Madison Scouts: "78th & Madison"
Coastal Surge: "Cast Into Darkness"
7th Regiment: "The Labyrinth"
Each of those titles look like they hold potential for some very interesting and powerful shows. I can't wait to hear more! But that brings us to our next topic of the week: Drum Corps Pranks... Knowing that there has been such significant anticipation among the DCI fan base community for the announcement of the 2015 shows, some corps took at advantage of that and pulled some pretty clever and humorous April Fools Day pranks on us. From the Bluecoats performing T-Swift's "Shake It Off", to Blue Knights' shoe partnership, to Spirit of Atlanta's Harry Potter rendition, they really had us going. Here below is the link to your full guide to Drum Corps April Fools' Day Pranks.
The thing is, I have an inside source with Troopers and there actually may be some degree of validity to this "Wild Horses" stuff. Guess we'll just have to wait and see! In short news, The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps from Allentown, PA have just recently announced that they will be conducting their Spring training at Ohio Northern University. I just find this interesting because it is out-of-state for them and a fellow university of Ohio. Fun fact I guess.
Now I'm gonna flip the subject over to WGI. At about this time, every competitive winter guard is firing all engines, working overtime, and polishing every detail of their show in preparation for World Champs in Dayton on the 18th, But this last weekend, dozens of local guards went to showcase their performance at the Tristate Marching Arts (TMA) Championships. According to their mission, TMA is "an organization that serves Winter Guard, Percussion, and performance units. Members of TMA are from scholastic and independent units in the Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia region." The competition was held at East Central High School and although most groups were scholastic-class winter guards, other independent winter guards were in attendance, including Vertigo, INov8 Independent, Allegoria, Pride of Cincinnati, and our own UC Bearcat Band Accents! From what I have heard, each color guard was pulling out all the stops in their performances, especially being their last big show before World Championships. Here below are the scores from the independent winter guards.
Allegoria is extremely proud of their 1st place achievement and you can't help but notice the profound jump in their score from their last show two weeks ago at Xavier. Scoring an 84.48 there, they managed to improve the show and pull an impressive 90.71 here at Tristate. This bodes well for them as they make their final preparations for World Champs. And lets not forget Pride of Cincinnati, who (although the only world-class winter guard in attendance) scored at phenomenal 96.20. But they know that they still have a lot more work to do if they wish to beat their rival winter guard, Onyx.
That's all for now everybody! Hopefully I hear some more show announcements in the days to come. But until then, keep marching strong!
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