A one-off performance by a 'mega-corps' with percussionists and color guards. This is the project that show corps Harpe Davids hopes to get off the ground this year. The club is inviting percussionists and color guards from all over Europe to take part in this initiative.
In order to celebrate 100 years of scouting, the Kidsgrove Scouts 'Through the Year's Band' will lead the Centenary Parade to be held on Sunday 22nd April 2007. They are inviting members from all eras of the organisations history to take part in the parade.
Corps Style Concepts has recently revealed a new website. The Dutch collective of designers, clinicians and arrangers can now be reached at www.corpsstyleconcepts.org. The new website is the start of many new services on the internet. In a few months the website will be completed.
Millennium Drum & Bugle Corps from Verdello - Italy have announced their new show program. The title of the new show is '1492: Mundus Novus' ('New World'). The corps will take the audience to the year when Columbus discovered America.
Percussion fans were able to enjoy top percussion on Sunday during the Masters of Percussion event in Gent. The European Individuals & Ensembles for percussion, various master classes, an indoor percussion competition, a music academy student's final project, and Rhythm X in action: it could all be fitted in on one day.
The Blue Lions, the French team that was last involved in DCE during the Championships 2005, has undergone a radical change to its structure during the last ten months. With its 10 years of experience as a marching percussion unit, the board and members decided to embark on a new adventure by laying the foundations of a drum & bugle corps.
The second episode of DCI's 'Field Pass TV', produced last July, has been recognized with a bronze award at the 28th annual Telly Awards. Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as video and film productions.
The Color Guard Nederlands Championships, to be held this weekend in Eindhoven - The Netherlands, will again be covered live online. This is the fourth year CGN produces a live webcast.
Do you want to know which corps won the Barnum Festival on July 4th, 1964 in Bridgeport - Connecticut? The website Historical Drum Corps Publications knows the answer.
Users of the online society Second Life are now able to watch DCE drum corps videos. At the virtial clubhouse of KMNL, the video clips are shown on a big screen. KMNL is a project of korpsmuziek.nl, a Dutch website dedicated to marching music.
For 2007, the British Youth Band Association already has 41 units who have declared that they will compete in BYBA shows, of which 38 are full 'Platina Members'. It is anticipated that at least a further 5 units will join the BYBA circuit.
Commodores 2007 summer production is a unique visual design which will see the corps enhance its field productions of the past years. This year they have taken the route to challenge not only the members and staff alike but also the audience in their experience of the show.
The online community drumcorpstalk.com has been upgraded to the latest software version. The upgrade includes some handy features for visitors of the forums, blogs and gallery.
The British Youth Band Association will trial the DCE manual this summer. The first trial of the DCE system will take place at the Academy Brass Show on 14th July 2007 for the Division I and Associate Class, with a further second half of consideration under review at this time.
"Firstly, I would like to express thanks on behalf of Christine and I for the invitation from Pauline Ingram, Carl Harris and Dave Brown (and BYBA's Midlands Region) to attend the Midlands Musical Miscellany. We missed last year, and were pleased to be able to support the 2007 event, which didn't disappoint."
Towards the end of the 2006 season an attempt was made to try and organise a mass brass performance at DCUK Finals. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, this was not possible but a commitment was made to try again for 2007.
The website idrumcorps.com is a new online community that lets you meet your friends, meet their friends, and just make new friends all through drum corps that links all these people and idrumcorps.com together.
Registration for the Drum Corps Netherlands 2007 season has closed. 19 corps will enter the DCN competition this summer. The season includes three competition dates: May 19th (Voorburg), June 23rd (Dordrecht), and September 8th (DCN Finals, Dordrecht).
Winter Guard United Kingdom are pleased to announce Spintastic 2007. The event will take place on Saturday 28th April at Margaret Beaufort Middle School, High Street at Riseley - Bedfordshire .
As of now, Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps from Middelburg - The Netherlands has a new website. The previous website was in use for two years and the time for a new, tighter appearance has come.
Following the sudden death of their corps director, Robert Gillett, the Squires Drum & Bugle Corps from Crawley - West Sussex had no alternative but to close down. As a result they will sell their equipment. Gillett passed away last month at the age of 41.
During the DCUK Corps Directors College, DCUK Judges Coordinator Jason Oates reported that a high level of interest had been shown by nearly 20 judges and potential judges in attending forthcoming judges training. As an aside Jason also took the opportunity to meet and discuss further areas of cooperation with Tony Mackenzie-Jones, who was in attendance at the College representing the DCE judges Committee.
The DCUK management team has worked hard on its commitment to reduce the cost of membership and further explored avenues of incentivising participation. The proposals put forward by the management team really do seem to hit the spot during the Corps Directors College that was held last Saturday.
