by Paul Mordorski
skinnypaulm@yahoo.com
The drum and bugle corps activity is multi-faceted. From division III to division I in junior corps, the all-age corps with class A, open class, mini-corps and alumni, to parade corps for all, there should be a place for everyone to get the experience.
But what if you haven’t marched in several years and have the desire to march in an all-age corps that has aspirations of excellence? How difficult could it be?
The simple answer is, very. I...
by Steve Vickers, DCW Publisher
publisher@drumcorpsworld.com
Dane Skillrud graduated this spring from Harvard University. He spent a couple of years marching in Capital Sound from Madison, WI. His success at one of America’s top universities — and in landing a very special job he’ll start this summer — is due, in part, to his involvement in the drum and bugle corps activity.
I met his parents, Dana and John, a year and a half ago when they sat next to me at a...
by Steve Vickers, DCW Publisher
publisher@drumcorpsworld.com
This fall I will complete work on a new history book that contains nearly 2,200 drum and bugle corps images. The vast majority of photographs have been accumulated from the extensive archives of Drum Corps World, but there are a number of units that were not among the nearly 15,000 prints at the DCW office in Madison, WI.
I have sent this list to approximately 100 different photographers who have shot for DCW over the...
The Madison Drum & Bugle Corps Association, Inc. and its premier performance group, the Madison Scouts, will stage their first annual “$1,000,000 Shoot-Out” golf outing at Hawks Landing Golf Club in Madison, WI, on Wednesday, August 9. The start time is 11:30 AM.
Scheduled during the week of the Drum Corps International Championships that will be held at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium, it is open to local golfers from across Southern Wisconsin, as well as drum corps fans in Madison for the competition. The $150.00...
by Nic Waerzeggars, DCW staff
This article originally appeared in the May 2006 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 35, Number 2), mailed to subscribers on April 20.
A promising student turns 150
It seems outlandish to compare a city celebrating its sesquicentennial to a young, precocious student, but the inseparable nature of Madison to the University of Wisconsin-Madison beckons such a comparison.
Madison’s recent string of ‘best-ofs’ and ‘top 10’s’, as well as its ambitious array of expansions and forward...
