It’s not easy being in a drum corps – riding in a bus all summer, hitting a different city every day and marching your heart out. "It’s no fun, and we actually pay to do this – we pay to sleep on school gym floors," said Jeremy Beck, a member of the world champion Blue […]
Seven drum corps from across the country gathered Tuesday night at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium to compete in Drums Across Kansas. For the groups involved, the contest was one stop on a summer long musical marathon. Ross Viner has been the contest coordinator for Drums Across Kansas since it began 10 years ago. Viner […]
Wichita Falls’ Jake Ledford and Nathan Ascano are learning corps values, and they’re learning them the hard way. They spend endless torturous, grueling, surly hours under the searing sun. They march endlessly. Read the rest of the article here.
Not one, not two, but three drum and bugle corps from Canada made Sunday night stopovers at Horicon Public Schools. All three rehearsed Monday for a 7 p.m. field competition in Madison. Following the competition in Madison, the Hype Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamilton, Ontario and Stemtors of Sherbrooke, Quebec, returned to Horicon to […]
Carly Moskalski has had a busy summer. The 16-year-old mellophone player from Webb City is touring with the Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Lexington, Ky. She has practiced with the band for up to 12 hours a day since May, sleeping on floors in school gymnasiums, living out of a bus, and paying […]
The Cadets of Allentown, Pa., edged out crowd favorite Phantom Regiment of Rockford, Ill., Monday during the Bob Costello Festival of Drum Corps. The festival is part of Drum Corps International’s Summer Music Games. The games culminate the second week in August during the 2007 World Champ-ionships in Pasadena, Calif. The Colts of Dubuque, Iowa, […]
EnCorps! Video from Drum Corps International lets you watch select performances from your favorite Drum Corps International units – whenever you want – as often as you want! Available exclusively to DCI.org Fan Network Platinum Members, the EnCorps! Video presentation of the DCI San Antonio Southwestern Championship event from July 21 in San Antonio, Texas […]
Local high school band members got a chance to march with some of the best drum and bugle corps members in the country — if not the world — Monday during a clinic conducted as part of Thunder in the Desert at Grande Stadium. The Glassmen from Toledo, Ohio, showed youngsters from Midland and other […]
Lineups for the July 28, DCI Indianapolis major event in Indiana and the Drums Along the Rockies major event in Denver, Colo. Lineups were determined by the competitive results of the DCI Southwestern Championship on July 21 in San Antonio, Texas, in combination with a random draw in groups of threes (1-3 ranked corps, 4-6 […]
Drum Corps International Audio Performance Downloads (APDs) are here for the 2007 summer season! After select 2007 Summer Music Games Tour events, you’ll be able to purchase and download audio files of your favorite corps performances straight to your computer’s hard drive. APDs of corps performances from the DCI San Antonio Southwestern Championship on Saturday, […]
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