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BYBA Festival Of Fun And Music Celebrates 25 Years

The British Youth Band Association are again proud to announce that it’s Festival of Fun and Music (which is now celebrating it’s amazing 25th Year!) looks set to be an extremely well attended affair again for 2007, and with the top National and International instructional staff now being finalized, if you are wanting to attend […]

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Italy Opens Championship To Foreign Corps

For the first time, corps from outside Italy will be welcome at the Italian show championship. The Italian organization ‘Italia Marching Show Bands’ hopes this will attract more corps that will provide additional extravaganza during the championship. Every year, a total of around 800 musicians take part in this championship for show bands and marching […]

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Beatrix Appoints New Board Of Directors Members

January 18th, the members of the Vereniging Beatrix Korpsen did choose a new board. For the subsidiary Beatrix’ Drum & Bugle Corps the following board have been appointed. Corps Director: Henk Rosendal Henk Rosendal became a member of Beatrix’ in 1986 after being a member for several years with Excelsior and Avant Courir in Baarn […]

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Black Knights Television Debut

A number of members and staff from the Black Knights Drum and Bugle Corps recently spent an entire day filming for a BBC comedy programme which is being broadcast this week. The members traveled to Guildford in the first week of December to film at an airfield where the filming of Top Gear also takes […]

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DCUK Judges Administrator Announcement

As you may all be aware I am now the coordinator for judging on behalf of DCUK for the 2007 season. There are many exciting changes happening within our activity of which Judging is one of them. At present I am compiling a list of potential people who are interested in judging or maybe just […]

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Fidele Vogelsanger Open House Information

Fidele Vogelsanger Drum and Bugle Corps of Germany will be holding their 2007 Open House on Friday, February 9. More information can be found at the Fidele Vogelsanger website (in German).

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2007 DCE Championships Return To Rotterdam

This year, the DCE European Championships will once again be held in the Sparta Rotterdam Stadium. This week, Drum Corps Europe and Sparta completed the final details of the agreement. On Saturday 29th September 2007, Sparta will be hosting the European Championships for the third consecutive year. "We are delighted to be in Rotterdam again", […]

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Concord Partners With Hardcase

CONCORD Drum and Bugle Corps is proud to announce a new endorsee partnership with HARDCASE INTERNATIONAL LTD – suppliers of top quality cases for musical instruments. The arrangement came through David Eyre – alumni member of the CONCORD snare line and now UK Sales Manager of Hardcase International Limited. David said “I got so much […]

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Drum Corps Germany Shortens Rules Seminar

Drum Corps Germany will shorten its rule seminar. Instead of a complete weekend the seminar now takes place on Sunday, February 2nd, 2007 – subject to sufficient registrations. The number of the participants announced so far does not justify a complete week of meetings. Therefore, the seminar is to take place for one day only. […]

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2007 Drum Corps Japan Championships Report

Welcome to the 2007 Dram… I mean Drum Corps Japan Championships… whoops, someone misspelled "drum" on the championship flags. But that did not stop the seven drum and bugle corps from both east and central Japan from putting on an electrifying show for the masses. Though it was assured the name did not change, Drum […]

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