Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps invites public to free performance Friday at Adrian College
ADRIAN — The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps has been back at Adrian College this spring preparing for its competitive season and is inviting the community to its rehearsal performances on Friday, June 24.
The gates to Docking Stadium open at 8:30 p.m. when people can watch the corps practice, a news release said. At 9:30 p.m., the group will present a full dress rehearsal in uniform followed by a musical encore. This event is free and open to the public.
The Cavaliers 2022 production is titled “Signs of the Times.” The show is designed to take audiences on a journey from the early days of the printing press to the modern age of social media, all while showing how time is endless and repeats itself in mystifying ways, the release said. The musical repertoire includes music of old and new; from Johann Sebastian Bach to the Steve Miller Band to Harry Styles.
The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps has spent several hours a day outside rehearsing their 2022 production in preparation for a competitive summer tour across the U.S. Their convoy includes 150 performing musicians and color guard members, 60 staff and volunteers, two semitrailers full of instruments and equipment, and a third truck outfitted with a full kitchen.
The group is a world-class competing drum and bugle corps, affiliated with Drum Corps International. The membership is all male, consisting of 16- to 22-year-old musicians and dancers from across the country.
Hundreds of young men audition to be a Cavalier in November, and those who make the cut rehearse together monthly. The performers move in together in late May to learn and practice a 12-minute field show. In late June, the corps sets off for its summer tour, performing and rehearsing in large football stadiums across the country, beginning Tuesday, June 28, at Ford Field in Detroit. The season culminates Aug. 13 at the DCI World Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Since 1992, the Cavaliers have won the world championship title seven times.
This article originally appeared on The Daily Telegram: Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps to give free show at Adrian College
