The Spartans for a drum corps New Hampshire Primary

As I wrote at the end of Colts, Hawkeyes, Cyclones, and Rose Parade bands, marching music for the 2024 Iowa Caucuses, my series of marching music for presidential primaries will return today with this year's version of Marching music for the New Hampshire Primary — Spartans and Londonderry High School — songs to listen and watch as my readers and I wait for results from the first-in-the-nation presidential primary in The Granite State. I begin with Spartans | #dci2022 | On The Edge.

Nashua, NH | 23rd Place | 76.600

Nashua, New Hampshire's Spartans perform a segment from the corps' #DCI2022 production, "On The Edge," during the 2022 DCI World Championships hosted August 12-14 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Flo Marching also has an official upload clip, From the Archives: Spartans 2022, 'On the Edge'.


Will the voters be "on the edge" when cast their ballots? Will they and anyone paying attention to the contest be on the edge of their seats waiting for the results? Will Nikki Haley be on the edge of dropping out if she loses big?

Now go back in time to 2018, The year Spartans made Mona Lisa smile.

Spartans performs Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" as part of the Open Class corps' 2018 production, "Da Vinci’s Workshop," at the DCI World Championship Semifinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

That was a work of art. Will people remember this campaign the same way?

Those are the official uploads. Follow over the jump for the unofficial uploads.

Moving forward, watch Spartans Open Class Prelims 2019.


The show is "Experiment X" (ten, not the letter), so would today's primary be an experiment? Maybe on the Democratic side, where the Democrats addressing their "Groundhog Day" problem by rearranging the dates of their primaries and caucuses to make them more representative has made the New Hampshire Primary not a sanctioned contest to pick delegates. On the Republican side, the experiment would be to see if anyone can beat Donald Trump. So far, the answer is no.

By the way, the Spartans won Open Class in 2019, so "Experiment X" was a success for them.

No DCI corps performed in 2020, none competed in 2021, and the Spartans never left home, but they did perform once, captured in Spartans DCI summer camp 2021 final performance.

In 2021 the DCI Spartans did not go on tour; instead, they held a series of summer camps leading up to a smaller performance for friends and family at a stadium in Nashua, NH. This is the final 3-minute performance of the excerpt they worked on as a group for three 8-hour rehearsal days.

Despite the pandemic, drum corps did not die.

I close with March or Die's DCI 2023-Spartans Drum Corps-Open Champions performance.

All of the drum corps are really getting super creative and bringing something unique and different. Spartans brought a cool concept in their "Surreal" show. It was strange, odd and really, really good! Great staging throughout the show and brought some cool visual elements to the field.

Will today's primary and the primary campaign be surreal? I think the campaign has been!

This series will return on Saturday, February 3rd, for the South Carolina Primary, the first official nominating contest for the Democrats. Stay tuned!