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The Blue Devils
LocationConcord, California, United States
DivisionWorld Class
Founded1957
DirectorPatrick Seidling
Senior Executive AdvisorDavid Gibbs
Chief Executive OfficerJim Verrett
Championship titles
  • CYO:
    • 1976
    • 1978
    • 1980
  • DCI:
    • 1976
    • 1977
    • 1979
    • 1980
    • 1982
    • 1986
    • 1994
    • 1996 (tie)
    • 1997
    • 1999 (tie)
    • 2003
    • 2007
    • 2009
    • 2010
    • 2012
    • 2014
    • 2015
    • 2017
    • 2019
    • 2022
    • 2023
Websitewww.bluedevils.org

The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Concord, California. The Blue Devils are members of Drum Corps International (DCI).[1] They have finished in the top three at the DCI World Championships since 2006, and have placed no lower than fifth since 1992. They also hold the record for the highest score in DCI history, winning the 2014 DCI World Championships with a score of 99.65.[2] The Blue Devils hold a record of twenty-one titles to date.

History

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In 1957, Tony and Ann Odello and the Concord VFW post assumed control of the Martinettes, a defunct drum corps and drill team. They reorganized the unit as the Blue Devils. Initially, the group performed as an all-boy drum corps with an all-girl drill team. In 1958, the Blue Devils added glockenspiels, becoming a drum and bell corps, while the girls became a separate baton twirling troupe, the Majorettes. The two units continued to perform together, winning numerous state and local competitions between 1957 and 1970.[citation needed] In 1961, the Blue Devils added a flag section to the unit that was then competing in the state's Junior division. In 1968, the drum and bell corps moved into Senior Division competition, and the new junior corps, Blue Devils B, was founded.

In 1970, a group of buglers was added to the Blue Devils drums and flags, and the corps entered its first competition as the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. By 1972, the unit, now with over seventy members, advanced from Class B competition to Class A and traveled on tour outside California for the first time. The summer of 1973 marked the Blue Devils first national tour and their first appearance at the Drum Corps International World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The younger Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps was also formed in 1973. In 1976, the Blue Devils won the first of the corps' twenty-one DCI World Championship titles.

Over the years, the Devils have often made use of jazz and Latin music repertoires, notably Bill Reddie's Channel One Suite (made famous by Buddy Rich) and charts from the music of Chick Corea and Chuck Mangione and that written for Stan Kenton's big band.[3][4][5][6] Since 1994, the percussion caption head has been Scott Johnson.

In 2014, the Blue Devils won their sixteenth DCI World Championship. At the DCI Finals in Indianapolis on August 9, the corps received a record high score of 99.650.[7] The Blue Devils are also the only corps to have crossed the 99-point threshold twice in DCI World Championship history, achieving a 99.050 in 2009, and a 99.650 in 2014.

In the Blue Devils' 2017 program, voiceovers were used from a newly-discovered audio tape recording of the late former director Jerry Seawright addressing the crowd at the Blue Devils' first appearance as a drum and bugle corps in 1972.[8][9]

In 2023, the Blue Devils claimed their first Three-Peat in the corps’ history. After winning in 2019, 2022 and now its third title in a row, the corps reached a DCI Title “Three-Peat”. The Cadets and The Cavaliers are the only other World Class corps to reach such a feat in Drum Corps International history.

Sponsorship

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The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by BD Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) musical organization.[10]

BD Performing Arts also sponsors the Blue Devils B, the Blue Devils C, the Blue Devils Open Class and A Class Winter Guards programs, the Diablo Wind Symphony, and BD Entertainment.

In 2015, BD Performing Arts added the Blue Devils International Corps, a 97-member unit made up of alumni of the Blue Devils and 8 other DCI World Class corps. The corps spent more than a month traveling and performing in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Switzerland, concluding with 9 days and 15 performances of their show at the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland.[11] A similar tour was planned for 2020, with stops in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]

Show summary (1972–2024)

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Source:[13]