The inaugural DCUK Corps Directors College took place on Saturday the 3rd March 2007 in Walsall West Midlands. The College was well attended with representation by nine Drum and Bugle Corps along with a number of Judges, a delegation representing Drum Corps Europe and members of the WGUK and MPA-UK management teams.
Tez Smith will join the brass team during the BYBA Festival of Music that will take place in Brixham - Devon from 30th March to 6th April. He is currently studying for a PGCE in Secondary Music at Manchester Metropolitan University.
On Thursday March 1st, a massive and destructive tornado swept across the South od the US. One of the hardest hit communities was Enterprise - Alabama. Several members of the school band were killed, and many more have been injured. Capitol Sound decided to help the members of the Enterprise band program.
The Kiwanis Kavaliers offer a reward for information leading to the location and return of equipment stolen since February 17th from the Kiwanis Kavaliers equipment truck.
ESPN360 will enable drum corps fans to view the 2006 Drum Corps International World Championships online. The special trial period allows fans of the 2006 Drum Corps International World Championships to view both of the one-hour segments of the program on-demand.
"As a contest director, your job is to check that participating corps stick to the rules properly. If this is not the case, you are in a position to issue penalties. In the more than 10 years that I have held this position within various organisations, I have noticed that there are many misconceptions regarding penalties." By Kees Kopmels.
The European drum corps organisations are currently working towards using the same judging manual from 2007/08. In addition, a working party will be set up to investigate the possibilities to create uniformity in the rules and regulations of all competitions, and to create a European Committee of Judges.
After bringing live streaming video of Drum Corps International major events to drum corps fans during the 2006 summer season, DCI teams up this spring to bring the WGI World Championships to fans on the Web.
Southern Aurora's Winter Drumline will open their indoor percussion season this weekend, performing at the Chippenham Winter Guard show. This is Aurora's first season of indoor percussion, a completely new and exciting venture for the drumline.
Due to the rising costs of airfare, the Hawthorne Caballeros have cancelled the 2007 plans to tour Europe. Hopefully, the economical situation may be more favorable if the opportunity becomes available in the future.
The summer of 2007 will see The Senators explore the drama and emotion of something as simple as a set of playing cards. 'Shuffle Up and Deal' is a rhythmic, high octane production that is as addictive as the game it describes.
In 2007 the reigning CGN IPC Champion will perform a show entitled 'WIRED'. The show is a fast moving exploration of rhythmic moods and feels. The show has been designed by Tim Fairbanks and Mark Reynolds and arranged by Andrew Markworth and features original music.
The Kidsgrove Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps have announced their 2007 summer production: 'Once Upon a Time Out West'. Selections of music will be taken from the composers Aaron Copland, Paul Hart, Alan Silvestri, Jerome Moross en Brian Banks.
It has taken a long time, but Drum Corps Netherlands have announced the location of the first contest of 2007. The first DCN contest will take place on 19th May in Voorburg, near The Hague.
DIO Drum & Bugle Corps from Dordrecht - The Netherlands have decided to go inactive after calling a member meeting. In spite of the valiant efforts in previous years, new and old members have not succeeded in keeping their heads above water.
After two years of planning and negotiation, a qualification in 'Youth Marching Band Leadership' will be launched at the BYBA Festival of Fun and Music. With the support of its member organisations, the Federation has been working on this for more than two years. It is to be accredited by the long established national Open College Network (OCN) and is a major aspect of the activity's development strategy.
Northern Star Drum & bugle Corps has announced the addition of Clay Wachholz to their teaching staff. Clay will be joining the corps as a consultant to the brass team and will be visiting the corps at three camps over the course of the year, starting with February's camp this coming weekend.
Bristol, UK was the venue for an extremely well attended seminar that covered the entire process of the Drum Corps Europe Competition Manual, concentrating on the responsibilities of the judging system, the philosophies of its application, and the physical system itself were presented by a very capable DCE judging administration and training team, lead by Adriaan De Kruiff and Tony MacKenzie-Jones.
The world renowned brass clinician Clay Wachholz will be working with the One Big Brass Class throughout the BYBA Festival of Fun and Music. He will also be providing a brass clinic for all wind players that attend the event. The festival will take place from March 30th - April 6th.
For the first time, Drum Corps Europe will be holding a major judges seminar in the UK. This coming weekend, several British judges will be travelling to Bristol to take part in a seminar organised by DCE. Besides other topics, the DCE Competition Manual will also be dealt with in detail.
6th Hove and Premier Percussion are presenting a free one-off clinic performance featuring world-famous snare drummer Jim Kilpatrick at the 2007 BYBA Festival of Fun and Music.
On April 1st, 2007 InCorps will organise the second edition of the Masters of Percussion. A day packed with masterclasses, the European individuals & ensembles for percussion, and Europe's biggest indoor percussion event. Jeff Queen has been added to the list of master clinicians for the event.