Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps explained

The Blue Devils
Location:Concord, California, United States
Division:World Class
Founded:1957
Director:Patrick Seidling
Directortitle1:Senior Executive Advisor
Director1:David Gibbs
Directortitle2:Chief Executive Officer
Director2:Jim Verrett
Titles:

The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Concord, California. The Blue Devils are members of Drum Corps International (DCI).[1] They have finished in first, second, or third place since 2006, and have placed no lower than fifth since 1992. They also hold the record for the highest score in DCI history, winning the 2014 DCI World Championships with a score of 99.65.[2] The Blue Devils hold a record of twenty-one titles to date.

History

In 1957, Tony and Ann Odello and the Concord VFW post assumed control of the Martinettes, a defunct drum corps and drill team. They reorganized the unit as the Blue Devils. Initially, the group performed as an all-boy drum corps with an all-girl drill team. In 1958, the Blue Devils added glockenspiels, becoming a drum and bell corps, while the girls became a separate baton twirling troupe, the Majorettes. The two units continued to perform together, winning numerous state and local competitions between 1957 and 1970. In 1961, the Blue Devils added a flag section to the unit that was then competing in the state's Junior division. In 1968, the drum and bell corps moved into Senior Division competition, and the new junior corps, Blue Devils B, was founded.

In 1970, a group of buglers was added to the Blue Devils drums and flags, and the corps entered its first competition as the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. By 1972, the unit, now with over seventy members, advanced from Class B competition to Class A and traveled on tour outside California for the first time. The summer of 1973 marked the Blue Devils first national tour and their first appearance at the Drum Corps International World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The younger Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps was also formed in 1973. In 1976, the Blue Devils won the first of the corps' twenty-one DCI World Championship titles.

Over the years, the Devils have often made use of jazz and Latin music repertoires, notably Bill Reddie's Channel One Suite (made famous by Buddy Rich) and charts from the music of Chick Corea and Chuck Mangione and that written for Stan Kenton's big band.[3] [4] [5] [6]

In 2014, the Blue Devils won their sixteenth DCI World Championship. At the DCI Finals in Indianapolis on August 9, the corps received a record high score of 99.650.[7] The Blue Devils are also the only corps to have crossed the 99-point threshold twice in DCI World Championship history, achieving a 99.050 in 2009, and a 99.650 in 2014.

In the Blue Devils' 2017 program, voiceovers were used from a newly-discovered audio tape recording of the late former director Jerry Seawright addressing the crowd at the Blue Devils' first appearance as a drum and bugle corps in 1972.[8] [9]

In 2023, the Blue Devils claimed their first Three-Peat in the corps’ history. After winning in 2019, 2022 and now its third title in a row, the corps reached a DCI Title “Three-Peat”. The Cadets and The Cavaliers are the only other World Class corps to reach such a feat in Drum Corps International history.

Sponsorship

See main article: article and BD Performing Arts. The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by BD Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) musical organization.[10]

BD Performing Arts also sponsors the Blue Devils B, the Blue Devils C, the Blue Devils Open Class and A Class Winter Guards programs, the Diablo Wind Symphony, and BD Entertainment.

In 2015, BD Performing Arts added the Blue Devils International Corps, a 97-member unit made up of alumni of the Blue Devils and 8 other DCI World Class corps. The corps spent more than a month traveling and performing in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Switzerland, concluding with 9 days and 15 performances of their show at the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland.[11] A similar tour was planned for 2020, with stops in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]

Show summary (1972–2024)

