Beatrix has prolonged its CGN World Class title. Last Saturday, the guard won the top class of Color Guard Nederland with a good five point margin after an unbeaten season.
Jubal Indoor Percussion has pocketed its first CGN title. Saturday, the unit from Dordrecht won the Marching Open Class at the Indoor Percussion Finals in Eindhoven.
Drum Corps Associates has opened their own webshop. Limited quantities of DCA collectibles are available, including stuff with the legacy DCA logo.
Rob Jones, a former member of Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps from Gravesend, is a member of the British rock band Missing Andy. A new album was released recently.
Indoor Percussion Europe is offering fans the opportunity to come and watch the rehearsals of Matrix Indoor Percussion Ensemble for 15 euros per person. This includes a ticked for the IPE European Championships. The organisation is also introducing group discounts on the European Championships ticket prices.
Millennium Drum & Bugle Corps has a special tour on the agenda this year. In September, the Italian corps will travel to China to perform at a big five-day festival.
Fourteen drummers have registered for the European Individuals & Ensembles of Indoor Percussion Europe on Sunday 8th April. That is more than double the number that entered last year. The registration period is over.
The winter guard of Beatrix from Hilversum will go to the CGN Championships as the top unit in the World Class. The guard remained undefeated in the World Class throughout the season and seems to be the frontrunner for the championships.
Only two weeks to go before the 33rd British Winterguard Championships and Winter Guard United Kingdom has advised that 60 percent of the available seats in the mainstand have now been sold.
Nexus Drum & Bugle Corps from Sandy in Bedfordshire will be making their first trip to mainland Europe in 2012 to compete in the Drum Corps Netherlands contest in Huizen - The Netherlands on Saturday 23rd June.
For the past month, most bands have been back to outdoor practice, concert playing is put aside and drum carriages, marching folios and forward facing instruments dusted off in preparation for St Patrick's Day parades this Saturday.
Fans of the once so famous Future Corps can now indulge themselves at the Dutch website Drumcorps in Progress. The site has published a compilation video lasting over half an hour.
The TYB Marching Vikings have announced their 2012 programme 'Lost'. The Marching Vikings are the marching wing of Dublin based Tallaght Youth Band. The show explores the feelings of fear and loneliness associated with being lost, and also the escape to familiar ground.
Drum Corps International, along with 15 other Indianapolis arts and cultural organizations, will share in $1.2 million in special cultural project grants awarded by LDI, Ltd. in celebration of LDI's 100th anniversary. Announcement of the awards was made earlier today during a special presentation.
Drum Corps World has published the worldwide drum corps competition schedule for this summer. The list contains almost 200 contests from the US to Asia and from Africa to Europe.
The Sixth has announced the 2012 production entitled 'Can You See What I See?'. The 2012 design team were working hard to bring a production that will entertain the crowd and make you see The Sixth in a new light.
The Drum Corps Netherlands competition season will start in two months. The organisation has announced the participants. In total, eighteen corps will appear at the starting line this year, including several from Germany.
The Company from Barnsley - UK has launched a new website. After a long time without a full internet presence, a lot of effort has gone into creating the new site as well as updating our YouTube content, so that they can market themselves as a performance group.
The number of DCE Twitter followers increased after Drum Corps Europe announced that followers could win free European Championships tickets. Followers can win free tickets to this year's DCE European Championships in Kerkrade. At the end of April we will give away 5 x 2 tickets.
25 units converged on Fenton Manor Sports Centre in Stoke On Trent for the UK Midlands Regional on Saturday 25th February. The class winners today were Anchormen Cadets in the Cadet Class, Southern Knights in the Junior Class, Southern Knights in the A and Northern Academy in Open Class.
Corps can now register for the German Open 2012. The event will take place on Saturday the 15th of September 2012, once again in the Weserbergland stadium in Hamelin.
The Small Drum Corps Association (SDCA) has planned more than 20 contests for this summer in different parts of the United States. The association of small corps is still expanding.
The American all-age organisation Drum Corps Associates has published a sneak preview of the contest schedule for this summer. This year, the DCA competitive season features twenty contests.
