Press Room

About Bluecoats

Bluecoats creates performing arts experiences that inspire, educate, and promote excellence as we enrich the lives of young people, and those who encounter their art. Known for the world-renowned Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, the organization offers music education programming around the world, and in it’s hometown of Canton, OH. In 2023 Bluecoats and its affiliate EN-RICH-MENT built the $2mm EN-RICH-MENT Arts Education Center to provide free after-school, summer, and weekend music, arts, and life-skills classes to the young people of Stark County. Learn more here.

Press Notes

Attending rehearsals of Bluecoats programs

Media coverage of Bluecoats rehearsals is tightly controlled. Media will only be allowed access to rehearsals, including photography and videography, with prior approval of the Bluecoats CEO or CFO/COO. Attendance as a media representative requires proper credentials distributed by the Bluecoats administration. Such credentials are non-transferrable and valid only for the authorized date and location. For rehearsal access permission, please write press@bluecoats.com. We cannot field requests for permission via phone or fax, or from any other email address. If you are on-site at a Bluecoats rehearsal and wish to obtain media access, please visit the administration bus. Any media personnel found on rehearsal property without the proper credential will be asked to leave.

Copyright and licensing of material rehearsed and performed by Bluecoats programs

Most of the material that you will see Bluecoats rehearsing and performing is covered under various expressed copyrights. Bluecoats has obtained the licensing to arrange and perform any third-party works, but such licensing extends only to our public performances, and in some cases, our own uploading and/or streaming. Bluecoats makes no claim of responsibility for media coverage that violates the rights of copyright holders of our work. It is the media’s responsibility to use b-roll, rehearsal footage, performance footage, and imagery responsibly and with the proper licensing and attribution. Furthermore, Bluecoats reserves all rights to its own brand, and to the creative work it owns including its shows and creative content. All coverage using footage and photography owned by Bluecoats requires proper attribution.

Naming

Always refer to the organization as “Bluecoats,” singular, with no article, ie ‘Bluecoats is a non-profit organization.”

Refer to our drum corps as “the Bluecoats” or “the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps.”

Attribution

When using a Bluecoats brand asset always place this at the bottom of the page:

©2021-26 Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc. All rights reserved. Bluecoats and logos of Bluecoats are trademarks of Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc.

When using imagery of a Bluecoats production or program always place this at the bottom of the page:

©2021-26 Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps, Inc. All rights reserved.