And The 2008 World Champions Are...

[cahwyguy]

Last night, we went out to the Rose Bowl for the DCI World Championship Finals. First, however, a digression, as not everyone is familiar with DCI or the sport of Drum Corps. I tend to describe it this way: Take a group of between 120 and 135 (soon to be 150) of young adults (aged 13-22). Break them into three units: marching brass, percussion,

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[shutterbug93]

Interesting... the marching band was a HUGE thing at my high school - in fact, it's what our school was known for (not having had a football team who could ever hope to win a game - people used to come to our football games to see the half time show.) ;) And though I wasn't musically inclined, I spent my high school years in the flag corps... ;)

It was pretty intense at my school - and they treated it as seriously as other sports - we had to audition, train, work out several times a week, rehearse for MANY hours everyday - we weren't even allowed to have after school jobs. It doesn't surprise me that this is treated as a serious sport - it sort of was to us at our school!

[cahwyguy]

Well, I can let you know about next summer's DCI shows, in case you want to plan your theatre trips around it :-)