The Starriders have won the DCE contest during the Rasteder Musiktage on Saturday. The corps from Bad Münder stayed ahead of Spirit of 52 by 1.2 points with their show 'About Time'.
For the first time anywhere, 'The 2016 SoundSport Virtual Preview' and 'The 2016 SoundSport Virtual World Championships' make it possible for teams around the world to participate in SoundSport performances through online video submissions.
The first contest of the 2016 IMSB season took place on Saturday 18th of June in Caronno Pertusella (Italy). In front of almost 800 people, four groups performed their shows in a beautiful and festive atmosphere. The contest was also the occasion to celebrate the 120th birthday of the Academy Parade Band that hosted the event.
Six World Class corps escaped the Indianapolis summer heat under the roof of Lucas Oil Stadium on Thursday night, as the DCI Tour Premiere presented by French Lick Resort kicked off the 2016 Drum Corps International Tour.
The IMBA competition scheduled for Clonmel on the 21st August has been moved to the Downs GAA Club Mullingar. This decision follows the Clonmel BlueHawks' decision to withdraw from all competition in 2016.
The Company has started the 2016 Drum Corps United Kingdom season with a win. On Sunday, the corps received a score of 69.30 at the first DCUK show of the year in Barnsley.
Unity, better known by its former name Mosson Secutores, has announced its show theme for this year. The programme is called 'Again', for several reasons.
The director of the Japanese instrument brand Tama Drums, Ken Hoshino, will be opening the new training field for Juliana from Middelburg next week. Juliana is moving to the new location because the old location has to make way for houses.
Spirit of 52 has found a partner in Vic Firth. Starting this season, the complete percussion of the corps will be playing with drumsticks from the manufacturer.
The two Italian groups of the Mosson Secutores project will appear under the new name 'Unity' at the DCE European Championships this year. The Drum Corps Europe board has approved the name change in the list of participants.
Just a handful of tickets left and then Block B will be sold out for the DCE Championships. All business seats (Blocks A and B) will be completely sold out.
Drum Corps Europe has chosen Facebook as the new communication tool with corps. Until now, they used a platform called Yammer, but that is becoming increasingly unsuitable, leading to a need for change.
Both the Rasteder Musiktage and the German Open in Hameln can count on a new participant on the field this year: Phoenix Performance Ensemble will participate in both events.
Double success for Jubal at the first DCN show in Roosendaal. Both Jubal and Jong Jubal managed to top the Premier Class and the Junior Class respectively on Saturday.
The start of the European Music Games, this Saturday in Roosendaal, will be broadcast live on Facebook. Anyone who likes the official Facebook page of Drum Corps Europe can watch parts of the event while they happen.
The 15th DCE Judges college 2016 took place in Newcastle under Lyme, UK, on 14th and 15th May. College is an intensive program over two days, a full day session on the Saturday, with a half day Sunday morning, allowing Judges time to travel home in the afternoon.
Just a few days left before the European Music Games 2016 kick off in Roosendaal - The Netherlands. Drum corps fans can start preparing for another Summer season in five European countries.
After an absence of 21 years, the IMG SoundSport Glasgow show brought the competitive Marching Arts back to Scotland with a bang. The Bellahouston Sports Centre provided an excellent venue, which ironically had also hosted the first Scottish Drum Corps Show in 1982.
Beatrix Drum & Bugle Corps from Hilversum has a new board. The newly appointed management has stated that it wants to expand the corps and put it back on the map.
On Saturday 21st May at the Bellahouston Sports Centre the sights and sounds of bands, will be a trip down memory lane for those that attended the Scottish Marching Band Championships there in the very early 1980’s. Here is a list of the performers.
Last year, it took a month before the Super Seats were sold out for the DCE Championships. This time, nearly all of the luxury seats in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium have been reserved in no-time.
As the first season of the Indoor Music Games draws to a close, the Blue Barons Mini Corps invite fans to attend the last contest of 2016. It will take place at a special venue.
