Dear Golfers, Come Golf With ME! I golf once per year and yes, it is at the YEA! Benefit Golf Outing.Seriously, just to see me tee off is worth the price of admission. Indeed, it’s not that I could not golf, but … I have decided that I would become addicted if I went more […]
The Mandarins Brass Academy is dedicated to raising the skill level of brass playing throughout Sacramento and is intended for brass students in high school or college who are motivated to enhance their level of brass performance through a careful study of brass performance techniques. For more information and answers to frequently asked questions, please […]
How does it feel to win a Drum Corps International World Championship? David Gibbs knows. His Concord (Calif.) Blue Devils have won 12 of them in the elite World Class division, half of those since he became the corps’ director in 1991. Gibbs was a soprano bugler for the Blue Devils from 1974 through 1977, […]
Spirits remain high today after the Phantom Regiment’s first-place showing at the Drum Corps International competition. Connie Carlson, projects and event coordinator for the Rockford drum and bugle corps, said merchandise orders at regiment.org have reached 80 in a day and a half, up from the average of three a day. And that’s only for […]
The rain was pouring and lightning flickered across the sky on Sunday, July 27 but it was no match for the Holy Family Defenders, who battled the storm to play their bugles at Rockland’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Defenders bugle and drum corps has a long tradition, which dates back to 1958. The group, then […]
Staff Sgt. Brad Swank has played his lungs out for the king of Norway, the queen of England, two U.S. presidents and the sultan of Oman, but he got his start performing at Conemaugh Township Area High School. The Thomas Mills native has been a contrabass bugler of “The Commandant’s Own,” United States Marine Drum […]
Evan and Carrie VanDoren are home in Bloomington this week, but they’re still not getting to sleep in their own beds. They’re camping out at Binford Elementary School. The VanDoren siblings are members of the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, one of 20 world class elite units competing in this week’s Drum Corps International […]
When the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps emerged out of four charter buses at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, many didn’t know where they were or what day it was. Having been on the road since midnight, the 135 15-to-22-year-olds retrieved their bags and pillows and trudged groggily upstairs to the second level of the Bedford North […]
A new competition to the Indiana landscape is expected to drum up nearly $10 million for the state’s economy, even after an unexpected change of venue. The Drum Corps International World Championship competition will span several days this week at Indiana University’s Memorial Stadium, bringing with it several thousand young performers and some 30,000 fans, […]
The clouds rolled away just in time for drum and bugle corps from around the world to take the field Tuesday during the Drum Corps International quarterfinals. "It’s a huge crowd, and we’re still building," said Mike Pease, local event chairman for the DCI world championships. "We’re having a ball." Twenty-three groups, including Canada, Japan, […]
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