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he 2025 season is now history. It was another eventful and successful summer (although short) that showcased corps at all levels during DCI’s now full three-day championship...Read MoreBand Shoppe
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elcome to Drum Corps World Mobile. We’re glad you got the news and found your way to our inaugural issue for mobile phones, tablets, and any computing device, small or large...Read More
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his article provides details about our new DCW Mobile version, including options for device and browser settings to enhance your reading experience. While you need not do anything to enjoy DCW Mobile, there are optional settings for Text Size, Light/Dark Mode, Read Aloud (your device will read articles to you), and Language Translation...Read MoreStyle Plus Band Shoes
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n the post-DCI finals edition, in my article on the semi-finals performances, I accidentally referred to the Calgary Stampede Band as the Calgary Stetson Showband in a few places. I did not realize the error until after publication. To readers and fans of the Stampede, please accept my apologies and to the staff and the fine performers of the Stampede, in spite of my error I knew I was writing about you and your fine performances in Indianapolis were wonderful and very much appreciated. Corrections follow...READ MOREKey Poulan Music
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f the 86 DCI events held this summer by Drum Corps International, we published articles on 57 of them or a 66% report rate. We never ask a staff member to be at a show they weren't already planning to attend. That is generally the reason certain shows don't get a write-up....Read MoreFruhauf Uniforms, Inc.
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ast year, DCI had ended the annual "Big, Loud, & Live" cinecast event, citing declining attendance and rising costs, as well as the option to watch DCI Prelims on FloMarching. This announcement was met with a lot of disappointment, as many drum corps fans, myself included, loved going to the theater each year to enjoy drum corps on the big screen and on a superior surround sound system...READ MORE
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'm sitting here on a hillside overlooking the campus of Vermont State University, Castleton, VT. The Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps (BAC) is in residence for spring training for the 2025 season. I have enjoyed this annual experience since 2016, when I discovered they were in spring training here, only 75 minutes south of my humble home along the Mill Brook in Waitsfield. I am here to listen, watch and write about BAC's upcoming 2025 DCI tour. This sleepy little Vermont town is awakened once again by the Giant...Read MoreDrill Master
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ary Dickelman's DCI Southeast show report (Volume 54, Number 8, August 1, 2025, pages 3-17) provides an enlightening summary of the observer effect, which is the basis of the 2025 Bluecoats show. Here is a two-sentence summary. The two-slit physics experiment showed how the act of observing a stream of particles, using a detector, influences the way in which the particles behave. Quantum computing is based on quantum bits, which can represent a superposition of states, but when a quantum bit is observed, the superposition of states collapses into one of two states, 0 or 1....Read MoreFred J. Miller, Inc.
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eptember 3, 2025. DCA and Rochester, NY Labor Day weekend had me feeling nostalgic. As a drum corps kid growing up in upstate New York, it meant something big, really big! The Drum Corps Associates (DCA) Championships. The senior corps! The big guys. Labor Day weekend meant DCA. In the late 60's and early 70's, that championship was very often held just up the road from little Watkins Glen in the "big city" of Rochester, NY (eight times between 1968 and 1976.) We were raw small town drum corps kids just becoming "drum corps aware"...Read MoreA
s part of the 2025 DCI World Championships in Indianapolis a number of individuals were recognized for their outstanding leadership during the DCI Summer Tour. (Pictured here with presenter...Read MoreS
ince 2001, caption awards at the Drum Corps nternational World Championship have been determined by averaging the scores from all three nights of the World Championship competition.BEST BRASS - based on Music Brass score
BEST PERCUSSION - based on the total Music Percussion score
BEST VISUAL - based on Visual Proficiency score
BEST COLOR GUARD - based on Visual Color Guard score
BEST OVERALL GENERAL EFFECT - based on combining four General Effect scores DCI Summer Tour. (Pictured here with presenter...Read More
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nternational Corps Four members of the 1952 Little Flower Orphanage Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps (Hyde Park, MA) were refugees from Communist-controlled Poland, including Drum Major Andrew Pawlak.The Cadets were that season's CYO "Class 3" champions....Read MoreStanbury Uniforms
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he Florida Brass Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps from Zephyrhills, FL, is now going on its 23rd year of entertaining crowds in the sunshine state. The corps has many shows lined up this fall through the spring season from Vero Beach to Tampa...Read More.Pearl Percussion
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his article is not meant to degrade any generation but to invigorate the relationship between young and old drum corps enthusiasts / members while evolving into...? Drum corps isn't what it used to be and that's exactly the point...Read MoreE
ach year at the DCI World Championships, drum majors across Drum Corps International's competitive divisions are recognized with leadership awards. Named for the founder and former director of the Troopers, the Jim Jones Award presented to one World Class and one Open Class drum major each season recognizes recipients' leadership abilities, as evaluated through an application and interview process administered by DCI Hall of Fame member Gene Monterastelli...Read MoreDinkles Footwear
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t's that time of year when 2026 design teams are forming, productions are emerging, halls of fame are inducting new members....Read MoreWe Scan Files
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he Govenaires visited Ireland following DCI Finals to participate in the Rose of Tralee festival...Read More
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n this issue from Oct. 1967: CALIFORNIA, VFW and LEGION JR. NATIONAL CHAMPS...CAVALIERS, PASS IN REVIEW, ALL-AMERICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, SUGAR 'N SPICE, and ONTARIO. Amazing how many corps there were and how much activity there was throughout north America...Read MoreChopSaver
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heck out these great historical photos by 1980s drum corps photographer Ed Ferguson...Read More
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arolina Crown has a remarkable story. Though relatively young compared to some of its peers, the corps has built an impressive legacy in a short amount of time. Founded in 1989 after the Carolina Drum Corps Association set out to bring the activity to the region, Crown quickly rose to prominence, winning the DCI Division II Championship in 1993 and moving into World Class competition the following year. Since then, the corps has become a perennial powerhouse, earning a World Championship title in 2013 and maintaining a consistent streak of Finalist appearances. ..Read More
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very summer, Drum Corps International brings together young performers from across the country who dedicate themselves to an intense season of training, performing and personal growth. For some, the path is relatively close to home. For others, like Steven Hatcher and Lena Vo from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the journey requires extra determination -- most drum corps are hours away...READ MORE
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his artwork from the late Don Daber was the center spread of the 1985 U.S. Open program book....Read More
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heck out these amazing vintage pieces of Drum Corps World artwork from many years ago....Read MoreContact Drum Corps World
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