Barry Janicula and John Allnutt will reinforce the staff of Beatrix’ Drum & Bugle Corps during the upcoming USA Tour. As mentioned earlier, Barry designed the drill for Beatrix’ this season. During the summer, he will be part of the visual staff. Barry has a lot of experience in show design. He wrote drill for […]
Drum Corps Europe (DCE) will introduce a new advice system that allows corps to make suggestions for changes in the DCE Competition Manual. Following the pilot that took place at beginning of 2008, DCE have now held a meeting with their Certified Partners (Drum Corps Netherlands [DCN] & Drum Corps United Kingdom [DCUK]) to decide […]
After another month of rehearsals since out last performance, last Saturday marked the second performance of Beatrix’s new program, The City, this season. Once again, it took place in Dordrecht, only now not in the town centre but in the FC Dordrecht Stadium. This was in order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stichting […]
Jubal, Calypso and Johan Friso have topped the first Drum Corps Netherlands contest, last night in Middeleburg. Hundreds of drum corps fans travelled to Middelburg to watch the kick off of the Dutch drum corps season. Jubal from Dordrecht won the Open Class with a score of 64.10, followed by Juliana from Middelburg (58.55) and […]
After having toured through the US five times with borrowed and rented trucks, a dream has finally come true! In 2004 Jeff Fiedler, former director of The Cavaliers, asked us “Did you bring your own truck??” Unfortunately we had to admit that the white monster had been rented, and completely decorated in Beatrix’ style. If, […]
Easter fell very early this year, and the weather forecast wasn’t very good, but Beatrix’ managed to make a big success of their 2008 camp. Thursday night, 20.30, the members got on the bus at the corps’ home in Hilversum to leave for Roggel, Limburg. After they arrived they had some time to get their […]
For the second time this year, on Saturday December 8th Beatrix opens its doors for an open house. Reason for this is that there’s still room for growth in all sections of the corps, and we want to invite everyone who might be interested in filling up a spot, to this special rehearsal to come […]
Finally we can say that it’s definite that Beatrix will travel to the US this summer. The plane tickets are booked, which was the one remaining obstacle for the organization of the tour. Now that we’ve got that out of the way we can gladly say that the corps will be making the travel across […]
Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps from Dordrecht has topped the Drum Corps Netherlands contest in their home town. But it was a close call: Northern Star became second, winning four out of eight captions. Jubal scored 76.30, winning the captions Music Effect, Field Percussion and Color Guard. Northern Star are one point behind (75.30), taking […]
If the saying ‘a good beginning is half the work’ is correct, then, because of what a wonderful drum corps evening in The Hague was it shows the promise of the rest of the season. Almost 500 fans saw how 9 corps tried to obtain the best of themselves this early in the season. Read […]
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