The DCI Classic Countdown
– 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)
