Gradually, there are more and more Europeans who have been members of a corps which went on to become the DCI world champion. There are precious few, however, who have been members of a winning drum line. The Belgian Thomas Claesen did just that this year. As a member of the Cavaliers drumline, he won […]
Michele Moriggi has joined the Drum Corps Europe web team. He will take on the position of editor of the DCE website’s Italian news page (www.drumcorps.it). In 2005, Moriggi was the first Italian to be a member of a DCI corps (The Cavaliers). He then spent three years as an instructor at Millennium Drum & […]
Four French musicians and guard members have joined the UK based Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps for the 2011 season. Melanie Leleu is part of the the color guard section, and Jerome Capoen joined the front ensemble since the beginning of the season. Read the rest of the article here.
We have reached the half-way stage in the Drum Corps Europe 2011 contest season. It was quite a challenge to provide panels at all of these contests, especially due to last minute changes because of sickness and work commitments. An update by DCE Adjudication Manager Douglas Caldwell. The weather has only been sunny at one […]
Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps from Dordrecht saw its scores shoot up on Saturday in Atlanta compared to the contest in Gadsden – Alabama two days earlier. The corps increased its score by nearly seven points: from 64.90 to 71.80 points. Jubal enjoyed the air conditioning in the impressive stadium in Atlanta. “The Georgia Dome […]
Jubal has entered two Drum Corps International this week, and participates in the International Class (which has the same judging system as the Open Class). The first scores are in for the Dutch. At the first show Jubal entered on Tuesday (Ocean Springs – Mississippi), the corps scored 68.25. At the next show, yesterday in […]
This weekend, Drum Corps Europe will hold a clinic in Indonesia. The clinic, which will take place in Bandung, Indonesia, is aimed at marching band instructors. The possible future use of the DCE Competition Manual for the national competition will also be discussed. DCE judges Wil Bijl and Marco Harder, who were on the judging […]
Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps has experienced a turbulent start to its journey to the USA. Yesterday morning, today’s KLM flight to Houston, which some of the members had been booked onto, was unexpectedly cancelled. Due to the cancellation, all members had to be rebooked onto another flight. Quite a lot of organisation, hassle and […]
The Devils from Witzenhausen – Germany will not perform a show this year. After internal deliberation, the German corps saw no alternative but to take a year-long ‘time out’ from show performances, partly because of high costs. The Devils will be celebrating their 20th anniversary and preparations are in full swing. However, the costs of […]
Further to the recent update about Parlour Sessions, DCE Adjudication Manager Douglad Caldwell has details on the sessions for the remaining contests in 2011. Due to the length of a few contests, there are no sessions scheduled for DCN Championships, DCUK Championships and DCE Championships. As part of the Judges pre-briefing event to a contest, […]
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