Alumni, will you be in Indianapolis for DCI Championships this year? If so, we’d like for you to join us for two special events. First, please join us for breakfast with the A Corps on Friday, August 10 (time TBA). The breakfast will take place at the A Corps’ housing site. Read the rest of […]
Place a Letter from Home in our Drum Corps in the Village Event program. If you are looking to congratulate a Legends Drum Corps member and tell them how proud you are of them and all their hard work, this is a great opportunity to do so! This is also a great opportunity to congratulate […]
The rehearsal days are finally here! The Cadets are in the middle of their three-day stay in Cullowhee, NC at Western Carolina University. George Hopkins is back on tour as well as a nearly full panel of design staff, including brass arranger Jay Bocook and drill writer Jeff Sacktig. Yesterday, the corps learned a whopping […]
A national champion drum and bugle corps took a pit stop in North Platte Sunday, practicing at North Platte High School. “We are on an eight-week national tour,” said Dan Farrell, program director for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Crops based in Rockford, Ill. “We’re between performances in Denver and Omaha.” Read the rest […]
Drum Corps International has received a statement from the board of directors of the Teal Sound Drum and Bugle Corps, announcing its decision to suspend operations for the remainder of the 2012 season, effective immediately. “We are saddened to learn of the loss of this great drum corps from the balance of the 2012 DCI […]
Today we celebrated the life of Daniel J. Burke, beloved husband and father, son, brother, friend, board member, and educator. “A Life Remembered” stories were shared by Frank Meacham, Blue Knights alumnus and a dear friend for 30 years, Mark Arnold, friend and Executive Director of Ascend Performing Arts, and John Milota, a friend and […]
The winds were strong and the clouds were menacing. Experts pegged the chance of rain at 60 percent. Ninety minutes later, the sky was Wyoming blue with nary a whispy cloud. It turns out Friday’s “Drums Along the Rockies — Casper” was the only Drums Along the Rockies event this season. Read the rest of […]
In its 85th year of continuous operation, the Racine Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps is ending its season early with an eye toward reorganization, according to manager Andrea Birbilis. “The corps is not dead,” she said Monday. “We will reorganize and come out again in 2013.” She also stressed that the decision to end the […]
As rehearsal was coming to a close at Jackson on Saturday, I was watching the radar. A storm was coming and it was going to rain, but how much? We decided after a conference to NOT open the stadium until after the rain. Clearing the location would be tough and there was not a great […]
Alex Liddell, 19, was a drum major at Auburn High School his junior and senior years, conducting the band at sports games and helping the band director run rehearsals. During his senior year last year, he was asked to play tuba in the school’s band to beef up the brass section. He did. He then […]
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