by Robert Siddall

This article was originally published in the June 2008 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number 3). For this and other quality articles on the worldwide drum and bugle corps activity that you can’t find anywhere else, subscribe to the monthly newspaper by going to the “store” on this Web site.

In 1988, my wife and I were looking for an activity for our daughter to participate in. One morning we heard a radio advert that a local drum and bugle corps, the Calgary Cavaliers, was holding an open...

by Steve Vickers, DCW Publisher
publisher@drumcorpsworld.com

For drum corps fans who were there and those who weren’t, Drum Corps World has produced a new set of DVDs containing eight of the August 18, 1972 performances, a show by the Troopers from 1971 and a short documentary on the restoration of this historic video.

DCW Publisher Steve Vickers became aware that Troopers Director Jim Jones had an extensive collection of videos he had filmed when he stayed at Jones’ house in...

by Mike Ferlazzo, DCW staff
mferlazzo@yahoo.com

This article originally appeared in the August 2008 issue of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number 5).

Drum Corps International announced in May that, among several cost-cutting measures, the DCI Board of Directors voted to reduce the number of adjudicators to five for all World Class events prior to July 4 — or some 30 shows. The decision was expected to save the organization about 20 percent of a projected budget shortfall, or more than...

This article originally appeared in the July 2008 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number4).

The Northern Star Group was formed around its prime activity, one of the U.K.’s most successful junior drum and bugle corps’, which started in 1993 from the Boys Brigade, a national uniformed youth group. Subsequently, the organization shifted to being independent.

Since then, the D&BC has gone from strength to strength, winning four consecutive national titles through 2007 in the British Youth Band Association, the U.K.’s...

by Steve Vickers, DCW Publisher
publisher@drumcorpsworld.com

This article originally appeared in the August 2008 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number 5).

Publisher’s note: Part 1 appeared in the July 2008 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number 4) that was mailed to subscribers on June 26. In that segment, Steve Rondinaro discussed his early days in the activity with the Watkins Glen Squires, his move to Florida and subsequent involvement with the Florida...