Performance opportunities sometimes come along that are great fun to do, help raise our local profile, and allow us to raise some funds…..and The Gunpowder Plot at Boughton House was all of those. And if that wasn’t enough, David Hasselhoff was there on the first night. Without even knowing it, we had drummed for the […]
The Indoor Music Games are coming to Middelburg – The Netherlands on Saturday 23rd April 2016, with a contest to be run in collaboration with Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps. The Indoor Music Games are a series of contests from February to May which will be held in several European countries. The shows are aimed […]
Thurrock Marching Brass is delighted to announce that Jay Lindner has been appointed by the board as Corps Director for the next three years. Jay comes to us with a varied and rich history in the marching and performing arts, having started his musical career at Tilbury Brass in 1982 where he spent six years […]
Chilly days in July and August did nothing to subdue the exuberance of the thousands of people who took part in, or attended, Field Band Foundation regional championships held in the Northern Cape’s Kuruman, Gauteng’s Soweto, Eastern Cape’s Dordrecht, and Limpopo’s Thabazimbi. With substantial financial and other supported provided by the Department of Arts & […]
For the first time since 1985 the borough’s own Thurrock Marching Brass fielded a competitive marching band at a European Championships, where the young Lions would be outnumbered, outsized, and the clear underdogs for what turned out to be one of the most memorable European Championships for some time at the Parkstad Limburg Stadium in […]
After a thrilling final, the Kidsgrove Scouts are the European champions in the Premier Clas. Although the British corps was behind The Company in the Prelims, in the evening it overtook its component. With 91.25 points, the corps won the title. The Finals flew by. It was unprecedented to see how the entire top ten […]
On Saturday 19th September the UK saw its first official DrumLine Battle™ take place with 4 units battling it out to be crowned the days Champion. The event took place as part of the 2015 British Drum Corps Championships in Widnes, Cheshire and immediately followed the last performance in the Open Class Finals competition and […]
2016 will see the re-launch of the Indoor Music Games across Europe, a series of SoundSport events produced by Drum Corps Europe in cooperation with Drum Corps International and the national sanctioning organization in each country sponsoring an event. The series will debut in Dublin, Ireland on Sat 27th February 2016 and finish in Glasgow, […]
The weather was perfect on Saturday 19th September as DCUK returned for the 3rd time to the fantastic facilities of the Select Security Stadium in Widnes, Cheshire for the 36th British Drum Corps Championships. Once again the “i-pitch” astro turf pitch provided a perfect marching surface for the competing units and so the day was […]
Herman Mashaba, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Chairman of the Field Band Foundation, was honoured last night at the prestigious Business Day BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard, with the Arts Champion of the Year Award. This is one of four Special Awards selected at the discretion of the BASA Board, and is given to an individual for […]
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