The British Youth Band Association has announced that it's Festival of Fun and Music, which is now celebrating its amazing 25th year, looks set to be an extremely well attended affair again for 2007.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Jeff Queen DVD. Drum corps fans who sent in films for the Cinema section before 1st February had the chance of winning a DVD of the four-time world snare drumming champion, Jeff Queen. We received many films.

DCUK are pleased to confirm the date of the first Drum Corps United Kingdom Corps Directors College for 2007. The groundbreaking meeting will be held on Saturday 3rd March 2007 in Walsall - West Midlands.

For the first time, corps from outside Italy will be welcome at the Italian show championship. The Italian organisation 'Italia Marching Show Bands' hopes this will attract more corps that will provide additional extravaganza during the championship.

This year, the DCE European Championships will once again be held in the Sparta Rotterdam Stadium. This week, Drum Corps Europe and Sparta completed the final details of the agreement.

The DCE Competition Manual 6.2 can now be found on the website. There are no changes to the previous manual (version 6.1) with regard to the contest rules. However, two changes have been made to the judges section. These changes were determined during the DCE Judges Committee meeting held the day after the DCE European Championships 2006 in Rotterdam.

Concord Drum & Bugle Corps are proud to announce a new endorsee partnership with Hardcase International Ltd â?? suppliers of top quality cases for musical instruments.

Here are the voting results of all the rules considered at the DCI rules congress in Atlanta. Three proposals were defeated in caucus sessions on Saturday and therefore did not proceed for evaluation by the DCI Board of Directors on Sunday morning. The DCI Board of Directors voted on six proposals Sunday morning.

The executive board of the Kiwanis Kavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps has decided that the corps is to remain inactive for the 2007 season. The administration will utilize the coming months to plan and prepare.

Drum Corps International's 'Power of One' winter meetings and workshops are underway in Atlanta, Georgia - with a record attendance of over 360 on-hand. The meetings are a combined event for corps directors and instructors, DCI staff and judges, and the various tour event partners.

Drum Corps United Kingdom officially announce that ason Oates has been appointed as the new DCUK judges administrator. Jason is renowned as a long time supporter of the drum corps activity and brings with him to the role many years of experience as both a judge and an administrator.

Showband USA from Hellemmes â?? France has launched a cadet corps. The new corps started at January 3rd with eight members between 6 and 15 years old.

The next two UK units announced to appear at The Masters of Percussion on Sunday 1st April are the Senators from Eastleigh - Hampshire and the Winter Drumline of Southern Aurora from Brighton - East Sussex, who will be joining Rhythm X from the USA along with other units from the Netherlands, UK and Belgium to provide a showcase of percussion talent.

The Cavaliers have decided to forgo their planned June, 2007 competitive tour to Europe and will remain in the United States, beginning their summer competitive schedule on Saturday June 16th, in Annapolis.

Last Monday the videoclips from the DCE European Championships 2006 were published on the media page of the DCE website. Four days after the clips were added, Drum Corps Europe reports almost 6,000 dowloads from the server.

The next UK unit announced to appear at Percussion Live on Saturday 24th March are the Senators from Eastleigh - Hampshire who will be joining Rhythm X from the USA along with other units from the UK and Belgium to provide a showcase of percussion talent.

Nearly two dozen drum corps were represented at the biennial Rules Congress, held January 13th-14th in Newark - New Jersey. One of the decisions made during the congress was the introduction of a minimum size for corps that want to compete in the Drum Corps Associates competition.

On New Years Eve, Midsomer Norton Marching Brass achieved its 25th anniversary. To celebrate the 25th anniversary, the band has a reunion party arranged for Friday January 26th at Prattens Social club. The President of the British Youth Band Association (BYBA), Mr Bob Girvan, will attend to hand out attendance certificates to present members.

As from today, the video clips of the DCE Championships 2006 will be available for downloading from the media page of this website. A brief fragment of a few minutes can be seen for all 24 performances.

This years creative team are bringing you 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Music Arrangements are by Jay Howard (brass and front ensemble), Adam Lowes (drums) with visual designs by David Milton (visual design) and Jenna Riley (choreography).

Richard Gubby has secured his place as part of the Cavaliers color guard for the 2007 season. He was invited back after his first audition and was successful in his performance throughout the weekend.

Draft details of the exciting South Coast Tour, 'On the Road Again' are now available. Any band or corps wishing to take part in this amazing adventure and an experience not to be missed should send all enquiries to event organiser Bob Girvan.

Drum Corps Europe is currently working on video clips of the DCE Championships 2006. The clips, of all the Championship participants, will soon be available on the DCE website.

