After a successful 2013 season celebrating TA’s long and inspiring history, guardians past and present of The Academy got together over the summer to discuss the challenges in taking the much treasured organisation forward. The current Chair, Lisa Darton, would soon have to leave her position heading up the organisation as she prepares for exciting new beginnings that […]
With the tickets for the 2013 DCUK British Drum Corps Championships having just gone on sale we thought now would be a good time to take a look back to last years Championships in Mansfield and make all the 2012 Finals performances available free to view for the next few weeks. This service is being […]
The Box Office for the 34th British Drum Corps Championships, being held on Saturday 21st September at the Select Security Stadium, Widnes, Cheshire will be opening on Monday 22nd July 2013 at 8am and ticket prices are as follows: £16.00 – Gold Seating Area £13.00 – Silver Seating Area £10.00 – Bronze Seating Area £FREE […]
Thurrock Marching Brass attended their first competitive show on Sunday 7 July 2013, which was held at Coseley School in the West Midlands. Competing in the Cadet Class, the show saw the young marching band up against 5 time Cadet Class Champions the 37th Kingswood Cadets, who had not lost a single Championship for the […]
THE COMPANY topped the first DCUK contest in Bradford. We scored 71.55 points over the second placed Kidsgrove Scouts with 66.9 a special Thank You to the Scouts for taking the time to watch the repeat performance – really nice touch. We have uploaded to Youtube our performance below, Read the rest of the article […]
For the past few years Mansfield Town FC have provided DCUK the venue for the British Drum Corps Championships but this year they were promoted out of the Football Conference back into the main Football League and as a result need to carry out works to the ground which means they are unable to host […]
Ticket sales for the DCE European Championships will start on 15th of May from 9 pm CET (8 pm GMT). The overwhelming interest in the traditional start of the presale on the 1st of May caused the website to crash. Drum Corps Europe regrets the error and has been working hard on the technology in […]
The ticket sale for the DCE European Championships has been postponed. At the start of the ticket sale, the website received too much traffic which caused the server to go down. It seems that every year more and more people want to buy good tickets for the DCE European Championships. And we are prepared for […]
On Saturday April 20 2013 Vlamo (Flemish organisation for not-professional musicians) organised the clinic “Vlamo meets Blast” in Evergem (Belgium). Two former performers of Blast taught the participants in brass (Sanford Jones) and percussion (Jeff Queen). We asked Jeff to respond to a few questions. It is said, percussionists are no brass players. Why choose […]
The show this year will take the Corps in another direction which we hope will push the performers to another level and produce an entertaining show for the Audience and Judges. Beeches have added to their instructors for this season and also taken the decision to move the written book in house, apart from the […]
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