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Four French Join Black Knights 2011

Four French musicians and guard members have joined the UK based Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps for the 2011 season. Melanie Leleu is part of the the color guard section, and Jerome Capoen joined the front ensemble since the beginning of the season. Read the rest of the article here.

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Presentation Of New Pearl Drums To Beatrix Soon

Next Friday will be the kick off for the final part of the season. After a well deserved break, we will get on again to make the last two months of this season the best possible. The members enjoyed their six weeks of vacation. Many got to visit the sun, the sea and beach. Others […]

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Dutch In DCI “Suryono”

It has been on his mind a couple of years: to join a American drumcorps as a volunteer. This year he finally did it; DCI from the sideline. Suryono Wiersma, 30 years old, from Hilversum, had the long time dream to join a DCI corps. After his experience with Beatrix’ during the DCI tour of […]

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DCE Judging Update By Douglas Caldwell

We have reached the half-way stage in the Drum Corps Europe 2011 contest season. It was quite a challenge to provide panels at all of these contests, especially due to last minute changes because of sickness and work commitments. An update by DCE Adjudication Manager Douglas Caldwell. The weather has only been sunny at one […]

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Higher Score For Jubal In Atlanta

Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps from Dordrecht saw its scores shoot up on Saturday in Atlanta compared to the contest in Gadsden – Alabama two days earlier. The corps increased its score by nearly seven points: from 64.90 to 71.80 points. Jubal enjoyed the air conditioning in the impressive stadium in Atlanta. “The Georgia Dome […]

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First Scores For Jubal In DCI

Jubal has entered two Drum Corps International this week, and participates in the International Class (which has the same judging system as the Open Class). The first scores are in for the Dutch. At the first show Jubal entered on Tuesday (Ocean Springs – Mississippi), the corps scored 68.25. At the next show, yesterday in […]

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DCE Organises Clinic In Indonesia

This weekend, Drum Corps Europe will hold a clinic in Indonesia. The clinic, which will take place in Bandung, Indonesia, is aimed at marching band instructors. The possible future use of the DCE Competition Manual for the national competition will also be discussed. DCE judges Wil Bijl and Marco Harder, who were on the judging […]

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Good Luck To Jubal From Beatrix

There already some Dutchmen and Dutchwomen competing DCI, but this week our colleagues at Jubal from Dordrecht will also go to America for their DCI tour. We know what a magnificent feeling and experience it is and therefore we want to wish all the members, staff members and co-workers of Jubal the best of luck […]

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Flight To USA Cancelled For Some Jubal Members

Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps has experienced a turbulent start to its journey to the USA. Yesterday morning, today’s KLM flight to Houston, which some of the members had been booked onto, was unexpectedly cancelled. Due to the cancellation, all members had to be rebooked onto another flight. Quite a lot of organisation, hassle and […]

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Cheshire Cadets Become The Horizon Corps

On Sunday 17th July 2011, Cheshire Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps performed in exhibition for the very last time at DCUK Warrington. The corps will move on as The Horizon Corps. “We dedicated today’s final performance to past amd present members, we put on a fantastic performance today and hopefully it made everyone proud who […]

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