Butts Park Arena and the top 30 Bands from within the British Youth Band Association had to battle continuous challenges with the weather, but there was nothing that was going to detract from one of the most exciting and close fought National Championships to date! A full report with be coming shortly, but our sincere […]
Following January’s ‘whole activity’ conference in Leicester, the Federation has been working on a Youth Music grant application to deliver one of the suggestions made by discussion groups during the day. It has just been announced that The Federation will receive a £29,700 grant to deliver a pilot project to encourage bands and corps to […]
Concord opened proceedings with a regal fanfare by their fanfare team, setting the scene for Poynton Commodore Cadets who gave us a rousing exhibition. The crowd were enthusiastic from the start and the young members must have enjoyed this. Tunes such as "When the Saints" and "Great Escape" got the crowd clapping along throughout, with […]
After Jim Casella, Wayne Downey and Jonathan Schwartz, InCorps proudly presents Phantom Regiment’s Percussion caption head and arranger Paul Rennick as our new Percussion Expert! Paul Rennick is a Lecturer in the Percussion Department of the University of North Texas. Having taught, written, and arranged for many of the most successful percussion ensembles in the […]
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 […]
The Norwegian Band Federation (NMF) invited the FBF to tour western Norway and perform at the Stavanger Spilleglede Festival. On our way there we stopped in Amsterdam and travelled down to Zwevegem, in Flanders to work with VLAMO, the Flemish amateur music organisation. They trained our FBF members in show design and choreography. In fact […]
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 […]
"After going into DCUK finals from an undefeated season, the current European champions Senators, from Eastleigh, Hampshire won a record breaking eighth DCUK title with a clean sweep of caption awards." A report by Jayson Brinkler. "The senators with their show ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ had been dominate all season and despite defending champion Kidsgrove […]
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