A female corps director, drum major, and seminar leader talk about the challenges of leading as a woman in DCI. With Vicki MacFarlane (Colts), Kendall Stevenson (Cadets), & Christina Lear. You can listen to us above, or if you want to take us with you, you can download us from iTunes. Read the rest of […]
The Music City Drum Corps family would like to ask you to keep one of its corps members Finis Sparkman in your thoughts and prayers. A snare drummer in the corps, Finis is being monitored in a local hospital after experiencing serious medical issues late this past Tuesday night. Our thoughts are also with his […]
Colin Plante Jr. is a very big young man. Almost big enough, in fact, to be an NFL lineman. He was out on the football field early this morning, warming up with some exercises alongside his 100 or so teammates. They will be here until well past dark. After scarfing down some peanut butter and […]
Everything around us is in pieces. That’s the idea behind the Vanguard Cadets’ 2017 production. And in honor of SCV’s golden anniversary, the Vanguard Cadets design team looked to the organization’s past as inspiration for this year’s show. This year, don’t look for a ‘story’ in the traditional sense. There’s no ‘hero’ or ‘character’ to […]
The 240 members of the Colts and Colt Cadets will be practicing more than music on Saturday, June 10th, as they instead become experts at washing cars! Twenty simultaneous locations will be staffed with members of both corps from 9:00AM to 4:00PM for the annual Colts Car Wash fundraiser. Since the inception of this program […]
Earlier this week, The Daily Eastern News reported on The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, which recently moved in at Eastern for part of their spring training. When that article ran, I got the chance to have my first-ever contributing byline in a news article. I gleefully wrote up a few paragraphs about drum corps […]
GOLD Family, Rehearsal this weekend will be at two sites. Because the stadium at La Puente High School is being used on Saturday, we will be rehearsing just down the road at Workman High School. We will be back La Puente High School on Sunday and back in the stadium. A big “THANK YOU” goes […]
If you haven’t booked your hotel room for DCI Championship week in Indianapolis, your time is running out! We still have rooms available in the Phantom Regiment phan block at the PR Hotel Headquarters – Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. Read the rest of the article here.
An East Texas musician has made it to what is known as the major league of marching music. UT-Tyler senior Kyle Bennett was selected by Drum Corps International to tour across the nation for more than two months. “The audition process starts in the fall, and thousands of people audition for 150 spots within this […]
Summer, for many students, is a time for relaxing, spending time at the pool/lake/beach, maybe going to a camp or two, working a part time job, or taking a few classes. Not for Collyn Taylor of Hernando. She is spending her summer traveling thousands of miles, rehearsing more than 650 hours, appearing in 24 competitions […]
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