Key
Pale blue background indicates DCI World Class Finalist[a]
Dark gold background indicates DCI World Class Champion[a]
  1. ^ a b From 1972-1991, the Blue Devils competed in Open Class; from 1992-2007 in Division I, and since 2008 in World Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.
Year Repertoire World Championships
Score Placement
1972 Strike Up the Band (from Strike Up the Band) by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / Ave Maria by Franz Schubert / Venus by Robbie van Leeuwen / The Man I Love & I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy) by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / Day in the Life of a Fool by Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria, adapted by Carl Sigman Did not attend
World Championships
1973 Chant and Jubilo by W. Francis McBeth / Jupiter (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst / Ave Maria by Franz Schubert / This Could Be the Start of Something Big by Steve Allen / Miserlou (Traditional), adapted by Nicholas Roubanis / Caravan by Juan Tizol / Morning of the Carnival by Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria 66.100 24th Place
Open Class
1974 Chant and Jubilo by W. Francis McBeth / Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor, Chase the Clouds Away & Feel of a Vision by Chuck Mangione / One Touch of Venus by Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash / Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday & Herbie Nichols 79.150 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1975 Space Shuttle by John LaBarbera / Love's Been Gone So Long by Bruce Conte / What Is Hip by Emilio Castillo & Stephen Kupka / Squib Cakes by Chester Thompson / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor, Feel of a Vision & Chase the Clouds Away by Chuck Mangione 88.600 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1976 Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor & Chase the Clouds Away by Chuck Mangione 92.700 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1977 Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Spanish Fantasy by Chick Corea / Gonna Fly Now (from Rocky) by Bill Conti 92.050 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1978 Chicago III Suite (Canon by James Pankow; Mother by Robert Lamm; Once Upon a Time by James Pankow & Free by Robert Lamm), adapted by Stan Kenton / Spanish Fantasy by Chick Corea / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor by Chuck Mangione 91.200 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1979 Chicago III Suite (Canon by James Pankow; Mother by Robert Lamm; Once Upon a Time by James Pankow & Free by Robert Lamm), adapted by Stan Kenton / La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / A Pauper in Paradise by Gino Vannelli / My Heart Belongs to Me by Alan Gordon 93.550 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1980 New York Fantasy by Wayne Downey / Ya Gotta Try by Sammy Nestico / Pegasus by Hank Levy / Free by Robert Lamm / La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / A Pauper in Paradise by Gino Vannelli / Dindi by Antônio Carlos Jobim & Aloísio de Oliveira, adapted by Ray Gilbert 90.600 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1981 New York Fantasy by Wayne Downey / Ya Gotta Try by Sammy Nestico / La Danse du Bonheur by John McLaughlin & L. Shankar / One More Time Chuck Corea by Gene Puerling / Johnny One Note (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / Dindi by Antônio Carlos Jobim & Aloísio de Oliveira, adapted by Ray Gilbert 93.700 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1982 T.O. by Rob McConnell / Pegasus by Hank Levy / Paradox by Kerry Livgren & Steve Walsh / One More Time Chuck Corea by Gene Puerling / People Alone (from The Competition) by Lalo Schifrin & Will Jennings 95.250 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1983 T.O. by Rob McConnell / Everybody Loves the Blues by Maynard Ferguson & Nick Lane / Paradox by Kerry Livgren & Steve Walsh / One More Time Chuck Corea by Gene Puerling / A New Beginning by Wayne Downey 93.800 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1984 Bacchanalia by Steve Spiegl / Latin Implosion by Hank Levy / Karn Evil 9 by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Peter Sinfield / La Fiesta by Chick Corea / Like a Lover by Dori Caymmi, Nelson Motta, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman 97.900 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1985 Liferaft Earth by Marius Nordal / Trilogy by Keith Emerson & Greg Lake / Karn Evil 9 by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Peter Sinfield / Piano Concerto No. 1 by Keith Emerson / First Circle by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays 97.100 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1986 Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Conquistador by Jay Chattaway & Maynard Ferguson / Spanish Fantasy & Chick Corea Suite by Chick Corea 98.400 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
1987 Spanish Dreams
Fanfare for the New by Hugo Montenegro / Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers / Echidna's Arf (Of You) by Frank Zappa / Free by James Pankow / Spanish Dreams by Phil Kelly
94.400 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1988 Happy Days Are Here Again by Milton Ager & Jack Yellen / That Old Black Magic by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer / Goodbye Yesterday by Don Piestrup / Since I Fell For You by Buddy Johnson 96.300 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1989 Ya Gotta Try by Sammy Nestico / If We Were In Love (from Yes, Giorgio) by John Williams, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman / Allegre by Claude Bolling / Johnny One Note (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart 95.900 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1990 Selections from Tommy
