The founder of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, Don Warren, passed away this morning. To say that a giant has left us is an understatement. Don Warren’s contributions to the drum corps activity and to the Cavaliers are immeasurable. His influence continues through the many Cavaliers corps brothers who marched throughout the Green Machine’s […]
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2019 Drum Corps Tour
UPDATED 5/21/19 – The first Drum Corps World review assignments are out. I have updated my schedule below to show the reviews AND Drum Corps Planet live coverage I’ll be providing this summer. Keep your eyes peeled for more updates as the schedule is further finalized. Now that I follow and attend indoor events during […]
Flashback Friday: That Time I Was On A Christmas Album
In 1993, my second year marching with the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps, we took part in a project which involved multiple members of Drum Corps International and recorded a track for Ornaments in Brass. Ornaments in Brass was an album of (mostly) Christmas songs recorded by various drum corps during the 1993 summer tour […]
Drum Corps In The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Every year, millions of people watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, either in person in New York City, on TV, or, in a thoroughly modern way, on the Internet. Some watch for the Broadway performances prior to the start of the parade at Macy’s. Others watch for the balloons and floats. Some of you may […]
Report: Drum corps leader threw things at work, called women ‘little girls’
A report released Monday depicts in new detail Hopkins’ management of the nonprofit, which operates the nationally recognized Cadets drum and bugle corps. It describes the 62-year-old Hopkins, who was ousted as executive director in April amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as “aggressive, combative and unreasonable.” Hopkins declined to be interviewed for the report, which […]
2018 Drum Corps Retrospective – DCI Finals
This was a strange one for me. For the first time since DCP started doing LIVE! From the Stands coverage of DCI Championships, I was actually covering the show FROM the stands. DCI and/or Lucas Oil Stadium determined that the press box was off limits due to “security reasons”. Regardless, I managed to cover the […]
2018 Drum Corps Retrospective – Big, Loud, & Live 15 Cinecast
With the 2018 DCI season about to end, we returned to movie theaters for the first of three nights of Championships. I’ll admit I also had the FloMarching feed of Prelims running on my phone while at work so I could at least hear the Open Class corps and those World Class corps seeded 16th […]
2018 Drum Corps Retrospective – Tour Of Champions Massillon
The final regular season show of the 2018 DCI World Class season, and it’s my home show! This was also the only show this season where I was actually in the press box for the show, which made for a nice change since I wasn’t elbowing people on either side of me while typing or […]
2018 Drum Corps Retrospective – Shoremen Brass Classic
It’s a bonus when I can attend a local show on my birthday! As I celebrated my 44th session on this world, I took in one of the last Open Class shows of the 2018 regular season as DCI Championships loomed ahead. I always want to give as much love to the Open Class corps […]
2018 Drum Corps Retrospective – Soaring Sounds 39
FloMarching and social media videos are good and all, but there’s nothing like live and in your face drum corps, hence why I made another weeknight trip far from home to catch a show. Centerville, like Mason, is over 3 hours from home for me, but it was well worth the drive to catch my […]