Forty-five students from Illinois, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee and Wisconsin joined an all-star staff for the 2010 GearWORKS: Summer Drum Days in Naperville, Ill. on July 9-10, 2010. Camp Director Joe Roach said the goals were simply to "give each student specific instruction in technique with a tailored approach to individual skill levels." We wanted to […]
Drum Corps International (DCI) kicks off their national tour at Ratliff Stadium on Tuesday night. NewsWest 9 followed one of the competing corps, the day before competition. It will be a night of many firsts. Not only is Thunder in the Desert coming back to Odessa, but also, a brand new corps is making it’s […]
This weekend we will be staying at the Boys Club. Saturday’s rehearsal will be in Lawrence, MA at the show site. Sunday a free day. No rehearsal or performances. Members are responsible for travel to and from Lawrence, MA. We will not take busses! Please make arrangements to carpool to the school & stadium. Cars […]
It was the perfect stadium and the perfect crowd, but the pursuit of perfection on the field ended early Saturday in Minneapolis after the perfect storm rolled in. Dan Potter was with corps members as tornado sirens sounded nearby TCF Bank Stadium, taking listeners backstage with him in today’s Field Pass presented by Zildjian. Have […]
At 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning (July 20), 135 bedraggled musicians from the Santa Clara Vanguard will file off tour buses, spend the next half-hour dragging backpacks inside the Van Buren High School gym, and then drop onto the air mattresses they carry with them throughout the summer. Within five hours, the same group will […]
Dustin Shahidehpour may be a rookie, but the marimba-playing Chicago native has been a Phantom Regiment fan since his early teens. He’s known for quite some time he was destined to be a part of a group like this. His first year is going fast, with the group constantly on the go from June to […]
Torrential rain, thunderstorms, and a near-tornado swept through TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis Saturday, July 17, putting an early end to what otherwise would have been one of the largest drum corps events to take place in the upper Midwest in recent years. Before the start of the event, however, the skies were sunny, and […]
The Phantom Regiment Alumni Association is pleased to announce that its 2010 inductee to the Phantom Regiment Heritage Plaque is current Regiment Board President, Tim Farrell. Tim has had a long involvement with the Phantom Regiment organization, dating back to October 1971 when he joined the brass section of the corps as a baritone player. […]
There’s no place like home. That’s how the La Crosse Blue Stars felt Friday with their first home show in three years in La Crosse. Percussionists Peter Cary and Thomas Benko last performed in La Crosse at a River City Rhapsody competition in 2007. The Blue Stars couldn’t have a home show in 2008 and […]
Which 1979 classic had corps members singing about Rice Krispies? Where are the top DCI shows this week? Who won last week’s Time Capsule contest? Dan Potter answers all these questions and more in the Friday Fun-n-Games edition of the Field Pass presented by Zildjian. Have a Field Pass question, comment or request? Leave a […]
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