Sparks, See Me Feel Me, Tommy Can You Hear Me, Pinball Wizard, Underture, Listening To You & Overture Finale
All from Tommy by Pete Townshend (The Who)
95.300 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist[a]
1991 Conversations in Jazz
Commencement (from Adventures in Time) by Johnny Richards / Bird and Bela in B-Flat, Mvts. 2 & 3 by Don Sebesky
93.800 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1992 Big, Bad and Blue
Blue Light, Red Light (Someone's There) by Harry Connick Jr. & Ramsey McLean / El Congo Valiente, Fuego Cubano & La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge
95.400 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
1993 A Don Ellis Portrait
Open Wide & Great Divide by Don Ellis / Chain Reaction by Hank Levy / Strawberry Soup & Niner-Two by Don Ellis
95.100 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
1994 My Spanish Heart
Spanish Fantasy, Part 1; Night Streets; Day Danse; My Spanish Heart & Spanish Fantasy, Part 4
All from My Spanish Heart by Chick Corea
98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
1995 Carpe Noctem
Buleria (from Jazz Pana) by Vince Mendoza / Conquistador by Jay Chattaway & Maynard Ferguson / Coronation of the Dead Queen, Mvt. 4 & Ines, Mvt. 2 (from The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski / No Heroes by Rick Tait / Commencement (from Adventures in Time) by Johnny Richards / Caribe (from One More Once) by Michel Camilo / Day Danse by Chick Corea / Dom Pedro's Revenge, Mvt. 5 (from The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski
96.700 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
1996 Club Blue: A Gangster Chronicle
The Children's Hour of Dream by Charles Mingus / Desi by Michael Daugherty / Tess' Theme (from Dick Tracy) & Trouble (from Mission: Impossible) by Danny Elfman
97.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion[b]
1997 As Time Goes By...
Casablanca by Max Steiner / One Night In Bangkok by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice / A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie & Frank Paparelli / As Time Goes By by Herman Hupfeld
98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion
1998 One Hand, One Heart...
Romeo and Juliet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
97.700 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
1999 Rhythms... At the Edge of Time
Rhythm 1 – Afrocuban/Malambo: Estancia by Alberto Ginastera
Rhythm 2 – Rhumba: Rhumba for Orchestra Rhumba by Graeme Koehne
Rhythm 3 – Samba: Rhumba for Orchestra Samba by Graeme Koehne
Rhythm 4 – Tango: Adios Nonino by Astor Piazolla
Rhythm 5 – Jazz: Unchained Melody by Graeme Koehne
Rhythm 6 – Swing: The Dirty Boogie by Brian Setzer
98.400 1st Place
Division I
Champion[c]
2000 Methods of Madness
Prelude & Blues (from Taxi Driver: A Night Piece For Orchestra), Prelude (from On Dangerous Ground), Prelude (from Psycho), Scène d'Amour (from Vertigo) & The Wild Ride (from North by Northwest)
All by Bernard Hermann
96.900 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
2001 Awayday Blue
Awayday by Adam Gorb / Fantasy Variations (on George Gershwin's Second Prelude for Piano) by Donald Grantham / Paganini Variations by Philip Wilby
97.600 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist[d]
2002 Jazz: Music Made in America
Ragtime, adapted by Randy Newman / I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy) & Fascinating Rhythm by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / House of the Rising Sun (Traditional) / Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie
97.300 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist
2003 Phenomenon of Cool
Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo / Take Five by Paul Desmond / Blue Rondo à la Turk & "Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck / Cool Fugue and Prologue (from West Side Story) by Leonard Bernstein
98.800 1st Place
Division I
Champion
2004 The SummerTrain Blues MIX
The Ghost Train Triptych by Eric Whitacre / Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin / Take the A Train by Billy Strayhorn / Calling the Indians Out by Wynton Marsalis
98.525 2nd Place
Division I
Finalist
2005 Dance Derby of the Century
Redline Tango by John Mackey / Brother Can You Spare A Dime by Jay Gorney & E.Y. Harburg / Prelude Fugue and Riffs & On the Town by Leonard Bernstein / In Wartime by David Del Tredici
95.250 4th Place
Division I
Finalist
2006 The Godfather, Part BLUE
Selections from The Godfather by Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola / Symphony No. 6 by Carl Dine / Two Symphonic Movements by Václav Nelhýbel / Symphony No. 1 by William Alwyn / La Doma (from Estancia) by Alberto Ginastera / La Strada by Nino Rota
96.550 3rd Place
Division I
Finalist
2007 Winged Victory
Bird and Bela in B Flat, Mvt. 2 by Don Sebesky / Celebrare Celeberrime by Carl Vine / Introduction to Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / Pegasus by Hank Levy / The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky / The Kiss by Michael Torke
98.000 1st Place
Division I
Champion
2008 Constantly Risking Absurdity
Main Theme from Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim / Phrygian Gates by John Adams / Bach 2 Part Invention in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, adapted by Gordon Goodwin / Serenada Schizophrana, Mvt. 1 by Danny Elfman / I Will Wait For You by Michel Legrand / The Untouchables by Ennio Morricone
98.100 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2009 1930
Get Happy by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler / Happy Days Are Here Again by Milton Ager & Jack Yellen / Playing Love (from The Legend of 1900) by Ennio Morricone / Piano Variations by Aaron Copland / Rialto Ripples by George Gershwin / I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy) by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / The Strength of the Righteous (from The Untouchables) by Ennio Morricone / Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin / Caravan by Juan Tizol / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