Source:[13]

style="background-color:#add8e6"
Pale blue background indicates DCI World Class Finalist
Dark gold background indicates DCI World Class Champion
YearRepertoire
Score Placement
1972 Did not attend
World Championships
1973 Chant and Jubilo by W. Francis McBeth / Jupiter (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst / Ave Maria by Franz Schubert / This Could Be the Start of Something Big by Steve Allen / Miserlou (Traditional), adapted by Nicholas Roubanis / Caravan by Juan Tizol / Morning of the Carnival by Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria66.100 24th Place
Open Class
1974 79.150 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1975 Space Shuttle by John LaBarbera / Love's Been Gone So Long by Bruce Conte / What Is Hip by Emilio Castillo & Stephen Kupka / Squib Cakes by Chester Thompson / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor, Feel of a Vision & Chase the Clouds Away by Chuck Mangione88.600 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1976 Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor & Chase the Clouds Away by Chuck Mangione92.700 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1977 92.050 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1978 Chicago III Suite (Canon by James Pankow; Mother by Robert Lamm; Once Upon a Time by James Pankow & Free by Robert Lamm), adapted by Stan Kenton / Spanish Fantasy by Chick Corea / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor by Chuck Mangione91.200 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1979 93.550 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1980 90.600 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1981 New York Fantasy by Wayne Downey / Ya Gotta Try by Sammy Nestico / La Danse du Bonheur by John McLaughlin & L. Shankar / One More Time Chuck Corea by Gene Puerling / Johnny One Note (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / Dindi by Antônio Carlos Jobim & Aloísio de Oliveira, adapted by Ray Gilbert93.700 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1982 95.250 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1983 T.O. by Rob McConnell / Everybody Loves the Blues by Maynard Ferguson & Nick Lane / Paradox by Kerry Livgren & Steve Walsh / One More Time Chuck Corea by Gene Puerling / A New Beginning by Wayne Downey 93.800 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1984 97.900 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1985 97.100 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1986 Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Conquistador by Jay Chattaway & Maynard Ferguson / Spanish Fantasy & Chick Corea Suite by Chick Corea98.400 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1987 Spanish Dreams
Fanfare for the New by Hugo Montenegro / Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers / Echidna's Arf (Of You) by Frank Zappa / Free by James Pankow / Spanish Dreams by Phil Kelly
94.400 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1988 96.300 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1989 Ya Gotta Try by Sammy Nestico / If We Were In Love (from Yes, Giorgio) by John Williams, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman / Allegre by Claude Bolling / Johnny One Note (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart95.900 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1990 Selections from Tommy
Sparks, See Me Feel Me, Tommy Can You Hear Me, Pinball Wizard, Underture, Listening To You & Overture Finale
All from Tommy by Pete Townshend (The Who)
95.300 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1991 93.800 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1992 95.400 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
1993 A Don Ellis Portrait
Open Wide & Great Divide by Don Ellis / Chain Reaction by Hank Levy / Strawberry Soup & Niner-Two by Don Ellis
95.100 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
1994 My Spanish Heart
Spanish Fantasy, Part 1; Night Streets; Day Danse; My Spanish Heart & Spanish Fantasy, Part 4
All from My Spanish Heart by Chick Corea
98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
1995 Carpe Noctem
Buleria (from Jazz Pana) by Vince Mendoza / Conquistador by Jay Chattaway & Maynard Ferguson / Coronation of the Dead Queen, Mvt. 4 & Ines, Mvt. 2 (from The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski / No Heroes by Rick Tait / Commencement (from Adventures in Time) by Johnny Richards / Caribe (from One More Once) by Michel Camilo / Day Danse by Chick Corea / Dom Pedro's Revenge, Mvt. 5 (from The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski
96.700 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
1996 97.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
1997 98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
1998 97.700 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
1999 98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
2000 96.900 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
2001 97.600 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist
2002 Jazz: Music Made in America
