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Written by Youth Education in the Arts website
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 The following story appeared in Marketwatch.com today and sends a signal to the Cadets and all corps. This summer, already hit with huge fuel increase for corps, now has the additional burden of food prices expected to be 20 percent higher than in 2007.
BULLETIN: U.S. food prices rise 0.9 percent -- their largest monthly increase in 18 years Visit here
For the Cadets, this has meant a series of meetings and a review of menus from day to day, according to Justin Heimbecker, Assistant Director of the Cadets.
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Written by Melina Downs, Stafford County Sun
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Hundreds of young musicians come from all over the world to compete in an intense marching band boot camp, spending 12-hour days completing music rehearsals and physical training.
It sounds like a pitch for the latest reality television show, but this is a reality North Stafford High School senior Andrew Piner has faced since November while competing for a spot with the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps.
One weekend a month, beginning in November 2007, Piner traveled to South Carolina to spend his days waking up at 6 a.m., beginning a four-hour music rehearsal, followed by five hours of push-ups, sit-ups and running and then participating in another block of music rehearsal.
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Written by Drum Corps International website
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Drum Corps International is incredibly pleased to announce one of the most ambitious Web-based undertakings since DCI's founding some 36 years ago. DCI World Class corps have come together to take the wraps off of the totally redesigned and wildly expanded “Fan Network” which now gives fans of drum corps across the world the chance to enjoy a spectacular, dizzying array of media options unlike anything ever offered before. Featuring unlimited and exclusive access to ALL of the action from ALL of the World Class corps on the 2008 DCI Summer Tour, incredible new features will help you catch every note of the excitement. But that's just the beginning!
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Written by Drum Corps International website
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Why did the Parliament of Quebec bar longtime Drum Corps International announcer Brandt Crocker from even touching the microphone at the World Championship Finals in 1982? What are the origins of the opening phrase “On the Field …”? Find the answers to these questions and more in part two of Dan Potter's interview with the “Voice of DCI” in today's Field Pass.
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Written by Georgia Purdy, Jasper Newsboy
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Jasper High School junior Andrew Kier has been selected to tour with the Drum Corps International group Memphis Sound this summer. Kier is a drum major with the JHS band.
"I've never seen Andy so excited about anything as he is this," Jasper High School Band Director Jeff Parma said.
Kier said he sent an audition tape with not much expectation of being picked.
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Written by David Endicott, Founding Director, The Explorer Fund for the Madison Scouts
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
 Former Dane County Executive Jonathan Barry has been named to the Board of Trustees of The Explorer Fund for the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps ( www.MadisonScouts.org ).
A former Dane County and state legislator, Barry served several terms on the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and as a corporate and non-profit executive of numerous prominent organizations. He has operated a family beef and produce farm in the Mount Horeb area since 1970 and serves as the part-time development director for Operation Fresh Start in Madison. |
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