Concord Drum & Bugle Corps has now confirmed their 2007 summer contest season entries. They remain fully committed to DCUK and will be appearing at all three regional shows and DCUK Finals. The corps will compete in the National Open Class. To complete their summer contesting schedule, Concord will be applying to enter two BYBA contests â?? at Batley and Stafford. They will apply to compete in BYBA Division 1.

The British Youth Band Association continues to support Destination Events/London Parade New Year Day Parade. This year was Roy Powell's sixth attendance as a judge plus this year Paul Cartwright was also honored to be invited to join the international judging panel to cover the bands and corps on the parade and the concerts.

Once again, 2006 brought with it an increase in the number of visitors to the DCE website. The internet site of Drum Corps Europe, including the forums of drumcorpstalk.com, was visited almost 375,000 times.

Raising corps membership limits and allowing use of electronic instruments, among seven other proposals up for discussion at January DCI board meeting. Submissions have come from George Hopkins (The Cadets), Jeff Fiedler (The Cavaliers), David Gibbs (Blue Devils), and George Oliviero (DCI judge administration).

The first two UK units have now been announced for the Percussion Live indoor percussion event being held on 24th March 2007 and featuring, from the USA, Rhythm X.

Stuart Hancock has secured a place on the Madison snare line for the 2007 season. He was invited back after his first audition and was successful in his performance throughout the weekend where the whole line was set.

Drum Corps Germany welcomes the Flying Drums of Hannover as a new member. The Flying Drums participated in 2006, after restructuring, in the indoor contest in Witzenhausen.

Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased and proud to advise that one of their ice Presidents, John Boyington, has been awarded a CBE in the 2007 Queen's New Years Honours List.

In 2006 we saw the Glassmen coming to Europe, the first season of Drum Corps Netherlands, major changes in the UK, and the most exciting run for the European drum corps title so far. We listed some highlights of the year in this article.

It has taken a week longer than scheduled, but delivery of the DVDs and CDs of the DCE European Championships 2006 will begin next week. The final details of the production are now being completed.

All European organisations active in the drum corps activity have asked Rob van Koningshoven to consider a name change of his organisation DCEE (Drum Corps Events Europe). The European allies are worried that the name could cause confusion inside and outside Europe.

The Yokohama Inspires topped the Drum Corps Japan contest that took place last Saturday in Soka University's Main Gymnasium in Hachioji. The Yokohama Scouts came in second.

Trinity High School in Nottingham was the venue for the first ever marching boot camp, an event designed to promote and encourage the principals of marching movement. 36 marching members and staff took part in the pilot event on December 2nd.

Drum Corps Planet publisher John Donovan has announced a new website dedicated to the fantasy drum corps activity. The new site will be the home of Drum Corps Planet International (DCPI) - a 'Fantasy Drum and Bugle Corps circuit' which is comprised of member 'corps' that 'compete' against one another - using current-season or historic DCI corps statistics as the basis for their scoring system.

Drum Corps Europe is launching a special offer in collaboration with Hudson Music. Anyone who submits a link to a new video clip on the Internet between now and 31st January has the chance of winning one of five DVDs entitled 'Jeff Queen Playing With Sticks'.

The Drum Corps Netherlands Championships will be held in the FC Dordrecht stadium the next three years. DCN chairman Kees Bourquin and FC Dordrecht president Ad Heijsman signed a multi-year contract last Friday during a press conference at the stadium.

The 37th Kingswood Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps are pleased to announce their return to the British Youth Bands Association circuit as their main competing activity for 2007. As part of the corps development plans in 2006, they have been planning to return to BYBA for the 2007 season.

The Blue Barons, 1985 DCUK Champions, are hosting a reunion for all its past members from its inception in 1979 until its folding in 1987. The venue is the Langside Halls.

Drum Corps Europe is delighted with the list of participants for the DCE Championships 2007. "Next year, the event will have an even greater European influence", says Chairman Marcel Matthijsse. "Not only will an additional country be represented thanks to Millennium, but the overall group of participants is also becoming increasingly mixed."

Drum Corps Europe has announced the list of participants for the DCE Championships 2007. Many well-known top corps have once again signed up to compete for the European title, whilst a few interesting new participants will also be performing. This coming year will see drum corps competing from the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Italy.

The British Youth Band Association (BYBA) and Marching & Performing Arts United Kingdom (MPA-UK), representing both DCUK and WGUK, have announced a strategic partnership to ensure, following the successful Europe wide talks that have taken place, they are able to provide a coherent and structured focus for the UK activity.

Showband USA is pleased to announce their 2007 concert program, 'Farscape'. The program, arranged by Isabelle Eggermont, Pierre Lignée, Benoit Sueur and Jérôme Capoen, is comprised of three diverse movements with a rock feel: 'Svengali', 'Wild Dance' and 'Duel of the Fates'.