The Tallaght Youth Band were asked to help promote a single by taking part in a video futuring well knows Irish artists. The video clip can now be watched online and the song is available on iTunes.

Eight percussion units will be participating in the European WGI Regional for percussion, which will be held this Saturday in Almere. The Independent Marching Open Class is the biggest class with five groups.

Following a successful season in 2012, the current Irish Champions, TYB Marching Vikings have announced their 2013 programme 'Nocturnal Metropolist'. The Marching Vikings are the specialist marching wing of Dublin-based Tallaght Youth Band.

The Dagenham Crusaders Alumni will perform at the CGN Championships in Almere. The former members of the famous UK drum & bugle corps will be traveling to the Netherlands especially for this event.

Marching Music France, the national French marching music organisation, has announced the registration period for the 3rd edition of its national contest certified by Drum Corps Europe. This contest will take place on 17th August in Quiberon.

Last Thursday evening saw the official launch of Reactiv Media's Sponsorship of The Company Performance Ensemble, which took place after Halifax RLFC victorious match over Sheffield Eagles at 'The Shay'.

Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps from Bad Münder are celebrating their 30 year anniversary this year. In June, the successful German corps will celebrate with a big party in Bad Münder.

The popularity of Drum Corps Europe on social media is still growing considerably. More than 2,500 fans now follow DCE news updates on Twitter.

Show & Marching Band DAP from Apeldoorn, which is celebrating its 80 year anniversary today, will be participating in the competition of Drum Corps Netherlands in its anniversary year. That means a comeback to the drum corps competition after years of absence.

Jordan Murray from The Company will fulfill his lifelong dream at the age of 16. He has left for Columbus - Ohio to take up a vibraphone spot in the frontline of two-time WGI Independent World Percussion Champions, Rhythm X.

As in previous years, a number of drum corps fans who ordered the DCE Championships DVD complimented the quality of the 3-camera recording this year. One of the responses was that the DVDs DCE has produced of the 2012 Championships are "the best ones yet".

'Sounds of New York' is the title of Kadoudal Drum & Bugle Corps' first Premier Class show. The programme will revisit some famous standards about New York such as 'New York New York' by Frank Sinatra and 'Times Square' by Leonard Bernstein.

Shayne O'Brien will be representing Ireland in DCI this year as a member of The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps. Shayne, from Clonmel - Ireland, is a member of Banna Chluain Meala, of which the 11-time Irish champions Clonmel Bluehawks are the marching division.

The online team of Drum Corps Europe has expanded. Mark Gjaltema will be reporting for DCE on German drum corps affairs. This will be done in a multimedia way.

Drum Corps Associates has published the list of dates and locations for the upcoming summer season. The schedule includes 21 contests. The schedule is still subject to change.

The Belgian Tijl van der Meulen will march with the American Matrix this winter. He will be keeping us up to date of his experiences across the ocean on the website of Indoor Percussion Europe.

Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps will travel to Italy again in July. The Dutch corps will give various performances in the space of a week in Cogollo del Cengio and Verdello, home of Millennium.

Drum Corps Europe is moving to Amsterdam. That is, the server running the website and the Document Manager will soon be located in the Dutch capital. The speed of the website will therefore increase considerably for European users.

Nicola Esposito, Drill Designer and Visual Caption Head of the Italian drum & bugle corps Mosson will be part of the Visual Staff of the Colt Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps this summer. He will leave to the USA on 31st May.

The first indoor percussion show of Beatrix from Hilversum will be called 'Da Vinci's Secrets - a visit at the Museum'. The audience is taken on a virtual journey to Paris.

Nexus Drum & Bugle Corps has announced their 2013 show called 'The Summer of Love'. The corps goes back to the sixties.

The No Limit Street Band, made up of current and former members of the Black Knights, will be performing at the London Palladium as part of the Britain's Got Talent auditions on Sunday 20th January.

