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(www.projo.com)
BRISTOL — So you think putting together a show of drum and bugle corps from across the country gets easier after you’ve been doing it for a while?
Anthony Mederos says it isn’t so, especially finding a place to sleep for the bands.
Mederos, the veteran cochairman of the Bristol Fourth of July Band Committee, says, “It’s quite a task…. It’s a big undertaking but we get it done.”
The show, one of the biggest July 4th events, attracts an estimated 3,000 fans and produces a profit of $3,000 to $4,000.
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The 16th annual summer music preview will be Sunday at 7 p.m. at Mt. Hope’s Dietz Field. Tickets are available this week at the nightly band concerts in front of Colt School or at Gil’s Television and Appliances. The show will go on, rain or shine.
This year’s bands are the Crossmen and the Cadets, both from Allentown, Pa.; Spirit of Jacksonville (Ala.) State University; Magic of Orlando (Fla.); Jersey Surf of Belin, N.J.; East Coast Jazz of Malden, Mass., and Carolina Crown of Fort Mill, S.C.
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(desmoinesregister.com)
Celebration in Brass, a Drum Corps International drum and bugle corps competition, will return to Ankeny on July 12.
The event will be held at the Ankeny High School stadium, 1302 N. Ankeny Boulevard. Gates will open at 6 p.m., with the program beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eight drum and bugle corps from around the country are participating this year.
All seats are reserved. Tickets are $12, $18 and $25. The $25 tickets include a picnic supper before the event and special parking privileges.
For more information or to order tickets, go online to www.ankeny.org, or call the Ankeny Area Chamber of Commerce at (515) 964-0685.
(www.baltimoresun.com)
Youth Education in the Arts (YEA!) and the Westminster High School marching band are sponsoring a drum and bugle corps competition Thursday that will feature seven groups: the Cadets, the Crossmen, Boston Crusaders, Carolina Crown, Jersey Surf, Magic of Orlando and Spirit from Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
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Students will watch the corps members and learn different performance techniques. The competition also enables the students to observe the motivation corps members put into their performances.
Each group will present an 11 1/2 -minute performance. After the local competition, the winners will participate in the Drum Corps International finals, scheduled for Aug. 11-13 in Boston.
The Westminster competition is part of the Music is Cool Tour 2005 organized by YEA!, a nonprofit organization that teaches youth about the performing arts.
(www.charlotte.com)
Hosting FirstBEAT Wednesday night, Carolina Crown kicked off its 2005 season with
a “home opener” at Fort Mill High School.
A power-packed lineup competed in this early season show — all seven drum and bugle corps finished in the top 13 in the world last season, including the returning Drum Corps International champions, the Cavaliers from Rosemont, Ill.
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The Cavaliers finished in first place, scoring a 78.45, the Cadets from New Jersey finished in second place with 74.70, followed by the Bluecoats from Ohio with a 72.70 for third place. Carolina Crown finished in fourth place, 71.20, followed by the Glassmen from Ohio, Boston Crusaders from Massachusetts and Spirit of JSU from Alabama.
(www.fivestarbrass.com)
It is with deep sadness that we announce the cancellation of the 2005 Hershey Spectacular.
Last month the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Co (HERCO), who are the owners of Hersheypark Stadium, decided to produce a pop-concert (Destiny’s Child) on the evening of August 7th. Hersheypark Management took this action with full knowledge that the Hershey Spectacular was also booked for that night. This step by HERCO prompted us to initiate immediate legal action. Even though a court has since determined that a preliminary injunction would not be ordered, HERCO eventually decided to move the pop-concert to the Giant Center arena and once again allow the Hershey Spectacular to have the August 7th date back, subject to execution of a signed contract. Ultimately a contract was presented and after much negotiation and consideration, agreement on the terms could not be reached. Several key items of the contract were of issue, most notably was an estimated price increase in excess of 110%.
Due to yet unresolved contract issues, other risk factors, and a dwindling number of days left to complete show preparation have regrettably left us with no other choice, but to cancel this years Hershey Spectacular.
Drum and bugle corps has been presented at the Hersheypark Stadium for more than 60 years. We at Five Star Brass Productions have been staging this event for the past 20 years. It has been a labor of love and through your loyalty the Hershey Spectacular has grown to be one of the finest drum and bugle corps competitions in the country.
Everyone who purchased tickets will receive a full refund. Information on how to obtain your refund will be mailed to all current ticket holders within the next two weeks. This information will also be available on our website.
From all of us here at Five Star Brass Productions, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this situation may have created and also accept our heart felt “Thank You” for your past support.
(www.eastvalleynews.com)
All-day rehearsal camp for the Seattle Cascades Drum & Bugle Corps has returned to Mount Angel and is making noise in the community.
For the second consecutive summer the national touring corps is marching on the John F. Kennedy fields and taking refuge in the school’s cafeteria in preparation for a 60-day Summer Music Games Tour beginning June 30.
The tour culminates Aug. 13 at the DCI World Championships in Foxboro, Mass. The Cascades will also compete locally at the Drums of Fire Summer Music Games in Woodburn July 6 and at the Portland Summer Music Games in Hillsboro July 8.
The Seattle Cascades landed themselves in Mount Angel coincidentally last year and couldn�t resist a return visit after such a welcoming stay.