Ragtime, adapted by Randy Newman / I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy) & Fascinating Rhythm by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / House of the Rising Sun (Traditional) / Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie
97.300 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist
2003 98.800 1st Place
Division I
Champion
2004 98.525 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist
2005 95.250 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
2006 The Godfather, Part BLUE
Selections from The Godfather by Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola / Symphony No. 6 by Carl Dine / Two Symphonic Movements by Václav Nelhýbel / Symphony No. 1 by William Alwyn / La Doma (from Estancia) by Alberto Ginastera / La Strada by Nino Rota
96.550 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
2007 98.000 1st Place
Division I
Champion
2008 98.100 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2009 1930
Get Happy by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler / Happy Days Are Here Again by Milton Ager & Jack Yellen / Playing Love (from The Legend of 1900) by Ennio Morricone / Piano Variations by Aaron Copland / Rialto Ripples by George Gershwin / I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy) by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / The Strength of the Righteous (from The Untouchables) by Ennio Morricone / Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin / Caravan by Juan Tizol / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
99.050 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2010 Through a Glass Darkly
City of Glass Suite by Bob Graettinger / Conflict & Mirage by Pete Rugolo / Trajectories by Franklyn Marks / Incident In Jazz by Bob Graettinger / Laura by David Raksin & Johnny Mercer / La Suerte de los Tontos by Johnny Richards
98.900 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2011 97.800 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2012 Cabaret Voltaire
Harmonielehre by John Adams / Morrison Mania by James Horner / The Children's Hour of Dream by Charles Mingus / Symphonies: V by Andre Souris / Bird and Bela in B Flat by Don Sebesky / Gymnopédies by Erik Satie / Ballet Mécanique by George Antheil / Peppy and George (from The Artist) by Ludovic Bource / Dr. Bones by Steve Perry / New Arrival by Danny Elfman / Tevot by Thomas Ades / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
98.700 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2013 The Re:Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / The Rite of Spring by Don Sebesky / The ReWrite of Spring by Darryl Brenzel
98.050 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2014 Felliniesque
Act 1 – Fellini's Religion: Old Toys (from Iris) by Danny Elfman / La Strada Theme by Nino Rota
Act 2 – Fellini's Circus: The Clowns by Nino Rota / Circo Compagnia by Gordon Goodwin
Act 3 – Fellini's Fantasy: Be Italian (from Nine) by Maury Yeston / Movie Studio (from Iris) by Danny Elfman
99.650 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2015 Ink
Dark Forest by Dave Glyde / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd & The Giant Attack (from Into the Woods) by Stephen Sondheim / The Mad Hatter's Tea Party by Gordon Goodwin / I Like You by J.Y. Park (GOT7) / Children Will Listen & Last Midnight (from Into the Woods) by Stephen Sondheim
97.650 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2016 As Dreams Are Made On
Cape Fear (Prelude) by Bernard Herrmann / Stormy Weather by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler / Ariel Attack by Gordon Goodwin / Where Are Ü Now by Sonny Moore, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Karl Rubin Brutus & Jordan Ware / Main Title (from The Impossible) by Fernando Velázquez / Prospero's Magic by Dave Glyde / Mishima by Philip Glass
97.250 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
201798.538 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2018 Dreams and Nighthawks
Laura by David Raksin & Johnny Mercer / Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers / Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson / Natural Woman by Gerry Goffin, Carole King & Jerry Wexler / Jacob’s Bakery by James Newton Howard / City Noir by John Adams / Blade Hawks by Simon Dobson / Night Runner by Paul Lovatt-Cooper / Gotham City by Dave Glyde / Konakkol Duet by Vidwan B. R. Somasheker Jois & Kumari V. Shivapriya / Playing Love (from The Legend of 1900) by Ennio Morricone
97.350 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2019 98.325 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Other Worlds
Selections from 2017–2019 productions / Killing Me by Boris Brejcha
(The Blue Devils did not perform live at DCI events in 2021)
No scored competitions
2022 98.750 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2023The Cut Outs
Proverb by Steve Reich / The Rise by Dave Glyde / Caves by Cody Fry / Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Tominaga, Fujibayashi, Tanaka / Stardust Crusaders (Jotaro's Theme) by Yugo Kanno / Resistance by Dave Glyde / Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell / Of Energy by TesseracT / Incident In Jazz by Bob Graettinger / Grand Canyon Fanfare by James Newton Howard
98.975 1st Place
World Class
Champion
202497.0753rd Place
World Class
Finalist

