Odessa’s Western Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps won’t have much time for playing around this weekend. Following a Thursday evening send off and food fundraiser at Floyd Gwin Park, the group was set to leave today for an exhibition in Columbus, Texas, and will participate in the Southwest Regional Competition at the Alamodome in San […]
The Vanguard Cadets have been hard at work in Northern CA with all-day rehearsals and local performances. After about two weeks of “9 to 9? rehearsals as they call them, the Corps debuted their new uniforms in performance at the Monterey 4th of July Parade and later that day at California’s Great America theme park […]
Rising Tides summarizes the past week of tour with in-depth reviews and interviews of Pacific Crest staff and members. We are grateful to alumnus John Riley for writing these stories! Utah – July 6, 2015 This is what the membership has been waiting for. Sure, tour started in mid-June, but the night of July 5, […]
In this episode of Inside Pacific Crest, corps director Stuart Pompel talks about the move of Corps at the Crest to the Rose Bowl. The episode also features performance footage of Pacific Crest from the show. Watch the video here.
Drum Corps International rehearsals in Minnesota have begun for marching bands. The regional competition will be on Saturday at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. The Blue Devils from California are the 2014 world champions and have already won on the East Coast. As far as Saturday goes, the Blue Devils have supposedly beefed […]
At 3:30 am on the morning of July 9, four buses rolled quietly into town carrying 150 young musicians traveling together with the Spirit of Atlanta Drum Corps. In Pine Bluffs they found a place to rest, practice and prepare for their next competition in Laramie. A fifth truck, the food truck, parked and quickly […]
Sometime on the night of Monday, July 13, 2015/early morning of Tuesday, July 14, 2015, our equipment trailer was broken into and several horns and other pieces of equipment were stolen. We’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign using IndieGoGo to help cover the replacement costs. Read the rest of the article here.
A lively crowd sat in the bleachers as seven of the top drum and bugle corps in the country performed during the Drums Across Nebraska event held Monday evening at Heedum Field. Sponsored by the non-profit organization Drum Corps International, thousands of students ages 16-21 audition to make one of 26 corps that travel around […]
Rain was no deterrent to the drummers of Louisiana Stars, Lafayette’s own drum and bugle corps, as they took shelter under the overhang of Cajun Field during a recent practice session. Some drummers beat their tenor drums, matching the force of the rain on the metal roof above their heads. Others sat in the stands, […]
The Drum Corps International Tour arrived in Minnesota on Saturday at TCF Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus. Twenty drum corps teams from around the U.S., including three from Minnesota, featured elite brass musicians, percussionists and color guard performers. Judy Griesedieck caught some of the action. See more photos here: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/… Watch the video […]
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