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Monday Memory: When Easter Weekend meant a Bus Trip to Drill Camp!
30 years ago this past weekend, the Bluecoats were coming off their 5th consecutive Easter Weekend Drill Camp. In 1990 the corps returned to 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore, Maryland, where they had first come in 1986. The idea of “hitting the road” for a drill camp was something that (then) Director Ted Swaldo liked as a way to do a dry run on touring to get the kinks out six weeks before setting out on Summer Tour for real. In the first few years, the corps did standstill performances in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tourist destination before hundreds of downtown spectators.
Monday Memory: A Day off? Try 14!
Three decades earlier, the Bluecoats tour schedule looks the same — and yet totally different. Spring Training? Not a thing. Days off? Yep, in between tours including a two week break!
Monday Memory: Up and Coming Corps squashed by a bug?
In just the third competitive season after being officially formed in the winter of 1972, the Bluecoats were the talk of the town… and the nation. Operating in the lower division, known as Class A at the time, the Bluecoats were cleaning up. Newspapers were touting the corps as a “comer” ready to burst among the nation’s best.
Monday Memory: Innovations IN BRASS through the years
This past weekend the Bluecoats hosted Innovations IN BRASS at the same location where the first show began in 1974. Hoover High School provided a lively stage for a drum corps show. As one of DCI’s longest running sponsored shows, Innovations has had a unique history.