Caption awards

At the annual World Championship Finals, Drum Corps International (DCI) presents awards to the corps with the high average scores from prelims, semifinals, and finals in five captions. The Blue Devils have won these caption awards:[14]

Don Angelica Best General Effect Award

John Brazale Best Visual Performance Award

George Zingali Best Color Guard Award

Jim Ott Best Brass Performance Award

Fred Sanford Best Percussion Performance Award

Prior to 2000 and the adoption of the current scoring format, the Blue Devils won these captions:

High General Effect Award

High Visual Award

High Color Guard Award

High Brass Award

High Percussion Award

Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps

The Blue Devils "B"
Drum and Bugle Corps
Location:Concord, CA
Division:Open Class
Founded:1968
Director:Lainey Braatz
Titles:

The Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps are an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Concord, California. The corps is a member of Drum Corps International and has grown from a feeder corps for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps to a full-fledged Drum Corps in its own right. The corps has won the DCI Open Class World Championship five times.[15]

History

In 1968, the original Blue Devils corps moved up from B Class competition to A Class, and the Blue Devils B was started as a younger cadet corps. In 1973, the Blue Devils B converted from a drum and bell corps to a drum and bugle corps.[16]

As a cadet corps, the unit performed for years almost exclusively on the West Coast. Only when the World Championships were held in Pasadena, California did the Blue Devils B become a regular competitor in the Division II & III (now Open Class) Championships. The Blue Devils B won the first of three consecutive Open Class World Championships in Indianapolis in 2009. In 2011, the corps also competed in World Class preliminaries, finishing in 19th place and earning membership in DCI.

On September 5, 2018, BD Performing Arts, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that the Blue Devils B had "decided to travel and compete only in California for the 2019 season" and that both the Blue Devils B and the Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps would not attend DCI Open Class Championships in 2019.[17] [18]

Show summary (1977–2024)

Source:[19]

