Trip to Rockford

For those of you who are unfamiliar where Rockford, Illinois is...........

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My flight left Memphis at around 10 AM and by 2pm I was in Rockford. I flew from Memphis to O'Hare Airport in Chicago and then took the bus up to Rockford. This has been the easiest and fastest trip up here that I've ever had.

Anyhow, I'm sitting in the Phantom Regiment office on the campus of Rockford college waiting for students and other staff members to show up. We will assign dorm rooms tonight to everyone for the duration of our stay in Rockford. The corps will be here for about 3 weeks until we move into a high school gym. That is when the real drum corps starts!

The brassline is in what we call "Brass Boot Camp" this week. We will start up tomorrow. 12 hour a day rehearsals outside in the elements learning brass fundamentals and cleaning up parts of the show musically. This Saturday we will march in the Memorial Day Parade in Loves Park, which is right next to Rockford. Some of you older drum corps fans may remember that they used to announce the corps as from Rockford/Loves Park Illinois. But, now we only claim Rockford :)

Anyhow, check back soon for an update on how rehearsals are going for our 2008 production "SPARTACUS".

TC