Associates made history at the Annual Meeting in December when Pat Bocker was elected to serve as Vice President. Pat has become the first female in the circuits history to ever sit in the Vice President’s chair. She has a vast knowledge of drum corps having marched, taught, and served on administration boards. […]
The Hawthorne Caballeros are proud to announce Gloria Pennell as the Hawthorne Caballeros’ Historian! Gloria is 100% Hawthorne in that she spent her first three years marching with the Hawthorne Muchachos in 1971, 1972 (color guard captain), and 1973 (color guard captain). In 1982, she joined the Hawthorne Caballeros as one of the organization’s first […]
Alan Chez, trumpet player with Late Night With David Letterman (NBC) and the CBS Orchestra, will present a free brass clinic at the Bushwackers Drum Corps rehearsal camp for brass and percussion on February 3, 2018, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Bushwackers will host the clinic at Olney High School from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. […]
Sunday January 28, 2018 From 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. At the Brandon Elks Lodge 800 Centennial Lodge Dr, Brandon, FL 33510
The Caballeros are proud to welcome Ian Hale as a percussion consultant to their 2018 percussion staff. Ian Hale received degrees in percussion performance from the University of Calgary and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where his teachers included Dr. Glenn Price, Eduardo Leandro and DCI Hall of Fame member Thom Hannum. He has studied […]
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