What better way to find yourself or that special drum corps fan on your gift list a treasure from drum corps years gone by! Starting November 9,2006 at 10:00 PM EST, Drum Corps World and its auction partner, www.drumcorpsnation.com, will launch another series of auctions containing drum and bugle corps items that span the activity […]
“The Beat Goes On” now contains an even 100 CDs, with the addition of the 12 discs described below. If you like the sounds of drum corps from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, check back every three or four months, because there’s a lot more material in the archives of Stetson D. Richmond and Alf […]
It’s back, it’s a bit rough, but that’s why we love it!!! TODAY: 1. Why “On The 50″ went away for the off-season 2. Plans for this week Running Time: 5:22 (3.8 MB)
Did you march in one of these groups? This fall Steve Vickers, publisher of Drum Corps World, will complete work on a new history book that contains nearly 2,200 drum and bugle corps images. The vast majority of photographs have been accumulated from the extensive archives of Drum Corps World, but there are a number […]
Steve Vickers, the publisher of Drum Corps World, is working on a new book project that involves locating approximately 2,200 different photographs of various corps from over the past three and a half decades. The Drum Corps World photo archives are quite extensive — well over 10,000 prints — but there are a number of […]
We have a Winner!DrumCorpsPlanet readers were invited in March and early April to submit original essays addressing the subject "The positive impact the Drum Corps activity has on people’s lives", as their entries in our DCI Championships Ticket Contest. The contest closed at midnight on April 15th and the process of review began. After reading […]
Hobbyist recording engineer Ken Mason, a long-time member of the Drum Corps World writing staff, has contributed a great service to the drum and bugle corps activity by preserving thousands of performances recorded originally by Stetson D. Richmond and Alf Wateska during a time period that spanned from 1950 to the late 1970s. Richmond passed […]
The U.S. Naval Academy Drum & Bugle Corps is looking to increase its staff by one with the addition of an Assistant Director. The corps, based in Annapolis, MD, has recently undergone a comprehensive expansion plan. A major component of the expansion plan drawn up by corps director, Mr. Jeff Weir, was the addition of […]
The Central High School Kiltie Drum and Bugle Corps will celebrate its 80th anniversary with a performance Wednesday at Park Central Square, site of the corps’ first performance. The Kilties were the first all-female drum and bugle corps in the United States. Following the performance, a memorial will be placed at the gravesite of R. […]
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