The season for the three competing corps is now over with the exception of BYBA Finals and it could not have been closer at the top, just .08% split, Northern Star and Distant Thunder.
In the run up to the DCE European Championships taking place in the Sparta Stadium this Saturday, a warm up will be held on the Friday evening. In the heart of Rotterdam, six drum & bugle corps will be performing their show programme to a Rotterdam audience from 19.00 onwards.
High Brass will be attending the DCE Finals at Sparta Stadium in Rotterdam, Holland. They will be bringing their merchandise stall to the market place once again where people will be able to listen to the band and buy CDs, t-shirts and other band memorabilia.
The DCE commercial will be shown tonight for the first time on the TV channel 'TV Rijnmond'. The 30-second commercial can be seen at around 17.25 during the commercial break between the news and sports. The commercial will be aired on the channel dozens of times this week. A QuickTime version can be downloaded from the DCE site.
Internal circumstances have led DIO Drum & Bugle Corps to withdraw from the DCE Championships. The programme for the DCE Prelims has therefore been altered slightly. It will now begin quarter of an hour later at 9.15 AM.
Just as in 2006, selection criteria will apply for the DCE European Championships 2007. A number of corps can be assured of a place next year based on the position they achieve this coming Saturday. Others can be considered for a 'wildcard'.
Audience measurement results provided by the network from the Sept. 5, Drum Corps International World Championship broadcast on ESPN2, show that more than 824,000 viewers tuned in for the two-hour broadcast.
As of Monday you can find them in Rotterdam: large advertising columns displaying posters of the DCE Championships. They'll remain up until Saturday 23rd September.
Presale of tickets for the DCE European Championships will end this Saturday, September 16th. Please order your tickets now if you want to be sure to have tickets for the Championships.
In the DCE Close Up series you will meet the DCE personnel. Who are these people behind the scenes who offer their leasure time to run drum corps events? In this episode we'll meet Erik Janssen.
Drum Corps Europe will broadcast a TV commercial to announce the DCE Championships 2006, to be held on September 23rd in Rotterdam. The commercial will be aired for one week on the regional television channel 'TV Rijnmond'.
Both Senators and 6th Hove Scouts will be performing, in exhibition, their 2006 shows at this year's British Drum Corps Championships. They will be performing during the half hour leading up to Open Class Finals - the confirmed Championships timetable gives you the exact times of their performances.
The Kidsgrove Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps have announced that they will not be attending the 2006 DCE Championships in Rotterdam this year. This is due to unforeseen financial difficulties that the corps has been put under over the last few weeks.
Two weeks before the start of the DCE European Championships in Rotterdam, the event will be announced on large advertising columns in the city. These columns stand at five busy locations in and around the city centre.
Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps from Gravesend has topped the DCUK Open Class in Grantham last Sunday. They scores 79.1. 37th Kingswood came in second with a score of 73.9. The Kidsgrove Scouts were not present in Grantham.
The Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps finished its 2006 competitive season where it began it â?? as undefeated world champions. The Buccaneers bested twenty-four other competing units at the 42nd annual Drum Corps Associates World Championships, held this weekend at Paetec Park in Rochester - New York.
There will be an addition to the activities planned during the DCE Championships weekend. In the evening of Friday, 22nd September you will be able to watch drum corps in Rotterdam with the extra event 'Drum Corps Rocks the Town'. This event is free of charge.
Wölper Löwen Drum & Bugle Corps from Neustadt am Rübenberghe has topped the Drum Corps Germany contest in Gevelsberg yesterday. The corps' show was rewarded with 74.80. The Starriders came in second with a score of 68.83.
Chris Gibbs, the 2006 Championships Director, and Jill Boyington, DCUK Administrator, spent a day at Burton Albion Football Club to meet with the management and confirm finals details for the forthcomning Championships event on 30th September.
Drum Corps International today announced attendance milestones for its 2006 Summer Music Games Tour. DCI sanctioned a total of 143 competitions in 39 states this past summer, taking place over a 58-day time-frame. Total combined attendance for all events is estimated at more than 375,000.
Corps that will be participating at the DCE European Championships, will be offered free warm up and rehearsal facilities. There are public rehearsal fields available at the Roel Langerakpark, at a few minutes walking distance of the Sparta Stadium.
Continuing the long-running series of top class DCUK shows presented by Concord, the 2006 version will have competition in Cadet Class, Class A and Open Class at Grantham Town FC on Saturday 3rd September starting at 1.50 PM.
