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A New Goal To Meet An Unprecedented Challenge
Over the last month, the Bluecoats Community has demonstrated a level of support unmatched in our history. Hundreds of donations have been made, The Shield has the largest number of Sustaining Members in its history, and our ticket buyers, students, and other customers have donated thousands of dollars in purchases back to us. All of this support is an amazing unified effort to ensure that the cancellation of our 2020 season does not mean the cancellation of our mission and the end of our nearly 50 year legacy.
Monday Memory: When it all clicked 25 years ago
25 years ago this week the Bluecoats were making preparations for pre-season for the 1995 season. Little did anyone realize how this season would be a transformative one and also foreshadow the future of the activity.
#TrueBlooTuesday: 2011 - Creep
Happy #TrueBlooTuesday! Listen to the 2011 Bluecoats horn line singing Creep, an iconic piece of the repertoire from Brave New World.
Every Tuesday we feature one of our amazing True Bloo videos across our social media channels and on our website!
#TrueBlooTuesday: 2018 Episode 4 - Keep Pushing Forward
It's #TrueBlooTuesday! This episode is all about pushing through tough days and remembering what you're striving for!
Every Tuesday we feature one of our amazing True Bloo videos across our social media channels and on our website!
Continuing the Bluecoats Experience
Since the cancellation of our 2020 season tour, we’ve been working on ways to keep the Bluecoats Experience active for our 2020 performers. While this is a difficult time for everyone involved in the drum corps activity, we feel especially for the performers who have lost the promise of an incredible summer. We have a lot of plans underway to give our performers the best experience possible.
#TrueBlooTuesday: 2015 Episode 6 - Together
Welcome to #TrueBlooTuesday!
Every Tuesday we're going to feature one of our amazing True Bloo videos across our social media channels and on our website! This week's video is all about how incredible our alumni are and building community in uncertain situations
Monday Memory: When Easter Weekend meant a Bus Trip to Drill Camp!
30 years ago this past weekend, the Bluecoats were coming off their 5th consecutive Easter Weekend Drill Camp. In 1990 the corps returned to 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore, Maryland, where they had first come in 1986. The idea of “hitting the road” for a drill camp was something that (then) Director Ted Swaldo liked as a way to do a dry run on touring to get the kinks out six weeks before setting out on Summer Tour for real. In the first few years, the corps did standstill performances in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tourist destination before hundreds of downtown spectators.
