Some invisible force has tugged them to this dark parking lot – 286 strong, from around the nation. It has disrupted two years of their lives, demanded time and money and, to be honest, a whole lot of Advil. All for the next 13 minutes. "I know my life’s been forever changed," said Donna Jackson, […]
For five days television viewers and newspaper readers have been seeing the black sedan stranded in the middle of the Mississippi River on I-35W’s broken bridge. It is hard to imagine anyone walking away after falling 64 feet in that car, but that is exactly what Emily Paden did. "I have a fracture on my […]
Reading Buccaneers are still cruising down the river ahead of everybody else, but Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are splashing closely behind, finishing less than two points behind the Bucs in the Sounds on the Susquehanna contest in Binghamton, New York on August 4. Buccaneers, still undefeated in 2007, won the contest with 90.288 points, with Statesmen […]
Twenty-two corps will battle it out for the title of 2007 World Champion on Saturday, September 1 in Rochester, NY in the preliminary round, hoping to secure a spot in the finals the next evening. This year, there is no distinction between A Class and Open Class in the prelims. All 22 corps will go […]
This coming weekend, August 3rd – August 5th. Weekend rehearsal and Coast Guard Festival Parade The school the corps is staying at is Grand Haven Cristian School 1102 Grant (cross street is ferry street) Grand Haven, MI 49417 Read the rest of the article here.
The Connecticut Hurricanes were honored to lead the parade of athletes into Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport as Connecticut’s Nutmeg Games featured over 6,000 athletes participating in various sporting events. The Hurricanes were the lead unit in the parade and were joined by the Targets from Springfield, Mass., P.A.L. Buccanneers from Bridgeport, and the Prospect Drum […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are the Champions of Sound in Salem, Ohio, scoring 86.013 to take top place in the first-ever Drum Corps Associates (DCA) contest in Salem, on July 28. The win was the second of the season for Statesmen, who have finished in third place behind Reading Buccaneers and Hawthorne Caballeros in three earlier […]
Beginning at noon today, many Salem schools will begin finding their halls filled to the brim. However, it’s not anxious students eagerly awaiting the first day back to school. No, it’s the many members of five drum and bugle corps that will be taking the city—and its schools— by storm. The five drum and bugle […]
August 4th will mark the debut of the new Capital Brass Ensemble. The performance will be the first of a set of weekly appearances at the famous Saratoga Race Track. The track gig is a great get for the young group; procured largely on the reputation of the organizations signature music group: Brass-O-Mania!,which kicked off […]
Rochester’s Empire Statesmen are still climbing steadily on contest score sheets, moving up to 82.663 at the Cavalcade of Champions in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on July 21, but Reading Buccaneers are moving up even faster, winning with a score of 85.525. Hawthorne Caballeros finished second, with 84.463. The Bushwackers, of Harrison, New Jersey finished fourth with […]
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