style="background-color:#afeeee"
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist
Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
YearRepertoire
Score Placement
1977Repertoires unavailable 39.050 19th Place
Class A
197841.010 14th Place
Class A
1979–80Did not attend
World Championships
1981Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona / Ozark by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny / Sphinx's Lair (Unknown) / Home (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / Antioch Fantasy by Jim McFarland
1982Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona / Samba de Haps by Mark Taylor
1983–88 Repertoires unavailable
1989Suncats (Unknown) / Night Flight by Steve Robertson & Terry Shalberg
1990
199184.300 4th Place
Class A60
1992Payload (Unknown) / Night of the Capricorn Moon by Mike Vax / Bossa Corona by Bill Wiedrich Did not attend
World Championships
1993
1994Baroque Samba by Darmon Meader / Space Shuttle by John LaBarbera / Now or Never by Caprice Fox, Darmon Meader, Kim Nazarian, Peter DeRose, Peter Eldridge & Sara Krieger (New York Voices)
1995Selections from the Mambo Kings
1996
1997 Nutville by Horace Silver / Guaguancó by Arturo Sandoval / Night of the Capricorn Moon by Mike Vax / Minuano by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays / Scott and Fran's Paso Doble (from Strictly Ballroom) by David Hirschfelder 86.000 bgcolor=#AFEEEE 4th Place
Division II
Finalist
1998 There's No Place Like Home
The Wiz Medley & Believe in Yourself (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / On Dangerous Ground Medley by Bernard Herrmann / Witches' Themes (from the Wizard of Oz) by Herbert Stothart / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz / Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg / So You Want to See The Wizard, Home & Brand New day (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
Did not attend
World Championships
1999
2000Music of Chicago
Make Me Smile by James Pankow / 25 or 6 to 4 & Beginnings by Robert Lamm / Call on Me by Lee Loughnane
2001
2002
2003Chronometry: The Study of Time
The First Circle by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays / Letter From Home by Pat Metheny / Kinetic by Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway & Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
2004Blue Fusion: The Music of the New York Voices and Pat Metheney
Baroque Samba by Darmon Meader / The Sultan Fainted by Darmon Meader & Peter Eldridge / Third Wind by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny / Letter From Home by Pat Metheny / Minuano by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny
88.375 bgcolor=#AFEEEE 7th Place
Division II
Finalist
20053 Generations
Grandparents, Parents & Children
All by John Meehan
Did not attend
World Championships
2006Chain Reactions
Fission by John Meehan, Vinnie Angelo & Mark Higgenbotham / Propagation & Mutual Excitation by John Meehan & Vinnie Angelo / Fusion by John Meehan, Vinnie Angelo & Mark Higgenbotham
89.350 bgcolor=#AFEEEE 6th Place
Division II
Finalist
200790.875 bgcolor=#AFEEEE 4th Place
Division II
Finalist
2008Flight
Flight by John Meehan & John Mackey / Turbine by John Mackey / Through the Night, Turbulence & Final Approach and Landing by John Meehan & John Mackey
96.775 bgcolor=#AFEEEE 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
200995.500 bgcolor=#FCC200 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
2010Space
Introduction and March & Battle: Planning the Attack; Return Fire & The Last Missile (from Interstellar Suite) by Amin Bhatia / Lux Arumque by Eric Whitacre / Aha! by Imogen Heap / Original Music by John Meehan
97.550 bgcolor=#FCC200 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
2011Syncronicity
Synchronicity I by Sting / Kaleidoscope Heart by Sara Bareilles / Murder by Numbers by Sting / Krump by Scott McAllister / Synchronicity II by Sting / Original Music by John Meehan
95.000 bgcolor=#FCC200 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
76.450bgcolor=#d0f0c0 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2012 Ecstatic Waters
Ecstatic Waters by Steven Bryant / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey / Over the Edge, Splashdown & River's End by John Meehan, Brian Dinkle & John Mapes
93.850 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
73.600bgcolor=#d0f0c0 21st Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2013Warped
Dom Pedro's Revenge (5th Mvt. of The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski / Bizarro by Michael Daugherty / Serenada Schizophrana by Danny Elfman / Original Music by John Meehan
95.700 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
77.950bgcolor=#d0f0c0 20th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2014 Noir [nuvo]
Young and Beautiful (from The Great Gatsby) by Lana Del Rey / Brute Force (from The Naked City) by Miklós Rózsa / Theme (from The Usual Suspects) by John Ottman / Children's Hour of Dreams by Charles Mingus / Asphalt Cocktail by John Mackey / Film Noir/Pursuit (from Iris) by Danny Elfman
82.650 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
82.325bgcolor=#d0f0c0 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2015 80.325 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
77.175bgcolor=#d0f0c0 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
201679.900 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
83.325bgcolor=#d0f0c0 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2017 79.625 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
80.050bgcolor=#d0f0c0 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2018 79.600 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
80.037bgcolor=#d0f0c0 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2019 Re:Calling
1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass / Hello by Lionel Richie / Phrygian Gates by John Adams / Visionary by Ken Froelich
Did not attend
World Championships
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Opted out of competition for the season
2022I AM
Original Music by John Meehan, Sean Clark & Chavadith Tantavirojn
81.5883rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
78.375bgcolor=#d0f0c0 22nd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2023Fathers of Electricity
Original Music by John Meehan, Sean Clark & Chavadith Tantavirojn
Did not attend
World Championships
202482.4752nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
81.07520th Place
World Class
Semifinalist

Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps

The Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps are an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corp and a feeder corps for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps.[20]

As a junior cadet corps, with members aged 8–14, the unit for many years performed only as a parade and exhibition unit, not entering actual competition. The corps began entering field competitions in 2001, but the corps still performs almost exclusively on the West Coast.