The DVDs of the DCE European Championships 2012 are ready. The preordered DVDs are now being sent out. As ever, the DVD has become a great tangible memento of the event. You can order your DVD in the webshop.

Every month, we will be giving you an overview of the most watched drum corps news of the past month. Here is the list of the most popular news items from December 2012, including the Corps Page Top 5.

Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps from Toledo will not be in the DCI competition this year. Due to financial problems, a corps can't be fielded in 2013.

'The Deadly Game' is the name of the new show by Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps from Dordrecht about a murder case. "This is the first time that Jubal is acting out a true story in a show", says programme coordinator Ruben Lourens.

The redesigned and updated site for Drum Corps World has been completed. Nearly all of the content from the previous site (articles, scores and historical products) has been transferred and a portion of the photos from earlier in this decade.

What happened in 2011? Year in Review 2011 highlights the top stories from the DCE news page, grouped per month. Drum Corps Europe wishes everyone a great 2012!

The DVDs of the DCE European Championships 2012 are almost ready. Shipping of the first batch is scheduled for the first weekend of January.

Fabian Lippmann, a member of the German Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps, will march the Crossmen next year. Nicola Esposito, as organiser of the Crossmen European Alumni group, interviewed Lippman.

A new item will be introduced on the DCE website shortly. Each month a top 5 list of most viewed news articles will be published.

Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps from Boston - Massachusetts, will march in the official inauguration parade of President Obama on 21st January. Boston has participated in this parade before, but that was when President Johnson took office.

Beatrix Drum & Bugle Corps has a new drill designer. Craig Sherratt will design the new show. "The top of Europe is becoming stronger and if you want to keep competing, you have to change arrangers and designers every now and then", the corps from Hilversum - The Netherlands announced.

Black Knights 2013 programme is entitled 'Yesterday's Today'. The corps from Gravesend will explore and appreciate yester years creations by the World's most inquisitive and forward thinking mind's of their times. These ahead of their time inventions continue to be developed and enhanced to suit present day's fast paced and ever changing lifestyles.

Registrations for the 2013 Drum Corps United Kingdom season are now open. The process matches that put in place for the past three seasons.

Drum Corps Europe has teamed up with the Rasteder Musiktage. During the famous multi-day music and show event, the participants of the show contest will be judged according to the DCE Competition Manual.

The DCE European Championships 2013 (Saturday 28th September) can expect another wonderful line-up. The event once again has participants from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France and Italy.

The 2013 edition of The Company Performance Ensemble from Notthingham will join forces with the King of the jungle to explore the events and emotions of the animal kingdom. From the crawling ant to the majestic elephant, the group are excited to announce their 2013 production 'The Circle of Life'.

Drum Corps United Kingdom will kick off their 2013 competitive season on the same day and in the same venue as the British Youth Band Association. The events will be run separately.

On Sunday, Drum Corps Europe assigned wild cards for the DCE European Championships, and all corps applying for a wildcard have been informed. The complete list of participants will be announced on Friday.

Next year's German Open will be held on Saturday 7th September, it's been announced by the organisation. The Weserbergland Stadium in Hameln will once again be the setting for the German Open drum corps championships.

The 2013 show by Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps is a tribute to Leonardi da Vinci. In “Leonardo's Legacy”, Juliana takes the audience through Da Vinci's chaotic way of thinking and creating, through his discoveries and successes and to his dreams of the future to ultimately arrive at the huge legacy that he left behind.

The 'tour' that was recently undertaken by DCE representatives â??â??to meetings of partner organisations and corps was very successful. DCE board members attended meetings in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The registration period for the DCE European Championships 2013 is now closed. Many have expressed an interest in the event, with more registrations than places available.

As the efforts revolving around the merger of Beatrix and Jong Beatrix have come to an end, the focus is now on the further development of the quality of both corps, says Chairman Gerard Eijlers on the website of the Beatrix Corps Association.