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VMAPA Announces Cessation Of Operations for the 2023 Season It is with grief and sorrow that we must announce the cessation of operations for the Santa Clara Vanguard for the season of 2023. Throughout the past months, a multiplicity of financial stressors have culminated into an unavoidable financial shortfall. This shortfall has been made more … Continue reading “Santa Clara Vanguard Announces Cessation Of Operations for the 2023 Season”

(shadowdbc.org) December 11, 2022 ​ Dear Shadow Friends and Family, ​ Shadow Drum and Bugle Corps was founded and built on a tradition of excellence and education that stretches back to 1972. For 50 years, the Oregon High School Summer Marching Band took the field each summer, competing in every season since MACBDA’s inception. In … Continue reading “Shadow Marching Arts to end all operations”

(legendspaa.org) After thoughtful consideration, the Legends Performing Arts Board of Directors voted unanimously to go inactive for the 2023 Season. “The escalating costs to operate a touring corps continue to show no signs of reversal and while we always do our best to find a way, the current economic and global conditions will be a … Continue reading “Legends to be inactive for 2023 Season”

(dci.org) A month and a half following the conclusion of Drum Corps International’s 50th anniversary celebrations at the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, corps directors are already back to work looking ahead to and planning for next summer. Their annual September planning meeting returned to an in-person format this fall, as delegates from each of … Continue reading “Notes from DCI’s fall planning meeting (2022)”