The American drum corps forum Drum Corps Planet is ten years old. The website has become the largest drum corps forum in the world, and it's still growing.
Mullingar Town Band have made their band lotto available online. Many football clubs and bands in Ireland use a lottery system as a means of paying membership fees and boosting band income.
If you've ever performed, judged, volunteered or have been a part of the drum corps experience in any way, Drum Corps International invites you to join us in Indianapolis this August for the big party that's been 40 years in the making.
The dates and locations of all contests in the European Music Games have been announced. The coming season will see fifteen contests in five countries. The season will start in Middelburg in May.
Beatrix Drum & Bugle Corps will start their first European tour this summer. Among other things, the corps from Hilversum is participating in the DCE certified show in the French town of Quiberon.
Due to the low number of entrants into the Indoor Percussion Europe /Winterguard United Kingdom indoor percussion event on Sunday 18th March in Burgess Hill - West Sussex, it has been decided to cancel the event. The normal WGUK winter guard contest taking place on the same day will continue as normal with 21 guards in competition.
The drum line of Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps from Middelburg will be letting loose in the night of the 24th to the 25th of February, and will attempt to keep playing the drums all night long in order to raise money for the club.
Drum Corps Europe is working on setting up a 'DCE Corps Network'. With this network, DCE wants to modernise and improve its way of communicating with corps.
European X is not exclusively 'European' this year. One of the members of the Dutch indoor drum line is de American David Oriente, a member of the top drum line Rhythm X.
Unik Star Percussion Ensemble from Hellemmes - France has announced their 2012 production 'Prism'. The musical programme has been composed by Tony Nunez and Kevin Shah (working at the Arcadia High School and South Hill High School in the US).
Drum Corps Europe has a new Licensed Partner in Asia. The organisation of the Grand Prix Marching Band Championships has signed an agreement with DCE. That means that the competition in Indonesia is now also held under the umbrella of the DCE Competition Manual.
Over ten years, the DCE website has grown into an important European source of news for drum corps fans. What follows is a discussion with Editor Marco Janssen about the success and growth of the DCE news site.
Drum Corps Europe has posted its 10,000th news story on the website. The news page was launched in June 2002 and quickly grew into the largest drum corps news site in Europe.
With an ever-changing landscape of school district schedules and policies to navigate, Drum Corps International Housing Manager Jeff Cox took the opportunity at the 2012 DCI Annual Business Meetings and Conference Weekend to discuss some of the challenges he faces finding housing sites for drum corps on their annual summer tour.
Not following the latest drum corps news yet? Then get on Twitter now and start following DCE! At the end of April we will give 5 followers 2 free tickets each for the best section (section A) at the DCE European Championships!
Nadia Graziani (22) from the Italian drum & bugle corps Mosson will join the Empire Statesmen from Rochester - New York next summer. She will be competing in the competition of Drum Corps Associates, including the DCA Championships.
Since the start of the free online editions of Drum Corps World, the number of subscribers of the magazine has quadrupled. Early last year, Drum Corps World stopped its printed version of the magazine and continued online.
Preparations for the 2012 season are well underway for the Kidsgrove Scouts. Rehearsals are going very well and everyone is very excited about returning to the USA to compete in the DCA World Championships. As part of the preparations and plans, numbers will be finalized at the end of the month.
Phantom Regiment is the favourite with the drum corps fans when it comes to downloads. The powerhouse from Rockford, Illinois, is the undisputed leader, both in audio and video downloads. This was announced by Drum Corps International.
Judging from the reactions that Drum Corps Europe has received, the DVD of the 2011 DCE European Championships is proving to be very popular. Drum corps fans have responded positively to the image and sound quality.
The latest issue of Drum Corps World has filled quite a few editorial columns with European drum corps and percussion news. The cover of the online magazine features European pictures.
At the start of the new year, the editors of Drumcorps.org.uk interviewed the Chairman of Drum Corps Europe, Marcel Matthijsse. He talks about the opportunities, challenges and resolutions Drum Corps Europe will face in 2012.