Fantastic news! We have familiar faces returning to the Mandarins as our ENTIRE design team returns for 2024! We are excited to see what this inspiring team puts together for the Year of the Dragon! Check out their full bios here: https://www.mandarins.org/programs/mandarins-drum-corps/design-staff/
Class of 2022 and 2023 Announced At the Mandarins’ 60th Anniversary Gala, Joseph Fong, Sy Miyasato, Mike Jan, and Kitty Chow were inducted into the Mandarins Hall of Fame for the Class of 2022 and 2023. They’ve given the Mandarins several decades of experience and volunteer effort to help make the organization what it is …
Annually, Mandarins corps members choose one of their own to receive the Outstanding Member award. This award is given in memory of Joe Fong, our 1976 recipient. That year, the Mandarins repertoire included music from The Wiz, and these lyrics are engraved on a perpetual trophy displayed at the Mandarins Event Center: “If you believe …
Join us at 5:00pm on Saturday, September 16th, at the Mandarins Event Center, 9792 Business Park Dr, in Sacramento, CA to celebrate sixty years of Mandarins! This event will be catered and will celebrate Ye-Wah/Mandarins history, past, present, and future, featuring historical memorabilia, live music, and a special performance of the Mandarins Alumni Corps! Tickets …
JW Sums Up the 2023 Season Wow, wow, WOW!!! I don’t have any other way to describe the 2023 season. When the design team finished putting together the show, we knew we had created something good. But we didn’t know just how good IT would be. The corps members were solid as performers. But we …
At the 2023 DCI Semifinals, JW Koester was awarded the Dr. Bernard Baggs Leadership Award, recognizing him as the World Class Director Of The Year, as voted upon by all other World Class corps directors. Mandarins corps members and staff were on the field to watch JW receive the award; their chants of “J-Dub! J-Dub! …
Greetings all! This month’s article is literally being written as I ride the bus to Monroe, LA. at 1:30 am in the morning. Why? Because you write things when you have the time to do so, and this is the time, with everyone asleep. Our tour has gone extremely well for the drum corps, and …
On a balmy, beautiful evening this past Monday, the Sacramento Mandarins’ 10th Annual DCI Capital Classic lit up Roseville, CA at West Park High School. Fans were treated to performances by some of the best drum corps in the nation. Over 2,600 wildly-cheering fans packed the sold-out stands. More fans enjoyed standing-room-only views. Also in …
The Rocky Mountain Rivalry returns for the 2023 Drum Corps International summer tour! In a friendly rivalry with the Blue Knights and the Troopers, the Mandarins are raising funds to help defray Food and Fuel costs during tour. Inflation has caused food prices to increase 25%. Diesel costs about $1,300 each time we fill up …
DCI and Fathom Events presents Big, Loud & Live 18 at select theaters nationwide, on Thursday August 10, 3:30pm PDT. See highlights of the top fifteen corps, followed by LIVE coverage of the DCI World Championship Prelims from the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy. Buy tickets and plan your Watch Party in your town. Join …
