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 Adriaan de Kruiff.
The first day of the ticket sale for the DCE Championships 2006 has been very succesful. Already 200 tickets have been ordered in the DCE webshop. This is a record setting number for Drum Corps Europe.
For 2006 and beyond, the Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps hornline will use the AirMax Breather. The Breather is a device, intended to improve breathing for horn players, that offers different resistance levels in order to enlarge lung capacity and allow each performer to play better within the ensemble.
The admission tickets for the DCE European Championships in Rotterdam - The Netherlands are now available. Orders are taken 24 hours a day in our webshop.
As a result of the loss of performing members and staff, combined with the need to recruit and rebuild the corps, Forgemen from Sheffield will not take the competitive filed in either BYBA or DCUK this year.
Due to demand from its members, Distant Thunder have set up a members blog to record marching members experiences during the 2006 season. Hot on the heels of some DCI corps, they are the first UK corps to launch a public blog on their internet website.
Drum Corps Europe has activated a new domain name: drumcorpseurope.org. This will be the new starting point from where visitors of the DCE website can proceed to their own language (English, Dutch, German or French).
Details of the Glassmen's 'Entertrainment Clinic' are now available. The clinic will be held on the day of the East of England Invitational that will be held in Peterborough on July 2nd.
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 Jan Janssen.
Ticket sale for the DCE European Championships 2006 (September 23rd in Rotterdam - The Netherlands) will start next week, May 1st. Tickets will be available through the Drum Corps Europe website. Tickets will be available in the webshop.
Music City Mystique has topped the WGI Independent Marching World Class during the WGI World Championships in Dayton - Ohio. The ensemble scored 96.20 in Finals. The silver medal went to Rhythm X, they scored 95.75.
Marching bands, drum corps and jazz ensembles will come together for an evening of music at the second annual Southern Preview show to be held at Stratton Upper School in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - UK on the evening of Saturday 6th May.
Today DCE added a new service for registered members of the European drum corps community drumcorpstalk.com. Members can host their own photo albums on the Drumcorpstalk server free of charge. Each member will get up to 300 MB of web storage and 3 GB of monthly bandwidth.
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 Brian Matthijsse.
Allegiance Elite has decided not to participate in a DCI tour for 2006. With a new style of show, the corps will be doing a theatre-style show that will be performed indoors and out throughout Alberta.
The Troopers have been preliminarily approved to rejoin the ranks of DCI in full Division I competition for the 2007 competitive season. Final approval is expected later this year when the full DCI board meets to vote on the matter.
The board of directors of Drum Corps International met in Dayton, Ohio this weekend for a rare springtime business meeting that featured discussion and presentations on a comprehensive new governance structure for Drum Corps International.
Fantasia won its fourth WGI World Class title (and the fourth in consecutive alternating years) and James Logan HS won its ninth consecutive title at the WGI World Championships Saturday night in the University of Dayton Arena.
The info pages for the DCE Championships 2006 in Rotterdam have been published on the DCE website today. The information includes the line-up, corps repertoires and other corps details.
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 Kees Kopmels.
The 42nd Annual Drum Corps Associates World Championships will take place over Labor Day weekend in Rochester - New York. On the recently launched Championships website, tickets can be ordered with Visa or Mastercard.
The Glassmen have joined with the symphony to play the finale of the 1812 Overture, and after a few run-throughs of the piece - deciding exactly where the bass drum 'canons' would do the least damage to the audience members ears - they were set for two sold-out concerts on Friday and Saturday night, March 24th and 25th.
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Sheffield-based Concord Drum & Bugle Corps has announced that they have been invited by the Maltese Tourist Board to participate in their annual Historic Cites Festival during October 2006.
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 Hans Wansink.
The drum corps community drumcorpstalk.com has been moved to a new server. The move was succesful, and the new server is already active. Members of drumcorpstalk.com have to log in once again to be able to post messages.
Arrangements and briefings outlining the plans for the Senators during the summer of 2006 were finalised and communicated to the Senators Membership at a recent meeting. The corps will be particpating in DCUK and DCE, along with several other trips to mainland Europe.
The all new DGUK (Discussion Group United Kingdom) forums are pleased to announce the start of a new news item called 'Affrettando'. This news item will require the participation of the members of drum corps and Winter Guard in the UK and abroad.
This year, the DCE Championships will once again be held in the Sparta Rotterdam stadium. Both Drum Corps Europe and Sparta were happy with the way the event turned out in 2005 and have therefore decided to collaborate again.
The Italian Millennium Marching Band from Verdello will be transformed to a drum & bugle corps. Next October, Millenium will become the very first drum & bugle corps of Italy. This has been confirmed by Assistent Director Cristian Barbarino to Drum Corps Europe.
Southwest Union Drum & Bugle Corps and DIO Drum & Bugle Corps will enter the DCE Championships 2006. Due to internal situations, two corps had to cancel their registration. Southwest Union and DIO were on the waiting list, and they accepted the invitation from DCE to enter 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 Jochem Lenting.
Color Guard Nederland will broadcast its Championships online. The event is to be held next Saturday, March 25th. The broadcast will feature report updates all day and still images updated every 15 seconds. Scores will be posted as soon as possible after each performance.
The interactive part of the DCE website, drumcorpstalk.com, is about to change. The forums and blogs will remain as they are now, but visitors will notice several big and small changes. A new section for drumcorpstalk.com is in the works.
Innovative Percussion, Inc. has announced the launch of a brand new website. The look is familiar, and visitors of the website will find it much easier to navigate.
Undoubtedly one of the highlights of last year's DCUK Finals was the massed Class A drumlines leading on the Olympic Retreat. Concord and Phoenix are, this year, planning to go one better with joint performances by both their percussion and brass lines.
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 Laurens van Zwieten.
Drum Corps Associates, Inc., the organising body of all-age drum and bugle corps, has announced that it has entered into a sponsorship agreement with DCP Partners, LLC, owner of the internet site dedicated to the entire drum and bugle corps activity - drumcorpsplanet.com.
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 John Volk.
Muremo, the organiser of the European tour of The Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps, has asked Drum Corps United Kingdom to post a statement on their website regarding the UK event 'East of England Invitational'.
Stafford Lancers are holding their annual Winter Showcase this Sunday 12th March 2006 from 3.30pm at Sir Graham Balfour School, North Avenue, Stafford. All areas of the organisation will be performing, from the young Academy member's right through to the finale of a sneak preview of their 2006 Production 'War of the Worlds'.
It has been confirmed to DCUK that The Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps from Toledo, - Ohio, who were placed 11th at the 2005 DCI World Championships, will be visiting the UK on 2nd July on the last stage of their European tour.
Northern Star Group from Leeds has announced the launch of Star Academy. The internationally renowned performing arts organisation is launching Star Academy to give young people performing arts skills that will enable them to become world class performers themselves.
For the fifth time in a row, InCorps will organise the successful Mega Clinic in Europe. And this year it's all about the kids. On Saturday, June 24th, the Accent College Groen van Prinsterer in Vlaardingen (Nethrlands) will be the venue for the complete Mega Junior Clinic.
Total Percussion is a new UK-based service aimed at the drum corps and marching band percussionist. The company is the official UK dealer for Tapspace Publications - authors of works such as 'Virtual Drumline 2', 'Parking Lot Etudes', 'Simply Four', and 'Up Front'.