2020 Audition Experience Camps Come to a Close
This past Saturday marked the final event in a string of four Audition Experience Camps operated by the Bluecoats in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, and California. Nearly 1,000 students from North America, Asia, and Europe collectively traveled hundreds of thousands of miles in the hopes of earning a spot in the 2020 Bluecoats.
“Every year it really is humbling, seeing them pour out of the airport with their drumsticks or horns in tow,” said Mike Scott, CEO of Bluecoats. “We’re honored time and again by the sheer number of high school and college students who want to be a part of the corps. Hundreds of these students are just hoping to spend a weekend with us and get a glimpse of the ‘Bluecoats Experience.’”
At our Audition Experience Camps we distribute many contracts and callbacks, but the corps will be set during the invite-only callback camp on January 3-5 in Canton. This will officially start the Bluecoats 2020 season! We won’t see the color guard again until our full corps rehearsal camp in Canton on April 24-26 which is when the color guard roster will be set.
But our goal isn’t only to audition these Bluecoat-hopefuls, “We design our Audition Experience Camps to be an educational experience more than anything,” said Mike Scott, CEO of Bluecoats. “The goal is that any student that attends these clinics has a fun, challenging, and rewarding experience. We want every student who encounters Bluecoats’ programming to have the same world-class ‘Bluecoats Experience’ that we provide the members of the drum corps.”
If you’re already looking forward to the 2020 season (we sure are), you can start buying tickets for our 2020 tour! Our tour includes three major Bluecoats-run shows and tickets are available now for all of them! Innovations In Brass: Canton takes place June 20th at Robert Fife Stadium (Jackson MS), Innovations in Brass: Pittsburgh takes place June 24 at Antimarino Stadium in Pittsburgh, and the Tour of Champions: Akron, presented by the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, is the last “regular season” drum corps event of 2020, taking place at Infocision Stadium at the University of Akron on August 3rd. Tickets are available now at bluecoats.com/threegreatshow!