99.050 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2010 Through a Glass Darkly
City of Glass Suite by Bob Graettinger / Conflict & Mirage by Pete Rugolo / Trajectories by Franklyn Marks / Incident In Jazz by Bob Graettinger / Laura by David Raksin & Johnny Mercer / La Suerte de los Tontos by Johnny Richards
98.900 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2011 The Beat My Heart Skipped
A House Is Not a Home, Summer of 77, Walk On By, One Less Bell To Answer, Woman, I Say A Little Prayer, Wives and Lovers & God Give Me Strength
All by Burt Bacharach
97.800 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2012 Cabaret Voltaire
Harmonielehre by John Adams / Morrison Mania by James Horner / The Children's Hour of Dream by Charles Mingus / Symphonies: V by Andre Souris / Bird and Bela in B Flat by Don Sebesky / Gymnopédies by Erik Satie / Ballet Mécanique by George Antheil / Peppy and George (from The Artist) by Ludovic Bource / Dr. Bones by Steve Perry / New Arrival by Danny Elfman / Tevot by Thomas Ades / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
98.700 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2013 The Re:Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / The Rite of Spring by Don Sebesky / The ReWrite of Spring by Darryl Brenzel
98.050 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2014 Felliniesque
Act 1 – Fellini's Religion: Old Toys (from Iris) by Danny Elfman / La Strada Theme by Nino Rota
Act 2 – Fellini's Circus: The Clowns by Nino Rota / Circo Compagnia by Gordon Goodwin
Act 3 – Fellini's Fantasy: Be Italian (from Nine) by Maury Yeston / Movie Studio (from Iris) by Danny Elfman
99.650[e] 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2015 Ink
Dark Forest by Dave Glyde / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd & The Giant Attack (from Into the Woods) by Stephen Sondheim / The Mad Hatter's Tea Party by Gordon Goodwin / I Like You by J.Y. Park (GOT7) / Children Will Listen & Last Midnight (from Into the Woods) by Stephen Sondheim
97.650 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2016 As Dreams Are Made On
Cape Fear (Prelude) by Bernard Herrmann / Stormy Weather by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler / Ariel Attack by Gordon Goodwin / Where Are Ü Now by Sonny Moore, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Karl Rubin Brutus & Jordan Ware / Main Title (from The Impossible) by Fernando Velázquez / Prospero's Magic by Dave Glyde / Mishima by Philip Glass
97.250 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2017 Metamorph
Birth of Eternity, Dreamscape & Facing Future by Dave Glyde / The Triumph of Time by Peter Graham / Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Everything Must Change by Benard Ighner / STAY. (from Interstellar) by Hans Zimmer / Who Knows One? (Traditional) / Crystal by Simon Dobson
98.538 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2018 Dreams and Nighthawks
Laura by David Raksin & Johnny Mercer / Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers / Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson / Natural Woman by Gerry Goffin, Carole King & Jerry Wexler / Jacob’s Bakery by James Newton Howard / City Noir by John Adams / Blade Hawks by Simon Dobson / Night Runner by Paul Lovatt-Cooper / Gotham City by Dave Glyde / Konakkol Duet by Vidwan B. R. Somasheker Jois & Kumari V. Shivapriya / Playing Love (from The Legend of 1900) by Ennio Morricone
97.350 2nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2019 Ghostlight
Discombobulate (from Sherlock Holmes) by Hans Zimmer / Don't Think by Slamb / Rhythm Song by Paul Smadbeck / Cycle Song by Imogen Heap / A True Passion & Stroke of Genius by Lorne Balfe / Symphony No. 3 by Aram Khachaturian / Ghostlight by Dave Glyde / Circus by Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald (aka Dr.Luke), Claude Kelly & Benjamin Joseph Levin (aka Benny Blanco)
98.325 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2020 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Other Worlds
Selections from 2017–2019 productions / Killing Me by Boris Brejcha
(The Blue Devils did not perform live at DCI events in 2021)
No scored competitions
2022 Tempus Blue
Lapis Lazuli & Divine Blue by Dave Glyde / Carnival Of Venice by Niccolo Paganini / Moon River by Henry Mancini, arranged by Jacob Collier / Hands and Feet by Michel Camilo / Silk Sonic Intro by Bruno Mars / Tank! by Yoko Kanno / Home of the Brave by Thomas Bergersen
98.750 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2023 The Cut Outs
Proverb by Steve Reich / The Rise by Dave Glyde / Caves by Cody Fry / Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Tominaga, Fujibayashi, Tanaka / Stardust Crusaders (Jotaro's Theme) by Yugo Kanno / Resistance by Dave Glyde / Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell / Of Energy by TesseracT / Incident In Jazz by Bob Graettinger / Grand Canyon Fanfare by James Newton Howard
98.975 1st Place
World Class
Champion
2024 The Romantics
Romantics Whisper by Dave Glyde / And the Heavens Shall Tremble by Russell Brower and Matt Uelmen / Fable Legends (Title Theme) by Russell Shaw / Merry Go Round by Joe Hisaishi / Shattered Pixel by Dave Glyde / Game Girl by Dave Glyde / Time by Billy Porter / Distance by Dave Glyde / Can You Hear the Music by Ludwig Goransson / Poor Things (Finale) by Jerskin Fendrix
97.075 3rd Place
World Class
Finalist
  1. ^ In 1990, the Blue Devils and Phantom Regiment tied for 4th place.
  2. ^ In 1996, the Blue Devils and Phantom Regiment tied for 1st place.
  3. ^ In 1999, the Blue Devils and Santa Clara Vanguard tied for 1st place.
  4. ^ In 2001, the Blue Devils and the Cadets tied for 2nd place.
  5. ^ To date, this is the highest score received by any corps at DCI World Championships.

