Shining Beat, All Japan Infant Marching Association’s 20th annual marching carnival took place at the historic Osaka-jo (Osaka Castle) Hall on Monday, November 3rd. 14 nursery schools (that’s right, we are talking about preschoolers here) from Osaka and Hyogo prefectures brought in drum corps to this unique event. Corps instrumentation included drums, bells and synthesizers. […]
Alturas Supermarket brings together once again the best and the finest drum corps in Visayas and Mindanao for one spectacular day in the 21st Alturas Drum & Bugle Corps Showdown, scheduled at the CPG Sports Complex this coming November 23, featuring sexy star/comedienne Giselle Sanchez. The main highlight in the 23rd Anniversary Celebration of Alturas […]
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 […]
Following on from a very successful 2008 season, Spirit of Coventry are looking for Staff/Instructors in various key areas to facilitate the new season. These are: Corps CoordinatorGuard Caption HeadFront Line Caption HeadPercussion StaffBrass Caption Head Read the rest of the article here.
Indoor Percussion Europe and Drum Corps Europe are proud to announce that they will enter a partnership. The DCE judging panel will judge at IPE events, starting next year. "Indoor Percussion Europe is the counterpart of Drum Corps Europe", says DCE chairman Marcel Matthijsse. "IPE has the same European goals with indoor percussion as Drum […]
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 […]
The 30th Annual Kansai Marching Band Contest took place at Maishima Arena in Osaka on October 19th. In the independent class, eight marching units, including six drum and brass/bugle corps were on hand, competing for two seats in the All-Japan National Contest, to be held at the Saitama Super Aena this coming January. Today was […]
Over the past 3 years, the Trinity School Showband have been working to a plan that would develop their members and staff in order to prepare for pushing themselves further. At a recent meeting, it was decided that the work that started in 2006 has been a huge success not only for the members, but […]
Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce their arrival on Facebook. The official DCUK Facebook group has been set up to bring together the UK Drum Corps community, to share news of current DCUK events and, as we enter our 30th season, to share cherished memories of days gone by. There are programmes, yearbooks, […]
Sunday 5th October 07.30am the rain was pouring down and I had a two hour trip to Coventry for the 2008 British Youth Band Association Championships, where six British Champions would later be crowned. I hoped that the weather would clear ready for the first band but on arrival the weather was just as bad […]
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