“It’s really great to get the support of the community,” said corps member Gedy Bienvienu of Lafayette, La.
Last year several Mount Angel residents brought doughnuts, cookies and even aloe vera to sooth sunburned skin.
“They let us in with open arms,” Bienvienu said.
The sleeping army of musicians awake at 8 a.m.; they are stretching by 9 a.m., and on the fields rehearsing by 10 a.m. During meal times band students rest under the shade of the dinning cart or a semi truck equipped with kitchen utensils and cooking wear. They run back and forth to the drink stations, the girls dressed in shorts and sports bras, the boys without shirts.
Spending 12-hour days under the hot sun and frequent rain showers, marching, note-taking and napping or doing laundry during down times may not sound like the best way to spend the summer. But for 135 band corps students, nothing could be better.
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The Seattle Cascades, a member of Drum Corps International, are the oldest nationally touring corps in the Pacific Northwest, each summer traveling 12,000 miles to multiple competitions.
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Founded in 1957, the corps hosts students ages 14 through 22, most of them music majors or students interested in the field, from all over the Pacific Northwest and a scattering of middle and eastern states.
The Seattle Cascades received placement as the 12th best drum and bugle corps in the world in 2002. This year they’re striving to again reach the top 12, and the corps is ahead of the game, already having learned the show.
“We’ve got the full show down, so now we only have to make it clean and make it all that much better,” said contra player Tom McClellan of Salem.
The 2005 corps features a program titled “The Airborne Symphony.” The show features brass arrangements by Dr. Tim Salzman, director of concert bands at the University of Washington, percussion arrangements by Rob Lewis, director of bands at East Valley High School in Spokane, and David Reeves, percussion instructor for the UW marching band. The corps director is Dr. Sal Leone of Shoreline, Wash.
(www.indeonline.com)
Earlier this week, the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps debuted its 2005 program, “Caravan,” which features the essence of Ellington’s big band standard by the same name. The group will be returning to Paul Brown Tiger Stadium on July 31 in conjunction with the Pro Football Hall of Fame festivities.
“The Bluecoats is as professional an organization as any of the others we are bringing in,” said Jacquelin Woodring, director of marketing and events for the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Based in the Akron/Canton area, the Bluecoats consist of nearly 150 young musicians ages 15-22. Most of the members are over 18 and are college music majors.
“The members … are very high caliber,” said David Glasgow, executive director of the Bluecoats. “They are the very best and brightest in their music programs.”
This summer, the Bluecoats will represent Northeast Ohio as they travel over 12,000 miles through 40 cities. As a member of Drum Corps International, a non-profit organization that facilitates drum and bugle corps competitions throughout the world, the group will have the opportunity to compete internationally. They will compete 35 times on small and large scales to earn both awards and prestige within the DCI family.
The Bluecoats have finished as a DCI world finalist in each of the last 17 years. Last season, they finished sixth overall, their highest finish to date. Next month, the Bluecoats return to show off exactly what has taken them to the World Championship Finals over and over again. Only this time, they will be bringing friends.
The July 31 performance at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium will include seven other DCI drum and bugle corps from across North America. The bands will square off for just one of the Bluecoats’ 35 competitions.
In addition to providing high-quality entertainment through competition, the locally-based group also gives the area something else to be proud of during the Hall of Fame Festival.
“The (Hall of Fame) festival itself has roots in this community … so, we always want to remember the local community,” Woodring said. “(The Bluecoats) do a nice job and are high profile in terms of pageantry … we are proud to be partnering them.”
The Bluecoats roots date back to 1972 when the organization sprung up as an outgrowth of the Canton Police Boy’s Club and the J. Babe Stearn Center. Therefore, according to Glasgow, the Bluecoats take pride in their Northeast Ohio roots. As a result, members are carefully selected to represent the area.
(www.pennlive.com)
CARLISLE - A Cumberland County judge is expected to decide today whether a drum and bugle corps competition or the pop group Destiny’s Child has dibs on an Aug. 7 date in Hersheypark Stadium.
Judge Edward E. Guido finished hearing testimony yesterday on a plea from Carlisle-based Five Star Brass Productions Inc., which is seeking an injunction securing that date for its Hershey Spectacular.
Five Star is suing Hershey Entertainment &Resorts Co., claiming the midstate’s largest entertainment firm breached an oral agreement that reserved the stadium for its competition on Aug. 7.
Hershey officials are claiming there was no such commitment because Five Star didn’t have a written contract for its event, which has been held in the stadium for 20 years.
The deal with Destiny’s Child was struck in mid-May, they said.
Larry Hershman, Five Star chairman, said he received an oral commitment for the Aug. 7 date three months earlier.
Hershman has said his firm could be ruined if it can’t have that date.
More than 1,000 tickets have been sold, he said, and top-ranked units have committed to participate.
Many of those units are affiliated with Drum Corps International, whose president, Dan Acheson, testified by phone yesterday.
Acheson said the performers probably wouldn’t attend if the program, scheduled for the evening, was moved to the morning of Aug. 7.
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DEVELOPMENTS
- A judge will decide today on two disputed events, both set for Aug. 7 at Hersheypark Stadium.
- Five Star Brass Productions and pop group Destiny’s Child say they have a deal with the stadium.
- Hersheypark Stadium claims the drum and bugle corps never sent them a written contract.
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