Showband Calypso from Zwevegem - Belgium will be introducing a large alumni corps next year. The corps with former members of the show band already has more than 100 musicians and guard members.

The Blue Barons Mini Corps will not only participate in the Indoor Music Games/SoundSport competition next year, they also run an IMG event themselves. Drum Corps Europe asked Greg Small from the Blue Barons about the vision and future of the group.

Drum Corps International has announced the 2016 summer tour, including a long-awaited return to the Sunshine State. During the run of the 52-day summer season, the 44th annual DCI Tour will showcase more than 60 drum corps at events in 39 states.

A new initiative has started in Italy to encourage Italian musicians and guard members to join an American drum corps. The project is called 'Italians in DCI & DCA'.

Drum Corps International has announced the first 2016 dates of SoundSport events. The current schedule has four European performance opportunities and five US showcases on tap thus far, with additional dates being added on an ongoing basis.

Indoor Percussion Europe will be adding an extra sports hall to the IPE European Championships in Wevelgem on Sunday 20th March. The additional hall is within walking distance of the De Schelp arena and offers participants the opportunity to warm up.

The 2016 show production of Beeches Performance Ensemble is entitles 'Aqua'. The American David Reeves will write the muscic arrangements. The corps has decided to go open age.

The DVDs of the DCE European Championships will be available this week. If you order now, you will still be one of the first people to get your DVD delivered!

Nico Owen will lead the battery of European X next season, in preparation for their tour to Winter Guard International. Owen has a lot of experience in the American drum corps activity.

Since the organisation’s founding in 1967, Santa Clara Vanguard has yet to send an ensemble overseas. That is, until now. This December, select members of the corps travel to Taiwan to perform as part of the Taoyuan International Band Festival.

The Starriders have published a professionally looking promo video for the 2016 season. Videographer and Starriders member Jonas Weckschmied shot the video.

The registration for both the DCE European Championships 2016 and the Indoor Music Games (including SoundSport) 2016 has opened. Registration is possible through the DCE website.

After the DCA Fall meeting in Maryland, DCA President Gil Silva will end his tenure as DCA President. Drum Corps Associates have announced Silva's retirement on their website.

The registration for the Indoor Music Games and SoundSport 2016 series will open this Sunday, 1st November. The first season will see four events in Ireland, England, the Netherlands and Scotland.

Winter Guard International will expand the 2016 WGI Color Guard World Championships scheduled for 7th-9th April into the Oxford - Ohio area. Millett Hall located on the grounds of Miami University has been chosen to serve as one of the contest venues for the world championships.

The drumline of Jubal Drum & Bugle Corps won the 'Grand Prize' at the DrumLine Battle in Lithuania on Saturday. The drummers from Dordrecht - The Netherlands were up against Eastern European competitors.

Drum Corps Europe and Drum Corps International are pleased to announce the dates for the 2016 Indoor Music Games and SoundSport events. 2016 will see four events in four different countries.

Time will be the theme of the new show by Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps from Bad Münder. The production from the German champion and thirteen times DCE finalist is entitled 'About Time'.

The Blue Barons embark upon their second year of performances with a strengthened membership and are relishing the opportunity to meet and compete with a range of new groups in the European Indoor Music Games.

The Indoor Music Games are coming to Middelburg - The Netherlands, on Saturday 23rd April 2016, with a contest to be run in collaboration with Juliana Drum & Bugle Corps.

The live webcast of the DCE Championships 2015 has been watched in 91 countries. Nearly 13,000 viewers watched some or all of the European Championships in Kerkrade.

The DVDs of the DCE European Championships will be released at the end of this month, both the Prelims and the Finals. Pre-order your DVDs now and be one of the first to receive your DVD set in the mail!

The latest edition of the online drum corps magazine Drum Corps World features reports on both the DCUK and DCE Championships. The magazine is now available online.

Artist Peter Franken has designed the logo for the new Indoor Music Games. The logo will be used for all events of the new indoor competition in Europe.

