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Bluecoats Will Perform Halftime at NFL Hall of Fame Game Next Month
In a press release issued this morning, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the 2019 halftime act for the NFL Hall of Fame Game, and it’s an act you might recognize! On August 1st, when the Broncos and the Falcons face off in Canton at the annual pre-season NFL game - the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps will entertain the crowd at halftime with their 2019 production The BLUECOATS!
“Each summer we leave Canton and take our show to audiences all over the United States. It’s so exciting that this year we get to bring something as special as this years’ show right to the most exciting event in our hometown!” said Mike Scott, CEO of Bluecoats. The Pro Football Hall of Fame and Bluecoats both share Canton as a hometown, and both organizations cite “excellence” as a core characteristic in their mission and statements.
Monday Memory: Up and Coming Corps squashed by a bug?
In just the third competitive season after being officially formed in the winter of 1972, the Bluecoats were the talk of the town… and the nation. Operating in the lower division, known as Class A at the time, the Bluecoats were cleaning up. Newspapers were touting the corps as a “comer” ready to burst among the nation’s best.
Introducing the Bluecoats Annual Program
The Bluecoats Annual Program is a new publication that brings the Bluecoats story to our community. This 80-page publication is in part a program for our three Drum Corps International shows, in part an annual report of the Bluecoats organization, and in part a magazine celebrating one year’s worth of programming, leadership, and growth at Bluecoats. Click “Read More” to see the program online!
Monday Memory: Innovations IN BRASS through the years
This past weekend the Bluecoats hosted Innovations IN BRASS at the same location where the first show began in 1974. Hoover High School provided a lively stage for a drum corps show. As one of DCI’s longest running sponsored shows, Innovations has had a unique history.
True Bloo: Episode 3
We’re on week four here in Marion, IN, and we only have six days until tour!
Our Newest Performance Partner: Wireless Mic Belts
Today we are announcing the addition of Wireless Mic Belts to our list of Performance Partners. Wireless Mic Belts offers an array of wireless microphone belts and packs that stand as the industry standard for theater, music, and other audio engineering fields. With this endorsement, Bluecoats will use exclusively the mic pack products provided by Wireless Mic Belts for sound reinforcement across all performing arts programming.
Jeff Nelsen of Canadian Brass Visits Spring Training
Jeff Nelsen has been a performer in the Canadian Brass for more than eight years, and has a staggering resume of experience performing in the horn sections of dozens of orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, and the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Montreal, and St. Louis Symphonies. In 2011 at Indiana University, Jeff gave a celebrated TEDx Talk about fearless performance and has since given Fearless Performance lectures to fellow TED presenters, teachers, athletes, and business people around the world. Professor Nelsen gave one such talk to the 2019 Bluecoats and students of THE BLUE WAY this weekend at the beautiful Phillippe Auditorium at Indiana Wesleyan University.