Caption awards

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At the annual World Championship Finals, Drum Corps International (DCI) presents awards to the corps with the high average scores from prelims, semifinals, and finals in five captions. The Blue Devils have won these caption awards:[14]

Don Angelica Best General Effect Award

  • 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2022, 2023

John Brazale Best Visual Performance Award

  • 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 (tie), 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023

George Zingali Best Color Guard Award

  • 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023

Jim Ott Best Brass Performance Award

  • 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2022

Fred Sanford Best Percussion Performance Award

  • 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015

Prior to 2000 and the adoption of the current scoring format, the Blue Devils won these captions:

High General Effect Award

  • 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1994

High Visual Award

  • 1976, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999

High Color Guard Award

  • 1979 (tie), 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999

High Brass Award

  • 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 (3 way tie), 1985 (tie), 1986, 1988, 1991 (tie), 1993 (tie), 1994, 1995 (3 way tie), 1997, 1998, 1999

High Percussion Award

  • 1976, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1997

Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps

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The Blue Devils "B"
Drum and Bugle Corps
LocationConcord, CA
DivisionOpen Class
Founded1968
DirectorLainey Braatz
Championship titles
  • 1982
  • DCI Open Class:
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2014
  • 2016

The Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps are an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Concord, California. The corps is a member of Drum Corps International and has grown from a feeder corps for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps to a full-fledged Drum Corps in its own right. The corps has won the DCI Open Class World Championship five times.[15]

History

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In 1968, the original Blue Devils corps moved up from B Class competition to A Class, and the Blue Devils B was started as a younger cadet corps. In 1973, the Blue Devils B converted from a drum and bell corps to a drum and bugle corps.[16]

As a cadet corps, the unit performed for years almost exclusively on the West Coast. Only when the World Championships were held in Pasadena, California did the Blue Devils B become a regular competitor in the Division II & III (now Open Class) Championships. The Blue Devils B won the first of three consecutive Open Class World Championships in Indianapolis in 2009. In 2011, the corps also competed in World Class preliminaries, finishing in 19th place and earning membership in DCI.