Show summary (1995–2023)

Source:[21]

YearRepertoire
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001 Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Cantina Band (from Star Wars), Star Wars & Somewhere in My Memory
All by John Williams
2002
2003
2004
2005 Repertoire unavailable
2006 Nightmare in Blue
Repertoire unavailable
2007
2008 WOZ
Ease on Down the Road (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / We're Off to See the Wizard, Over the Rainbow & If I Only Had a Brain (from The Wizard of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg / Brand New day (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
2009 ClassiCool
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini / Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns / Carmen by Georges Bizet
2010 Voyage at C
Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan & W. S. Gilbert / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor by Chuck Mangione / Eternal Father Strong To Save by John B. Dykes & William Whiting / Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me by George Bruns & Xavier Atencio / Original Music by John Meehan
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017 Come Fly With Me
Married Life by Michael Giacchino / Come Fly With Me by Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn / Learn to Fly by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins & Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) / Danger Zone by Giorgio Moroder & Tom Whitlock / Staying Alive by Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb & Barry Gibb (Bee Gees)
2018 Candyland: Part Blue!
"I Want Candy" by Bert Berns, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer (The Strangeloves) / Sugar Sugar by Jeff Barry & Andy Kim (The Archies) / Stuck Like Glue by Jennifer Nettles & Kristian Bush (Sugarland); Kevin Griffin & Shy Carter / Sugar, We're Goin Down by Pete Wentz & Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)
2019
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Opted out of competition for the season
2022 It's About Time!
Dr. Who Theme by Ron Grainer / What Time Is It? by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil / Don't Stop Me Now by Freddie Mercury / My Life Would Suck Without You by Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald & Claude Kelly
2023 BD-Cafari
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses / Africa by David Paich & Jeff Porcaro / Eye of the Tiger by Frankie Sullivan & Jim Peterik / Roar by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee & Henry Walter
2024

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Blue Devils . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221217205808/https://www.dci.org/corps/blue-devils . 17 December 2022 . 17 December 2022 . Drum Corps International.
  2. Web site: 9 April 2015 . Past DCI World Champions . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170810091819/http://www.dci.org/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=210014725&DB_OEM_ID=33500&DB_OEM_ID=33500 . 10 August 2017 . 9 August 2017 . Drum Corps International.
  3. Drum Corps World, June 17, 1988
  4. Drum Corps World, January 2003
  5. Drum Corps World, August 6, 2004
  6. A History of Drum & Bugle Corps, Vol. 2; Steve Vickers, ed.; Drum Corps World, pub.; 2003
  7. Web site: Bender . Kristin J. . 11 August 2014 . Concord's Blue Devils drum corps wins 16th world title . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005951/http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_26313317/concords-blue-devils-drum-corps-win-16th-world . 5 March 2016 . 11 August 2014 . ContraCostaTimes.com.
  8. Web site: 6 August 2017 . Corps news and announcements (Blue Devils) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220704053737/https://www.dci.org/news/corps-news-and-announcements-447 . 4 July 2022 . 15 May 2018 . Drum Corps International.
  9. Web site: 29 July 2017 . 2017 - BD360 Moments - Jerry Seawright . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220810115520/https://bluedevils.org/programs/a-corps/seasons/?module=videos&season=2017&assetID=83245 . 10 August 2022 . 15 May 2018 . BD Performing Arts.
  10. Web site: BD Performing Arts . BD Performing Arts Staff . June 9, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150609094900/http://bluedevils.org/staff/ . June 9, 2015 . dead .
  11. Web site: 3 May 2015 . Blue Devils International coming to the UK . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221215072531/https://www.dcuk.org.uk/news/news_15014.html . 15 December 2022 . 9 June 2015 . Drum Corps United Kingdom.
  12. Web site: Blue Devils International Corps . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221217210758/https://bluedevils.org/programs/international-corps/ . 17 December 2022 . 17 December 2022 . BD Performing Arts.
  13. Web site: Blue Devils/Repertoire . DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience . 1 March 2018.
  14. Web site: Caption Winners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625145239/https://fromthepressbox.com/captionwinners . 25 June 2022 . 2022-08-14 . fromthepressbox.com.
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