A happy drum corps Canada Day 2025!

Happy Canada Day! Following my regular order of presentation of Canada's drum corps, I begin with a pre-DCI performance preserved in Echoe's [sic] of the Past Side 1 1971 @ C8 Preston Scout House Wooden Soldiers & Waltzing Matilda by TJ.

While I featured the alumni corps on Canada Day 2022, I haven't embedded a video of Scout House from their competitive era since A happy drum corps Canada Day 2018 on the second Souther. It was time to do so again.

Follow over the jump for Canadian drum corps (or at least units competing in DCI) from the DCI era by decade from the 1970s to today.

Next, 1973 Canadian National Champions (tie) - De La Salle Oaklands from corecorps. Appropriately enough for today, it even begins with a patriotic montage that includes a clip of a drum corps set to "Oh, Canada."

In addition to being Canadian co-champions with La Salle Cadets, Del was a founding member of DCI (they're why the I in DCI exists) and this year's corps came in 13th in DCI Championship prelims. I'm glad corecorps uploaded this video so I could feature them.

I feel these posts are incomplete without both an all-age corps and a Quebec corps, and 1984 Les Cascadeurs - DCA Finals by corecorps is both!


Representing the 1990s and Canada's all-girl corps are 1990 Ventures Drum and Bugle Corps from Drum Corps Fan.

1990 Ventures Drum and Bugle Corps
20th Place - Buffalo, New York
Class A Champions

Ontario and Quebec can't have all the fun, so I'm sharing the first of two videos from Alberta's Marching Bands, Empire of Paradise - Allegiance Elite 2002 to kick off the 21st Century.

DCI Division II/III Prelims
11th Place
82.500

Repertoire:
Battle of the Heavens / Heartbeat of Destiny / Heartbeat of Destiny/ For the Love of a Princess by James Horner/ Peacekeepers Theme

Returning to Ontario, I'm sharing 2012 Blue Saints from DCI.



2012 Blue Saints - Diamond in the Rough
It was about time I uploaded an official video from an account I know will last. It was also time I included Blue Saints in these posts.

I conclude with the second and final video from Alberta's Marching Bands, Calgary Stampede Showband 2023 WAMSB Finals "Sonic Playground", to bring this post up to the present day.

I do not own this. All credit goes to the World Association of Marching Show Bands.

Calgary Stampede Showband 2023: Sonic Playground

Repertoire:
Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian/ Sensemaya by Silvestre Revueltas/ Sing Sang Sung by Gordon Goodwin/ Big Noise From Winnetka by Bob Crosby/ Once Upon Another Time by Sara Bareilles/ Candid Overture by Leonard Bernstein/

"The stage presents a space for audio and visual exploration using the vivid imagination of a youthful experience on a playground. Swings, Slides, Teeter-Totters, and Jungle Gym relate directly to the sonic offering. Overall, the program will present a range of emotions associated with innocence, whimsy, and adventure."

AWARDS:
WAMSB 2023 Drum Line Battle 1st Place
WAMSB 2023 Street Parade 3rd Place
WAMSB 2023 Auxiliary/Color Guard 2nd Place
WAMSB 2023 Outstanding Drum Major 1st Place
WAMSB 2023 Field Show Finals 1st Place

1st Place
96.944

The Calgary Stampede Showband isn't a drum corps, but they competed as an international corps in 2022, which I featured in the 2023 installment of this series.

This concludes the tenth installment of this series and the celebration of the first of three patriotic holidays in July I observe on this blog, so "it's time to recycle San. It wouldn't be one of my Canada Day posts without her."