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(Bugle Corps will be in parade)
The United States Naval Academy Midshipman Drum and Bugle Corps will be performing in Concord’s Patriots Day Parade on April 17. Established in 1914, the USNA Drum and Bugle Corps is the oldest active drum corps in the nation.
The Corps is comprised of approximately 100 midshipmen who hail from all parts of the country. In addition to meeting academic, physical conditioning and professional development demands at the Academy, these midshipmen perform nearly 200 times per year at football games, festivals, shows, parades, and military functions.
Upon graduation, each midshipman will accept a commission either as an ensign in the United States Navy or as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
Link: United States Naval Academy Drum & Bugle Corps
(casperstartribune.net)
The Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps is falling into formation: Its supporters are shouting “bingo” in a new hall, and the group is working to resume competitive marching in 2007, the chairman of its board of directors said Monday.
“The criticism has definitely died down and hopefully that’s because of the steps we’ve taken,” Milward Simpson said.
In late September, Drum Corps International terminated the Troopers’ membership in the national coalition, “due to internal and external compliance issues, spanning several years,” according to the DCI.
Those compliance issues included failing to submit tax information in a timely manner for more than five years, according to the DCI. Since 1996, the corps has not filed its Internal Revenue Service Forms 990. The forms are required of all 501(c)3 nonprofit corporations that receive more than $25,000 a year in revenue and are not religious organizations.
On Oct. 2, the board of the Troopers, nicknamed “Wyoming’s Musical Ambassadors,” voted not to field a corps in 2006, and to use the time rebuilding the organization instead.
The Troopers board will have a good idea of its progress when the organization’s director, Mike Ottoes, meets with DCI officials later this month, Simpson said.
The DCI board will vote at its annual meeting in September whether to reinstate the Casper group, he said.
Before reinstating the Troopers and allowing them to compete with other drum and bugle corps, DCI asked the organization to get its house in order, including filing the IRS forms, paying off more than $120,000 in debts and crafting a business plan, Simpson said.
Link: Troopers
(transworldnews.com)
– Drum Corps Fans Picked the Top 12 Performances of All Time, See Who Wins on Thursday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m. Local Time in a Special Big Screen Concerts(SM) event at Movie Theatres Across the Country
– Four decades! Twelve of the best DCI corps of all time! Only One Night!
Drum corps and marching band fans won’t want to miss some of the top Drum Corps International (DCI) performances ever recorded, marching into nearly 150 select movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. local time (Alaska locations start at 6:00 p.m.). The DCI Classic Countdown Big Screen Concerts(SM) event is the ultimate drum corps cinema showdown, featuring three hours of the top 12 drum corps performances of all time, covering more that 4 decades of DCI finals performance video archives.
More than 7,000 drum corps fans swamped the online polls at www.dci.org to vote for their favorite performances from the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. The corps will be featured in chronological order on screen, but drum corps fans will have to wait for the winning corps to be revealed on the big screen at the end of the in-theatre event. The 12 corps that have been selected for the 2006 DCI Classic Countdown are:
- 1975 27th Lancers (Revere, MA)
- 1979 Blue Devils (Concord, CA)
- 1980 Bridgemen (Bayonne, NJ)
- 1984 Garfield Cadets (Bergenfield, NJ and Allentown, PA)
- 1988 Madison Scouts (Madison, WI)
- 1989 Phantom Regiment (Rockford, IL)
- 1992 Crossmen (Philadelphia and Allentown, PA)
- 1993 Star of Indiana (Bloomington, IN)
- 1995 Cavaliers (Rosemont, IL)
- 1999 Santa Clara Vanguard (Santa Clara, CA)
- 2004 Carolina Crown (Fort Mills, SC)
- 2005 Bluecoats (Canton, OH)
The DCI Classic Countdown Big Screen Concerts(SM) event is presented by National CineMedia and Drum Corps International. Tickets are on sale now at participating Regal, United Artists, Edwards, Cinemark, AMC and Georgia Theatre Company movie theatre box offices and online at www.BigScreenConcerts.com for $12.50. (For a complete list of participating theatre locations, please visit www.BigScreenConcerts.com)
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