It was a night of flash and brass Monday as the Sevier County High School Band held its 31st annual Drum Corps International competition. The event, which is a fundraiser for the high school ensemble, drew six touring groups and hundreds of people out to Burchfield Stadium. Band director Russell Ramsay called the event a […]
Last week, MTSU hosted the Drum Corps International "Masters of the Summer Music Games" at Floyd Stadium. According to the official Web site, DCI is a 30-year-old national organization that bolsters "excellence in performance and in life" for drum and bugle corps across the country. The event this past weekend featured eight bands from six […]
One of the top groups from past Northeast Louisiana Summer Music Games returns to West Monroe next week for public rehearsals on Tuesday. The Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps from Canton, Ohio, will rehearse throughout the day Tuesday at West Monroe High School, with a run through its entire show at the end of the […]
Jessica Speer has been sleeping on high school gym floors in a different city every day since the summer began. But, she doesn’t mind. The 22-year-old Broussard resident and UL music major is on a national tour with the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. Lafayette will be a stop on the 135-member corps’ tour […]
The music took Bridgette Wilson back to high school on Monday night. Years ago, Wilson ran across football fields as a member of Tupelo High School’s color guard. She pulled off precision moves and enjoyed the applause. It was a world her husband, Fred, missed during his high school days, but she shared some of […]
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 Coltrin & Associates DCI Southeastern Championship event from July 14 in Atlanta, Ga., […]
For the first time in nearly 40 years, Ellen Barton Morrison is returning to Midland. A business communications professor at the Red McComb School of Business at University of Texas at Austin, Morrison is coming to see one of her students perform in Thunder in the Desert. The event is set for 7 p.m. July […]
Lineups for the July 21, DCI San Antonio Southwestern Championship in San Antonio, Texas. Lineup was determined by the competitive results of the DCI Southeastern Championship on July 14 in Atlanta, Ga., in combination with a random draw in groups of threes (1-3 ranked corps, 4-6 ranked corps, etc.). The four top scoring corps from […]
The Vanguard Cadets would like to extend a warm thank you to all of the friends and family who came out to support us at our dress rehearsal last night, Thursday, June 28. We couldn’t have asked for a better audience to premiere our freshly minted 2007 show, "Ascension." A very special thanks to both […]
Last night’s Fiesta De Musica at Memorial High School could easily have been subtitled "Bodies in Motion," given the lively performances by seven regional drum and bugle corps regimens. Set by set, uniformed marimba players dashed from keyboard to cymbal to gong as flag twirlers twirled on the field, dodging drummers and horn blowers, all […]
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