One more once! Join me for my Drum Corps Planet LIVE! From The Stands coverage of today’s DCA Alumni Spectacular!
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Join me for the last DCA competition of 2019, World Championships Finals! Here’s my Drum Corps Planet LIVE! From the Stands coverage of tonight’s show:
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Join me for my Drum Corps Planet LIVE! From the Stands coverage of tonight’s Shoremen Brass Classic DCI Open Class competition, hosted by the Avon Lake High School band program!
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Follow my LIVE! From the Stands coverage of tonight’s Legends Drum Corps Invitational DCI Open Class competition on Drum Corps Planet!
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Here are all of the photos I took at the 2019 Drum Corps Associates Saints Showcase competition, hosted by the Columbus Saints. Feel free to share these photos as long as you give me photo credit.
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2019 Drum Corps Tour
UPDATED 5/22/19 – 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 the winter and spring, there is a sense of withdrawal which takes place between WGI Championships and the start of the drum corps season. Fortunately, that period is only for a couple months, but it’s still there. In order to get myself psyched for the upcoming season, I love to plan out what shows I will go to throughout the summer for both DCI and DCA. That plan is what you see on this page.
Note that at least some of these shows will also feature live coverage by me for Drum Corps Planet and/or a show review by me for Drum Corps World. There may also be a few other things in the works as well which I am not at liberty to discuss at this time. I will update this list with which shows get what coverage from me.
- Shows I will attend
- DCW REVIEW – June 20th – 2019 DCI Tour Premiere Cinecast (Location TBA)
- DCP LIVE/DCW REVIEW – June 22nd – 2019 Innovations In Brass – Massillon (North Canton, Ohio)
- DCP LIVE/DCW REVIEW – July 20th – 2019 DCA Columbus (Columbus, Ohio)
- DCP LIVE/DCW REVIEW – July 27th – 2019 Legends Drum Corps Invitational (White Lake, Michigan)
- DCP LIVE/DCW REVIEW – August 3rd – 2019 Shoremen Brass Classic (Avon Lake, Ohio)
- DCP LIVE/DCW REVIEW – August 5th – 2019 Tour Of Champions – Akron (Akron, Ohio)
- DCP LIVE – August 8th – 2019 DCI World Class Championships Prelims (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- DCP LIVE – August 9th – 2019 DCI World Class Championships Semifinals (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- DCW REVIEW – August 10th – 2019 SoundSport International Music & Food Festival (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- DCP LIVE – August 10th – 2019 DCI World Class Championships Finals (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- DCW REVIEW – August 30th – 2019 DCA I&E and Mini Corps Competition (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
- DCP LIVE – August 31st – 2019 DCA Championships Prelims (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
- DCP LIVE – September 1st – 2019 DCA Alumni Spectacular (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
- DCP LIVE – September 1st – 2019 DCA Championships Finals (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
- Shows on FloMarching
- June 22nd – 2019 DCI West
- June 28th – 2019 DCI Central Indiana
- June 29th – 2019 DCI Drum Corps At The Rose Bowl
- July 6th – 2019 DCI Orlando
- July 7th – 2019 DCI Menomonie
- July 10th – 2019 Celebration In Brass
- July 13th – 2019 DCI Memphis
- July 13th – 2019 Tour Of Champions – Northern Illinois
- July 13th – 2019 Drums Along The Rockies
- July 18th – 2019 DCI Central Texas
- July 19th – 2019 SoCal Classic
- July 20th – 2019 Southwestern Championship
- July 27th – 2019 Southeastern Championship
- July 28th – 2019 NightBEAT
- August 2nd-3rd – 2019 Eastern Classic
- August 5th-6th – 2019 DCI Open Class World Championship
And so we come to the end, my friends. Once again, the Reading Buccaneers win the Open Class title, and deservedly so, while Carolina Gold pulls off an upset in Class A. Now it’s back to scanning Twitter and Facebook for videos and waiting for marching band season to start.
It’s Sunday morning, so we all go to the Church of Drum Corps for the Alumni Spectacular. It’s always great to take in “old school” drum corps performances, and all of the performing units brought their A game. The only down side to this show was that the sun came out. While that normally wouldn’t be a problem, the sun managed to take a cool and cloudy weekend and convert it into a steam bath almost as soon as it showed up. Still, live outdoor drum corps is worth the sacrifice.
And so the final weekend of the 2018 North America drum corps season begins. While I was not in the press box for any of the shows in Williamsport, DCA did give myself and fellow Drum Corps World journalist William Aldrich-Thorpe seats in the center section right in front of the press box to ensure we had a great view to report from. With 19 corps to review as well as cover live, I was pretty busy with just this show alone!