Boston Crusaders 'Animal Farm' for a drum corps May Day

A happy drum corps May Day on Flashback Friday. For today's drum corps holiday retrospective, I'm following up on a suggestion I included in my response to a comment on 1979 Santa Clara Vanguard's maypole in motion for a drum corps May Day to use Boston Crusaders "Animal Farm." I think its time has come. Watch The Controversy Series, Part 2... 2014 Boston Crusaders by Marching Arts Network TV.

In part 2 of this series exploring controversy in DCI, we take a close look at the Boston Crusaders, and specifically the time they decided to call out DCI to their faces... some would say at the cost of competitive success!

I am quite familiar with "Napoleon's" proposals. I wrote for Drum Corps World from 1996 to 2008 and wrote two articles about them. One led directly to the other and the outcome disgusted me. Both also led to the G7 proposal, so I wasn't surprised it elicited such a public backlash. CNN even reported on it! "Napoleon" wanted more mainstream media attention for the activity and he got it, twice. He should have been more careful what he wished for.

I was feeling like posting this show for today at least one month ago. Then I found out that a new Animal Farm movie is being released today. Watch Animal Farm | Official Final Trailer | Andy Serkis | In Theaters Now | Angel.

We're about to change the rules.
Animal Farm — A Cautionary Tail. Takes over theaters May 1, 2026.
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Starring Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Jim Parsons, Andy Serkis, Kathleen Turner & Iman Vellani

Perfect timing!

Follow over the jump for last year's top posts featuring drum corps, nearly all of which were also top posts on Facebook.