Last September, Beatrix’ Drum & Bugle Corps? drumline won the Best Percussion caption award. It was won in both the Dutch DCN Championship and the European DCE Championships. To win it is one step; the art is in keeping it. Every season the drumline starts the season by going back to basics. This year is […]
The end of Drum Corps Germany as an association with members is near. On 19th February a new board needs to be elected and current board members will make their seats available. However, new candidates for the board have not yet been found. Due to other commitments, the current board members of DCG have stated […]
With the founding of Beatrix Association two years ago, the board decided that the educational plan should receive more attention. The current goal is to make sure that all children who play an instrument are able to read music, in order to raise the overall musical level and to make the transition from Jong Beatrix […]
The Athlone Ravens Marching Band is set to make history this year by becoming the first junior Irish marching band ever to compete at the Drum Corps European Championships in Holland. The Ravens are two-time All-Ireland champions and the impressive standard of the band?s U2-inspired show in 2010 enabled it to qualify for the European […]
Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps has released its US tour schedule for next summer. The corps will participate in nine contests, making the tour into a journey of 5700 kilometers. Between 21st July and 14th August, Jubal will enter nine DCI contests. When the corps flies to Atlanta on the 21st of July, the instruments […]
Brecht Lingier is the third Belgian who will be entering DCI this summer in a top 12 corps. This weekend, he got a place in the bass line of Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps from Maumee – Ohio. Lingier will be the heartbeat of the drum line this summer, playing bottom bass. Brecht Lingier grew […]
Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce details of the Corps that have registered so far for the 2011 season: Open Class 37th Kingswood – Bristol, Avon Black Knights – Gravesend, Kent Cheshire Cadets – Warrington, Cheshire Kidsgrove Scouts – Kidsgrove, Staffordshire Nexus – Biggleswade & Bedford, Bedfordshire Phantom Knights – Warwickshire Poynton Commodores […]
We are pleased to announce that as a follow-up to our very successful 2010 Imaginarium show, Volo di Fantasia (pronounced fan-tass-ee-a) will be our major 2011 theatre show. Let your dreams take flight as Concord explore the realms of musical and visual fantasy in an exciting and non-stop 2-hour feast of absorbing sensory experiences. The […]
Concord Youth Music of Sheffield have announced that they will be hosting the 2011 Northern Preview event in their home city. The show offers the opportunity to view the pre-season performances of some of the UK’s finest drum corps and marching bands in a stress-free, non-competitive environment. The show will be held in the North’s […]
Sand and all the images and sounds it evokes is what Besana Marching Band from Italy will bring on the field with their 2011 show 25N: Kingdom of Sand. BMB explains their show title as follows: “The 25th parallel north, from Morocco to the Middle East, is a world embracing a variety of stories, cultures, […]
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