Next year, Drum Corps France will run its first competition season. The contests will be held in Wattrelos (Lille) on February 24th, the second one in the heart of France: Tours, on March 10th.
Drum Corps Europe presents a new service for the DCE Championships. As soon as the scores of both the prelims and finals are announced, they will be texted to mobile phones via SMS, free! This is a limited time offer.
Drum Corps France, the organisation for drum corps and marching bands in France, has announced its first Individuals and Ensembles competition, to be held on Sunday 8th october 2006 in Beauvais (80 kilometers north-west of Paris.)
In line with DCUK's continuing commitment to have all archive videos transferred onto DVDs, the 1989 and 1990 Championships video will be for sale on DVDs from 4th September. DVDs may be purchased from DCUK's online shop.
Mayflower World guard has announced some exciting plans for the forthcoming 2007 season. These plans include a trip to Winter Guard International in Dayton.
Trumpeter Walter 'Maynard' Ferguson died on Wednesday at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura - California. He was 78. Ferguson's death was the result of kidney and liver failure brought on by an abdominal infection.
The centre section of the stand in the Sparta Stadium has been sold out for the DCE European Championships 2006. In other sections of the main stand there are still plenty of seats available.
Despite earlier reports, the US based Spectrum Winterguard from Tier - New York, will not be attending the European WGI Regional in London next year. Executive director Ben van Kurin of Spectrum announced this on the forums of Color Guard Planet.
MarkTimeHut is a new forum for UK drum corps to discuss the matters which are important to them. The forum will only allow registered users to post, in an effort to avoid problems caused by anonymous posts on the previous drum corps forums.
And the winner is... Ansgar Tasche from Bad Oldesloe. The German is one of ten people who will receive a free patch of the DCE Championships 2006. Ten patches have been raffled among those who have already ordered and paid for tickets by that date.
The new CD single of percussion group Dutch Drums, 'Fiesta del Ritmo', is aired on the national Dutch radio station 'Radio 2'. A videoclip of the song has been recorded as well. Dutch Drums is formed by five drummers with a rich drum corps history, having marched in corps like Avalance and Blue Wave.
As a part of the ongoing review and development of the group, Concord Drum & Bugle Corps has announced a range of projects that are in the planning stage for implementation beginning in the 2006/2007 winter period.
Drum Corps International will broadcast its World Championship television program on ESPN2 for the second year this September. The television event is the second prime-time broadcast of the program on commercial television, and will be available to more than 88 million households.
The members of Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps are back in Holland. The corps competed in the DCI competition for three weeks. Here is a photo impression with some highlights of the tour. Photos made by Taïs van Lyl, Hans Kloppert, Andries van de Ruit and Marcel van Zanten.
In the DCE Close Up series you will meet the DCE personnel. Who are these people behind the scenes who offer their leasure time to run drum corps events? In this episode we'll meet Pien Jong.
Drum Corps Europe is to add mobile communications to the 2006 European Drum Corps Championships. This year, a new service is being added through which the audience and participants will receive real-time scores through their mobile phones.
At the Burton Albion FC Pirelli Stadium and in association with Drummerbuzz/WFDUK, the official licensee for the UK and Parts of Europe to run WFD/Extreme Sport Drumming events, the chance to become a World Champion could only be 60 seconds away.
The time table for the DCE Championships 2006 (Rotterdam, September 23rd) has been published on the Drum Corps Europe website. The performances will start at 9.00 in the morning.
It was too close for comfort among the top three corps, but the Cavaliers won their seventh DCI title Saturday night in Madison by capturing the Jim Ott Best Brass Award, the Best Visual Award, and the Don Angelica Best General Effect Award. Phantom Regiment surprised Blue Devils in capturing its first Fred Sanford Best Percussion Award, but Blue Devils nailed down the George Zingali Best Color Guard Award.
By capturing the highest score in the World Championship Semifinals competition, The Cavaliers may have secured two out of three shows at the Drum Corps International Division I World Championships. But the mystery as to the final placements is anything but etched in stone.
After a busy time performing live and learning a lot of exciting new music, High Brass are now preparing for two major concerts in the north west of England later this year.
The Cavaliers have taken the first of three Division I shows at the DCI World Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, but two other corps appear to have not given up their right to lay claim to the big prize on Saturday night. Plus, all throughout the Quarterfinals lineup, there are a number of tight races heading into the rest of the week.
Like in previous years, an international judging panel will be present at this year's edition of the DCE European Championships in Rotterdam. Besides experienced judges from Europe, Drum Corps Europe has also invited DCI judges.