Austin Stars Performing Arts Association (ASPAA), under Executive Directors Michael J. Vazquez and Robert Galindo, in collaboration with Johnathan Doerr, corps director for Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, have approved and recognized Guardians as a 501(c)(3) project under the ASPAA umbrella as permitted by ASPAA bylaws.

This effort has been months in development, as ASPAA and Guardians DBC have developed business, financial and organizational systems to help create a junior corps that is believed to be on the right track of eventually becoming...

by John Simpson (john.simpson0@icloud.com)

Publisher’s note: this article originally appeared in the June 2013 issue of the on-line magazine Drum Corps World, pages 94 and 96.

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Should a banjo replace the second violin in the Budapest string quartet? After all, it is a string instrument. Should Bb instruments be used in drum corps?

“Bb instruments are to be used indoors; G instruments are to be played outdoors,” said Ricardo Gabriel, bugle instructor for the USAF Drum and Bugle Corps and...

For the past few years Mansfield Town FC has provided DCUK the venue for the British Drum Corps Championship, but this year they were promoted out of the Football Conference and back into the main Football League. As a result, the club needs to carry out works to the grounds which means they are unable to host the championship event for 2013. DCUK would like to thank Mansfield Town for being such a great host.

For the past few weeks DCUK officials have been working on a replacement venue and are now pleased and excited to be able to advise...

Preston Scout House Alumni Band, of Cambridge, will extend Canada Day celebrations from the traditional one-mile parade route through downtown Preston on July 1 to include a giant family barbecue and picnic at the Knights of Columbus building, marking the Band’s 75th anniversary season.

The family picnic for hundreds of Scout House Alumni Band and Preston Scout House Cadets members, family, friends and members of the public will take place from 2:30 to 5 pm on the grass and inside the Knights of Columbus building at 333 Speedsville Road, the...

It’s been quite a long time coming, but the newly-redesigned and updated site for Drum Corps World has finally been completed.  Nearly all of the content from the previous site (articles, scores and historical products) has been transferred and a portion of the photos from earlier in this decade.  It was an enormous task that required considerably more time than anticipated.

One of the primary features of the new site is that the current and back issues of Drum Corps World are now accessible from the front...