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 […]
At a packed Select Stadium in Widnes on Saturday 19 September 2015 the young Lions of Thurrock Marching Brass competed to defend their 2014 Drum Corps United Kingdom (DCUK) Junior Class British Championship title with their 2015 production called Leo, which tells the story of young Lion cubs growing up in the wild, getting captured, […]
Don’t have tickets yet for the European drum corps event of the year, the DCE European Championships? Order them quickly! The ticket sales for the European Championships close on Tuesday. All European top corps are back for the DCE European Championships on Saturday 26th September at the Parkstad Limburg Stadium. The race for the title […]
What a day…what a weekend! Liberty took both the junior and senior corps to Thurrock for the Drum Corps United Kingdom Essex show….the last show before the British Championships. Read the rest of the article here.
Thurrock Marching Brass hosted, for the second year running, an elite marching band contest in the heart of Thurrock at Aveley Football Club on Sunday 6 September 2015. DCUK Essex attracted performing units from across the United Kingdom and they descended on Thurrock for a full day’s entertainment, which included our very own Junior marching […]
Drum Corps Europe has started a crowdfunding campaign in order to keep the live webcast of the DCE European Championships going. Earlier this summer, DCE sounded the alarm about the costs of the popular webcast. Drum corps fans can help by sponsoring the webcast and buying airtime. Drum Corps Europe recently announced that it would […]
In 1990 the Southern Knights Drum & Bugle Corps from Brighton, England embarked on a 3 week trip to the USA to be the first European Corps to compete at the Drum Corps Associates (DCA) World Championships which were held in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2015 we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of this tour. In […]
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