The 2019 DCI World Championships were full of incredible musical moments. Dan Potter teams up with DCI's Michael Boo and Jeff Griffith in this six-part series this week covering The Cavaliers, Crossmen, Madison Scouts and Music City.

The 2019 DCI World Championships were full of incredible musical moments. Dan Potter teams up with DCI's Michael Boo and Jeff Griffith in this six-part series this week covering Boston Crusaders, Phantom Regiment, Troopers, Jersey Surf, and Seattle Cascades.

It’s been an unusual season for a couple of Open Class powerhouses. Blue Devils B and Vanguard Cadets have both stayed in California and their seasons are already over. You might think the members and staff would be disappointed by that, but you’d be wrong. Dan Potter talks with directors Efrain Hinojosa of Blue Devils B and Rob Shetland of Vanguard Cadets in the afterglow of their Golden State-centric 2019 tours.

The traditionally all-male Madison Scouts announced that they will allow all genders to join the corps starting in 2020, and it’s news that has all of drum corps talking. Dan Potter gets insight on the organization’s decision-making process with Madison’s CEO Chris Komnick.

A lot is expected of you when you're the defending DCI World Champion. Through the eyes of head drum major Andrew Arbouzov and color guard captain Cheslee Morgan, Dan Potter finds out Santa Clara Vanguard is handling the pressures of the summer of 2019.

Sacramento, California's Mandarins have picked up where they left off in 2018 — and then some — fresh off of an inaugural trip to the DCI World Championship Finals. In the latest Field Pass Podcast, Dan Potter caught up with Mandarins creative director Mario Ramirez and second-year mellophone player Catie Burtch about the corps' progress and its 2019 production, "subTerra."

One of the last corps to release info about their 2019 competitive production, DCI's Dan Potter catches up with Bluecoats program coordinator Dean Westman for the full reveal.

The 2019 Drum Corps International Tour steps off in a matter of days. Before you head to Ford Field in Detroit, or one of hundreds of movie theaters nationwide to watch the premiere, take a look behind the curtain at what last year's Top 12 World Class corps are putting on the field this year with DCI's Dan Potter and DCI artistic director Lee Carlson.

It’s a season of change for the seven-time World Champion Cavaliers, and the executive director position is no exception. As the corps gets set to begin its 2019 campaign, find out what is drawing Monte Mast to the Rosemont corps, just weeks after his retirement from a more than 30-year career as a music educator and administrator.

Just over a month since the DCI World Championship Finals wrapped up in Indianapolis, Dan Potter takes a look and listen back through 2018’s Top 12 with DCI.org columnist Michael Boo.