Lake Erie Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps

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Lake Erie Regiment
Drum & Bugle Corps
Location Erie, PA
DivisionDivision III
Founded1982/1993
Disbanded2006

Lake Erie Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps is an inactive/defunct Open Class (competed as a Division III unit) competitive junior drum and bugle corps that formerly performed in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions. [1] Although the drum corps has not been in competition since 2005, the organization, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, remains active, sponsoring an Independent A class winter guard that competes in Winter Guard International (WGI) and the affiliated Three Rivers Winter Ensemble Association (TRWEA). [2] The annual Lake Erie Fanfare DCI competition that premiered in 1983, ten years before the corps entered competition, is still held each summer. [3]

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History

Lake Erie Fanfare was founded in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1982 with two express purposes; hosting a local DCI drum and bugle competition and sponsoring a local junior drum corps. The 1st Annual Lake Erie Fanfare, a Drum Corps East show featuring five corps was held on July 10, 1983 and was won by the Garfield Cadets. [4] The founding of a drum corps took longer.

In 1993, the Excaliber senior corps from Erie, which had been largely inactive for several years, folded and donated some drums and bugles and the corps' truck to Lake Erie Fanfare in order to help start the long-planned junior corps. [1] The Lake Erie Regiment made its debut in the summer of 1993, marching in several parades and performing a number of stand-still exhibitions, including one at the 11th Annual Lake Erie Fanfare, a DCI show won by the Blue Devils. The following season, the corps entered competition in DCI and Drum Corps East (later known as DCI Atlantic). In 1999, the corps won the Division III titles at both the DCI Atlantic Championships and the Canadian Nationals Championship and advanced to the DCI Division III Finals. Although not as successful in 2000, Lake Erie Regiment repeated as Canadian Nationals champion. In 2001, the corps switched from DCI Atlantic to Drum Corps Midwest. The corps skipped DCI Championships in 2003–04, but returned to DCI Division III Finals in 2005. Although Lake Erie Regiment announced its program for 2006, it did not field that year and has not done so since. [5]

Sponsorship

Lake Erie Regiment is sponsored by Lake Erie Fanfare, Inc., a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) musical organization.

Show Summary (1994-2005)

Source: [6]

YearThemeRepertoireScorePlacement
1994BeginningsRepertoire unavailableExhibition corps
1995The Lion KingThis Land by Hans Zimmer / Be Prepared by Elton John and Tim Rice / Under the Stars, King of Pride Rock & To Die For by Hans Zimmer / Circle of Life by Elton John and Tim Rice
All from The Lion King		60.50028th Division III
1996Sinfonia VociSinfonia Voci by David Holsinger / Requiem Aeternam by John Rutter / Festival Sanctus by John Leavitt / Dies Irae by Gabe Kocevar and Chris Hestin66.70015th Division III
1997Songs of the SeaFanfare (from Victory at Sea) by Richard Rodgers / Seascape Overture by David Bobrowitz / Drunken Sailor (Traditional) / On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David Holsinger / The Storm by Richard Rodgers
1998Voyage to a New BeginningThe Sea Hawk by Erich Wolfgang Korngold / New World Symphony by Antonín Dvořák / Selections from Riverdance by Bill Whelan 83.70011th Division III
1999The Undaunted SpiritImages by Robert Sheldon / Doyen by Goff Richards / Lost Colony by Robert Sheldon / Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew by James Curnow 82.7008th Division III
2000Awaken the SpiritCall of the Mountain (from Gates of Gold) / Forgiveness / Joy (from Awakening) / Adelina de Maya
All by Joseph Curiale 		81.3509th Division III
2001Russian FantasyRussian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Glière / No One Like You by David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith / Vandergrift Suite (Movement I) by Shaun Owens / Roll Tide (from Crimson Tide) by Hans Zimmer / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed 76.0508th Division III
2002FirebirdFirebird Suite by Igor Stravinski 70.40016th Division III
2003A New WorldNew World Symphony by Antonín Dvořák
2004Voices at the CrossroadsRepertoire unavailable
2005Music of David HolsingerGmyway's Revenge / On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss / At the Strongholds of En Gedi
All by David Holsinger		77.5009th Division III

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References

  1. 1 2 "History for Lake Erie Regiment". Maher Associates, Inc. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "TRWEA MEMBERSHIP". TRWEA. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ "competitions". Lake Erie Regiment. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Erie, PA". Maher Associates, Inc. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Lake Erie Regiment. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Song History for Lake Erie Regiment". Maher Associates, Inc. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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