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During the 2025 season a total of 86 events were staged by Drum Corps International. Of those shows, we published 66% of them with an article and photographs. That set a new record for the percentage of coverage included in the seven editions released for the summer season.Read More
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"Gayle's spirit of innovation was evident in everything she did. Whatever she was involved in, she left it better than she found it. This was true of her philosophy for the ever-growing company, her extensive efforts in renovating historically significant places ...Read More.
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August 9, 2025 -- Indianapolis, IN...Celebrating Boston Crusaders' historic win at DCI 2025 World Class finals. "One of the oldest active World Class corps, originated in 1940 and a founding member of Drum Corps International, took 27 years since the genesis of DCI to reach its first Top 12 appearance — a ninth place finish in 1999. 23 years after that, the corps earned a medal for the first time." - DCI...Read More
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August 8, 2025 -- Indianapolis, IN . . . Each of the days of the DCI Championships has something incredible to offer. Prelims gives us the opportunity to see all the World Class, Open Class and this year the International Class competitors. On Friday morning we had the ...Read More
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Bruno Zuccala, a 2017 DCI Hall of Fame inductee remembered for nearly three decades of instructional and leadership roles with The Cavaliers, died August 21 at the age of 68. His death was widely noted on social media, including by lifelong friend and fellow Hall of Fame member Michael Gaines...Read More
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August 4, 2025--Canton, OH...You know you have a great show when every corps it features was in last season's top 14. You also know you have a great show when two of those corps went head-to-head for the title last season and are doing it AGAIN this season. Add to that this having "Innovations in Brass" take place on the last day of the DCI regular season...Read More
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August 2, 2025--Allentown, PA...Genesis is a corps that has been growing the past few years and this year is no exception. Their horn line plays very well even though they are of a younger age. Despite this their drum line has some great running and cuts through the rest of the corps...Read More
Band Shoppe
August 2, 2025--Williamsport, PA...One other similarity between my experiences was that the Freelancers were again mini-corps champions. While I didn't get to see them win on Friday night, the Sacramento-based group led off tonight's show, essentially a victory encore...Read More
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The first season of Drum Corps International (DCI)'s break-off from the American Legion/VFW system in 1972 was met with an interesting dichotomy of organizational rebellion and creative conservatism by both Don Warren's Cavaliers and Gail Royer's Santa Clara Vanguard. In reaction to the poor reception of their "Greatest Show on Earth" production...Read More
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For the first time in corps history the Boston Crusaders are World Champions. On August 9, the 2025 DCI season concluded in Indianapolis, IN, with the Crusaders scoring a 98.425, narrowly surpassing Bluecoats by .175. In addition to the Gold Medal, Boston took home the coveted Fred Sanford Award for Best Percussion Performance with a perfect 20.000 score, a feat not achieved since the 1987 Garfield Cadets... ... Read More
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Former vaudeville comedians and musicians Fred and Faye Taylor founded the Blue Knights in 1958. Since then the corps has become known for its bold innovations in visual design and contemporary programming, earning a place as a DCI World Championship finalist more than 20 times...Read More
Troopers, Reading Buccaneers, Music City-Eastman, Matt Sieves
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On Saturday September 27, the 2025 European Drum Corps Championships will return to the FC Dordrecht stadium in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Competition will be held in four different classes! World Drum Corps Hall of Fame member Hans Kloppert, former Jubal chairman, is event host for the championships for the fourth year in a row... ... Read More
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In search of grass
San Bernardino, CA, was the site of the April 26, 1959 National Orange Show. Too much rain a day earlier made the stadium off-limits for the scheduled color guard contest, so American Legion officials went door-to-door in the area, looking for a front lawn...Read More
We Scan Files
Here's an interesting piece from reader Dave Borck, a former of Norwood Park Imperials member and a past DCI judge. Widmayer, according to notes on a 1960 American Legion Fleetwood record album, started more than a dozen corps in Chicago in the 1920s. Norwood Park survived into the 1980s.s...Read More
Features coverage of The Trophies, Cavaliers, Trailblazers, Legion Ares, and more from the 1968 drum corps season. Original reports from correspondents across the Midlands, East Coast, and Pacific Northwest regions...Read More
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Check out these great historical photos by legendary drum corps photographer Ron DaSilva, from the 1960s thru the late 1980s...Read More
Marching Pageantry Arts Museum
Since the European Drum Corps Championships (EDCC) were revived after the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been successfully delivered through the leadership of Hans Kloppert, with dedicated support from Alan Thompson, Joe Fitzpatrick and a broad network of European marching organisations...Read More
Cartoon: Bus Choice with the Rookie
Below are the preliminary placings and scores as the 1972 DCI prelims were still going on since the Kilties had yet to perform and would knock Garfield out of the finals...Read More
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