Two of Europe’s leading National Drum Corps organisations are pleased to announce that they have agreed to embrace the recently announced Drum Corps Europe Certified Partnership scheme. Drum Corps Netherlands (DCN) and Drum Corps United Kingdom (DCUK) have formally adopted the working framework of certified partnership status with Drum Corps Europe (DCE) and as such […]
Drum Corps Europe has appointed Tony Mackenzie-Jones as the DCE Adjudication Manager. Tony will coordinate all judging matters as part of the DCE management team. Tony’s first active involvement in marching music was marching in a scout band. After serving in the army (being involved in a pipe and brass band) he studied for A […]
Southern Aurora and Legion Star from Brighton and Crawley in Sussex are pleased to announce that they will be performing ‘The Southern Express’ as their 2008 Summer Season production. Based on music from the Polar Express, The 2008 production will take the audience on a roller coaster ride of emotions, and mood changes, from the […]
Drum Corps Europe is introducing a new level of strategic partner, known as ‘Certified Partners’. National organisations that use the DCE Competition Manual for all their contests, and also use the DCE judging team may call themselves ‘DCE Certified Partners’. The ‘Certified Partnership’ idea is a result of discussions between DCE and national drum corps […]
Registration for the DCE Championships 2008 has ended. Yesterday was the last opportunity to register directly. Like previous years, DCE has received more registrations than available spots. Thirteen corps have already been placed for the DCE Championships 2008, based on their results during the DCE Championships 2007. On December 9th, the other corps will be […]
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 […]
DCUK is pleased to announce that their next Directors College event will take on Saturday 19th January and you can register to attend on line on the DCUK site by visiting http://www.dcuk.org.uk/about/dcuk_directors_college.html. This event is open to ANY Corps regardless of whether they are currently in membership of DCUK – so everyone is welcome to […]
DCE are pleased to announce that the Pacemakers Drum and Bugle Corps have accepted an invitation to host the first DCE UK Power Regional, to be held in Londen on 21st June, 2008. The Pacemakers are one of the original founding members of DCUK as well as being long time members of BYBA. They are […]
A Full report and even a DVD of the event are being prepared and will be with us shortly, but if you weren’t there yesterday, 24th November 2007, you would have missed on the biggest turnout of entrants and the largest number of entering Bands so far in over 10 years, beating last years figures […]
While "1492: Mundus Novus" still rings in our hears and hearts, MillenniuM is getting ready to face new challenges in 2008. Again, we will be glad to show you the passion we put in our job, presenting our 2008 production: Dante’s Inferno. Inspired by the famous "Divine Comedy", demons and lost souls will take you […]
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