Millennium Drum & Bugle Corps, which will be participating in the DCE European Championships this summer after four years of absence, will have an Italian show theme. The corps has based its show on Giacomo Casanova.
The first IMG SoundSport event to be held in the Royal Forest of Dean proved a big success with participants and fans alike, when this new series of shows rolled into Lydney, Gloucestershire. The Forest, which is a rural area on England's border with Wales, has long been the home of many successful Brass Band contests. But this was something new and different.
It's becoming a real tradition: ticket sales for the DCE European Championships, in Kerkrade on Saturday 24th September, have once again started with a huge run on tickets. Within a few minutes block A, which has 1,000 seats, was sold out.
Marching Band Activity United Kingdom (MBAUK) is celebarting its third anniversary today. MBAUK is an online area for anyone that loves music and marching to share positive stories and to share information.
The ticket sale for the DCE European Championships will start tonight at 8 pm GMT / 9 pm CET. We know from experience that the tickets will sell incredibly fast in the first few hours, so be on time if you want to secure a seat in the middle of the stand.
Percussion Unlimited won the Premier Class of the Indoor Music Games in Middelburg on Saturday. Beatrix won the gold medal in SoundSport.
The ticket sale for the DCE European Championships has started for VIP members. VIP Members can order tickets before the general ticket sale starts on 1st May. No VIP Member yet? Join now and secure the best seats.
Kadoudal Drum & Bugle Corps from Quiberon - France had a very succesful Spring Music Camp earlier this month. They are working towards their come-back at the DCE Championships in Kerkrade on 24th September.
European X finished in seventeenth place at the WGI Semi Finals in Dayton - Ohio, on Friday. The score was only a few tenths too low to compete in the Finals of the Independent Marching Open Class.
Cinderford Academy are pleased to announce the line up for the first IMG Forest of Dean show to be held in the Indoor Arena, Forest Oak Farm, Lydney, Gloucestershire on Saturday April 30. The groups appearing are Thurrock Marching Brass, Parkend Silver Band, 614 Lydney ATC Drum Corps, Cinderford Academy and Cinderford Town Band.
The members of Thurrock Marching Brass set themselves at the top of Wembley way to start a procession all the way to the Bobby Moore Statue situated at the Bobby Moore entrance of the world famous Wembley Stadium.
Drum Corps World is hoping to expand coverage of European competitions in the DCUK, BYBA and DCE circuits this season and into the future. Reporters and photographers are needed.
The programme has been announced for the Music Indoor Games/SoundSport in Middelburg on Saturday 23rd April. The ticket sale has now started.
Due to ongoing copyright compliance concerns, Winter Guard International has suspended the Zone until all the necessary requirements to stream performances have been obtained.
The Kidsgrove Scouts were crowned Open Class Champion 2016 at Winter Guard United Kingdom in Stoke on Trent last Saturday. The guard takes the title from the Southern Knights, who came second this year.
Besana Secutores Drum and Bugle Corps will be running a brass clinic featuring Derek Gipson, the Bluecoats’ brass caption head. The clinic is open to all drum corps and marching band brass players who are interested in developing and improving his technical skills and knowledge.
Maflower Winterguard will enter the WGI World Championships next week. The plan is to do several live streams during the trip.
The Troopers will have new uniforms this year. The new look will be lighter, with rolled up sleeves.
Sensation is Color Guard Netherlands Open Class champion of 2016. The group from Amersfoort peaked at exactly the right time in Almere - the Netherlands, on Saturday. They won by the smallest possible margin, beating The Pride of the Netherlands.
37th Kingswood Drum Corps have made the difficult decision to cease to operate as a competitive corps and a performance ensemble with immediate effect. The corps made the announcement on their Facebook page.
Following the announcement last month advising details of the 2016 Drum Corps United Kingdom contest locations has published details of the initial show entries for each of these events.
Thurrock Marching Brass have announced that their new Winter Theatre will be performing at the Indoor Music Games/Soundsport Forest of Dean show on Saturday 30th April 2016.
The number of subscribers to the all new UK Fan Network has now passed the total signed up to the original version. The new version was launched at the end of 2015.