Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps

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Vanguard Cadets
Drum Corps
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Location Santa Clara, CA
DivisionOpen Class
Founded1971
DirectorRafael Bretado
Championship titlesDCI Division II' 2000
Open Class, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018
Website scvanguard.org/vanguard_cadets/

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum Corps, known as SCVC or simply as the Vanguard Cadets, is an Open Class competitive junior drum corps. Based in Santa Clara, California, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International (DCI) and is the "B" corps of the World Class (formerly Division I) Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. [1] On August 7, 2018, the Vanguard Cadets won their sixth DCI Open Class Championship title. [2]

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History

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets were formed in 1971 as a cadet feeder and training corps for the rapidly developing Santa Clara Vanguard. Starting out as a parade corps, by the middle of the Seventies, the corps had become a field corps that was more cute than competitive, but by the end of that decade, the Vanguard Cadets had become a truly competitive Class A corps within the West Coast region. The corps did its first major touring in 1990, going as far east as Dallas and Tulsa. In 1991, the corps traveled all the way to Marion, Ohio for the U.S. Open before attending its first DCI World Championships in Dallas, where it placed fourth of nineteen Class A corps, and advanced to Open Class prelims, finishing twenty-seventh of twenty-nine corps. In 1993, the corps became the first cadet corps to achieve DCI membership. In 2000, the Vanguard Cadets would again travel to the Drum Corps International World Championships. They would become the first feeder corps to win a championship in their division (then Division II, now Open Class). This corps would also qualify for the Division I (now World Class) Semi-Finals. This would also be the first time an organization would have a corps and their feeder corps in the Semi-Finals together. The corps has traveled to both Open Class and World Class championships every year since 2011. Despite their cadet corps status, the Vanguard Cadets won their division in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018. [3]

On September 5, 2018, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, BD Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that the Vanguard Cadets "will be restructured as a California-based drum corps" and that both SCVC and the Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps would not be attending DCI Open Class Championships in 2019. [4] [5]

Sponsorship

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA), [6] a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Charles Frost was named the Executive Director on August 23, 2016. The parent organization also sponsors the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. [7] Since early 2022, Vanguard Cadets have also been partnering with Southwest Airlines. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Vanguard Cadets piece together gold medal-winning comeback". Drum Corps International. August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ "History for Vanguard Cadets". Maher & Associates, Inc./corpsreps.com. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ "VANGUARD CADETS LAUNCH CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE". Vanguard Music & Performing Arts. September 5, 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Blue Devils B, Vanguard Cadets plan regional tours for 2019".
  6. ↑ "Santa Clara Vanguard Changes Name, Launches Capital Giving Campaign". The Santa Clara Weekly. March 31, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Santa Clara Vanguard Programs". Vanguard Music and Performing Arts. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Partnerships". Vanguard Music and Performing Arts. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
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