FB Drum & Bugle Corps from The Hague – The Netherlands have presented their new logo. The corps thought it was time for a new logo as the corps changed their name from Federatieband to FB Drum & Bugle Corps earlier this year. The corps from The Hague was looking for a modern replacement of […]
Campaigns are swinging into action across the region as eight groups in ITV West learned today that they have made it through to compete in The People’s Millions TV contest for Big Lottery Fund money worth £5 million. Five groups in the region will win awards of up to £50,000 each for their community project […]
Pride of Bristol are please to announce that they have entered into a Strategic Partnership with local education centre Filton College. The new group will be called the Pegasus Academy of Performing Arts, honouring the Engine produced in Filton by the Bristol Engine Company, then Rolls Royce when it acquired the firm in 1966. Pegasus’ […]
This Saturday, the registration for the DCE European Championships 2009 will begin. Corps will be able to register during the whole of November. The participants list will be published mid-December. Like in previous years, criteria will be used for selection (the criteria will be published when the registration starts). 2007 DCE Open Class finalists and […]
Marching Music France and Drum Corps Europe will enter a strategic partnership. Marching Music France is a new French music organisation, and one of their aims is to promote the drum corps style in their country. With education, Marching Music France wants to teach musicians ‘the drum corps way’ during national summer camps, with the […]
After a delay of many months, the DVDs and CDs of the DCE Championships 2007 are ready to ship next week. Due to illness of the staff member who was responsible for the sound, the post production of the DVDs and CDs was delayed. With the great help of Joe Rodwell (instructor and brass arranger […]
The webcast of the DCE European Championships last Saturday was a big success. More than 2300 drum corps fans watched the Drum Corps Europe webcast. Due to some connection problems the stream had some problems, mainly in the afternoon. In the evening the connection became better, and more fans tuned in. The highest total of […]
The Senators from Eastleigh and Jong Jubal from Dordrecht are the 2008 champions of Drum Corps Europe. In the Parkstad Limburg Stadium, the audience was treated on fantastic drum corps shows in both the Open and Cadet Class. Second place in the Open Class went to Beatrix, and Jubal came in third. Juliana, 5th in […]
2008 was one of my most beautiful, but also one of my toughest years with Beatrix’. It all started with hassle during the design phase of the program. There was a lot of hassle with arrangers and the percussion parts were extremely late. By June it looked as if this would become a lost season. […]
Drum Corps Europe will make a live webcast of the DCE Championships this Saturday in Kerkrade, with audio and video streaming. Drum corps fans who can’t travel to Kerkrade will still be able to see what’s happening in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium. In previous years a webcam sent a picture to the server every 5 […]
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