The Company Performance Ensemble will be travelling to the USA for a two-week tour in late July and early August 2017 to take part in the Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis - Indiana.

With a big bang, the European Music Games 2015 ended on Saturday night, 26th September. Were you in the stands or did you watch the webcast, and want to be on the field yourself next year? Grab your chance and go along to the open days of corps in your area!

The live webcast of the DCE European Championships 2015 has been made possible by 95 drum corps fans who have donated more than 1,700 dollar. Thanks to these patrons, Drum Corps Europe was able to run the webcast for free again. The webcast had almost 13,000 viewers.

The Kidsgrove Scouts will return to the United States in 2017 to participate in the Drum Corps Associates competition. It will be their fourth American tour in seven years time.

Last Saturday, 32 performances of European corps could be seen live in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium. Now you can watch all shows in HD quality on the DCE Video Vault, all videos have been posted online.

Yesterday saw fifteen bands and corps take part in one of the most exciting and closest fought British Youth Band Association National Championships in recent years. The titles went to East Coast Elite (Premier Class), Lanesfield BB/GB (Championship Class), Dynamic Vibe (Associate Class) and Cadence Juniors (Cadet Class).

DCE's strategic partner Indoor Percussion Europe has launched a new website. The new site includes an uncluttered design. "Our goal with the new website was to make it faster, easier to navigate and more user friendly", IPE states.

After a thrilling final, the Kidsgrove Scouts are the European champions. Although the British corps was behind The Company in the Prelims, in the evening it overtook its opponent. With 91.25 points, the corps won the title.

Johan Friso are the European champions in the Junior Class. The corps from Middelburg won the title in Kerkrade with a strong show (82.75). Jong Jubal were very close (82.20),  Jong Beatrix came third (76.45).

It’s D(CE) Day and how! The tension in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium is unprecedented, after the thrilling result of the Prelims. The top two are only two-tenths away from each other, with The Company as the leader for now.

As in previous years, the DCE European Championships are once again made possible thanks to the support of various sponsors. It is our pleasure to introduce you to them: The most drum corps-loving companies can be found at the DCE Market Place in front of the Parkstad Limburg Stadium on Saturday.

Drum corps fans won’t be bored for a single moment in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium next Saturday. But for those who still just want to stretch their legs, there is fun to be had outside the stadium too. In front of the stadium we will once again have an impressive market place where you can go shopping.

The programme of the DCE European Championships has been published. After the DCUK Finals, the order of the Premier Class Prelims and the Junior Class Finals have been determined, based on the European ranking.

DCE will have a live webcast of the DCE European Championships this year. There was some uncertainty about whether the online broadcast could be continued, but thanks to a crowdfunding project, the live webcast has been made possible. Thank you!

2016 will see the re-launch of the Indoor Music Games across Europe, a series of SoundSport events produced by Drum Corps Europe in cooperation with Drum Corps International and the national sanctioning organization in each country sponsoring an event.

For the members of a junior corps, it is often difficult to carry heavy instruments. The Blue Diamonds from Nienhagen solved that problem by developing their own series of instruments: Diamond Musical Instruments.

Don’t have tickets yet for the grand finale of the European Music Games, the DCE European Championships? Order them now! The ticket sales for the European Championships close on Tuesday.

The Company are the DCUK champions of 2015. With a score of 85.85, the corps from Stanfree took the Open Class title in Widnes last Saturday with their show 'Voyage Spectacle'. The Kidsgrove Scouts came second, with a difference of only 0.25 points.

The ticket sales for the DCE European Championships are going well. Drum Corps Europe has sold more tickets already than in 2014.

Blue Devils International has started preparations for the second European tour, which will take place in 2016. Auditions for BDI have been announced.

DrumLine Battle, a rapidly growing series of worldwide competitive and exhibition music ensemble performance opportunities produced by Drum Corps International, and Drum Corps United Kingdom are pleased to announce the first officially sanctioned DrumLine Battle in England in conjunction with the 2015 British Drum Corps Championships.