We are proud to announce our 2023 caption head team, with some familiar faces, new faces, and familiar faces in new roles! Please join us in congratulating Taha Ahmed and Emily Magee in their new roles of Percussion Caption Head and Front Ensemble Coordinator respectively, and Ben Pyles in the newly created position of Ensemble
The Mandarins is proud to introduce our 2023 Visual Co-Caption heads, Mr. James Gow and Mr. Zak Stillwell. James and Zak bring a tremendous degree of excellence and experience at the highest levels of the drum corps activity, and we look forward to James and Zak creating amazing opportunities for our visual program. Mr. Gow
The Mandarins are pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Vince Oliver as their new Brass Arranger for the drum & bugle corps. Vince brings a wealth of show design experience, programming coordination and musical expertise to the Mandarins from all areas of the musical & pageantry activities including scholastic marching band music programs, scholastic
Finished, done, that’s a wrap, pack ’em up, gone, close the door – you make that call because the 2022 drum corps summer season is now finished. And what a finish it was! Another Top 10 finals performance, our third in three years, and our highest score ever in world class competition along with being the fans’
Brandon Wallace Chosen by Corps Members At the end of each summer tour, Corps Members select the annual recipient of the Outstanding Corps Member award, also known as the Joe Fong Memorial award. Brandon Wallace received this distinguished honor in 2022. Brandon stated, “Being voted for the Joe Fong award by my peers means the
Mandarins Make History Again At the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, the Mandarins completed their 2022 season with a personal-best score of 90.013. This set a new high score for DCI Finals 10th place, breaking the previous record set by the Mandarins in 2019. And, no other 10th-place finalist has ever reached 90 points. Also,
