Anyone who thought drum corps in Kewanee was dead should have been at Wethersfield High School Wednesday afternoon to see The Spirit of Atlanta. Kewanee has a long history of drum corps with the Black Knights senior corps in the 1950s and 60s, and the Knights junior corps in the 70s, but they moved on […]
The exodus had begun even before the show started. The 150 members of the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps – in town along with six other groups who represent the “professional ranks of marching bands” – trudged back and forth from the Metamora Township High School gymnasium to the four charter buses that awaited […]
The Portland-based Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps has become a Seaside Independence Day celebration tradition. Over the last seven years the competitive corps has been marching in Seaside’s annual Fourth of July Parade. On July 3, 135 members of the Corps put on a special free public presentation at Broadway Field and on July […]
With the summer of 2012 now more than halfway complete, The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps is continuing its momentum and pushing into July, the most action-packed month of the season. Since The Cavaliers kicked off the season in Akron, Ohio, the corps has been busy traversing the nation and bringing ’15 Minutes of Fame’ […]
The luxury Super Seats for the DCE Championships are sold out. This means that all skybox seats in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium have been allocated. And if you want a good seat in the stands, you shouldn’t wait too long! Last year, the new luxury Super Seats were introduced for the first time for drum […]
Current undergraduate or graduate-level music education majors are welcome to attend the 2012 Drum Corps International World Championship Semifinals as our guest. Designed especially for music education students, you’ll have the opportunity to spend the day immersed in the marching arts, interacting with guest presenters and learning alongside fellow future music educators. Read the rest […]
Yesterday looked very similar to the day before. To better accommodate the clinic, The Cadets flipped their schedule around so that sectionals were in the morning and visual rehearsal was after lunch. During each section’s warm-up, their respective staff members spent time talking to the high school students about The Cadets’ approach to marching music—why […]
Pioneer currently has immediate openings in the color guard and the front ensemble. We also have the ability to add up to 6 additional brass players. We would love to take more, but unfortunately that’s what the drill is written for and it would be a fairly tough at this point to rewrite the entire […]
WHAT: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S PREMIERE DRUM & BUGLE CORPS “GOLD” HOSTS THE SUMMER OLYMPICS OF MUSICAL MARCHING ARTS FEATURING SEVERAL COMPETING CORPS FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: · Pacific Crest – Diamond Bar, CA · Gold – San Diego, CA · Vanguard Cadets – Santa Clara, CA · Blue Devils B – Concord, CA · City […]
Not to be outdone by their neighbors to the north or west, Midwestern drum corps alumni will reunite on Monday, July 16 in Lebanon, Ill., just prior to the 2012 edition of DCI St. Louis presented by Etymotic Research. Hosted by McKendree University, alumni from a number of corps including the American Woodmen, Bellettes, Black […]
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