On September 5, 2018, BD Performing Arts, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that the Blue Devils B had "decided to travel and compete only in California for the 2019 season" and that both the Blue Devils B and the Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps would not attend DCI Open Class Championships in 2019.[17][18]

Show summary (1977–2024)

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Source:[19]

Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist[a]
Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
  1. ^ From 1997–2007, Blue Devils B competed in Division II; and since 2008 in Open Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.
Year Repertoire World Championships
Score Placement
1977 Repertoires unavailable 39.050 19th Place
Class A
1978 41.010 14th Place
Class A
1979–80 Did not attend
World Championships
1981 Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona / Ozark by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny / Sphinx's Lair (Unknown) / Home (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / Antioch Fantasy by Jim McFarland
1982 Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona / Samba de Haps by Mark Taylor
1983–88 Repertoires unavailable
1989 Suncats (Unknown) / Night Flight by Steve Robertson & Terry Shalberg
1990 Flight of the Condor by Dave Grusin / Bossa Corona by Bill Wiedrich / San Juan by Claus Ogerman / Samba de Haps by Mark Taylor / Don't Let Me be Lonely Tonight by James Taylor
1991 Flight of the Condor by Dave Grusin / Call on Me by Lee Loughnane / Jack Miraculous by Gino Vannelli / At Seventeen by Janis Ian / São Paulo by Antônio Maria, Benny Carter, David Benoit, Jay Hoggard & Kenny Dorham 84.300 4th Place
Class A60
1992 Payload (Unknown) / Night of the Capricorn Moon by Mike Vax / Bossa Corona by Bill Wiedrich Did not attend
World Championships
1993 The Sorcerer by Herbie Hancock / Sunrise Lady by Bruce Johnstone / Late in the Evening by Paul Simon
1994 Baroque Samba by Darmon Meader / Space Shuttle by John LaBarbera / Now or Never by Caprice Fox, Darmon Meader, Kim Nazarian, Peter DeRose, Peter Eldridge & Sara Krieger (New York Voices)
1995 Selections from the Mambo Kings
1996 From This Moment On (from Kiss Me Kate) by Cole Porter / City Gate by Chick Corea / The Rumble (from West Side Story) by Leonard Bernstein / You Can't Fall Up (You Just Fall Down) by Emilio Castillo, Skip Knape & Stephen "Doc" Kupka / Scott & Fran's Paso Doble (from Strictly Ballroom) by David Hirschfelder
1997 Nutville by Horace Silver / Guaguancó by Arturo Sandoval / Night of the Capricorn Moon by Mike Vax / Minuano by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays / Scott and Fran's Paso Doble (from Strictly Ballroom) by David Hirschfelder 86.000 4th Place
Division II
Finalist
1998 There's No Place Like Home
The Wiz Medley & Believe in Yourself (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / On Dangerous Ground Medley by Bernard Herrmann / Witches' Themes (from the Wizard of Oz) by Herbert Stothart / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz / Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg / So You Want to See The Wizard, Home & Brand New day (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
Did not attend
World Championships
1999 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Pontieo by Edu Lobo & José Carlos Capinam / Tom by Michael John LaChiusa / Baby Moon by Adam Guettel / Way Back to Paradise by Michael John LaChiusa / Dindi by Antônio Carlos Jobim & Aloysio de Oliveira, adapted by Ray Gilbert
2000 Music of Chicago
Make Me Smile by James Pankow / 25 or 6 to 4 & Beginnings by Robert Lamm / Call on Me by Lee Loughnane
2001 Dance Movements by Philip Sparke
2002 Scootin' on Hardrock by David Holsinger
2003 Chronometry: The Study of Time
The First Circle by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays / Letter From Home by Pat Metheny / Kinetic by Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway & Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
2004 Blue Fusion: The Music of the New York Voices and Pat Metheney
Baroque Samba by Darmon Meader / The Sultan Fainted by Darmon Meader & Peter Eldridge / Third Wind by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny / Letter From Home by Pat Metheny / Minuano by Lyle Mays & Pat Metheny
88.375 7th Place
Division II
Finalist
2005 3 Generations
Grandparents, Parents & Children
All by John Meehan
Did not attend
World Championships
2006 Chain Reactions
Fission by John Meehan, Vinnie Angelo & Mark Higgenbotham / Propagation & Mutual Excitation by John Meehan & Vinnie Angelo / Fusion by John Meehan, Vinnie Angelo & Mark Higgenbotham
89.350 6th Place
Division II
Finalist
2007 Trilogy
Trilogy, Jerusalem & C'est la Vie by Keith Emerson & Greg Lake / Piano Concerto No. 1 by Keith Emerson / Karn Evil 9 by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Peter Sinfield
90.875 4th Place
Division II
Finalist
2008 Flight
Flight by John Meehan & John Mackey / Turbine by John Mackey / Through the Night, Turbulence & Final Approach and Landing by John Meehan & John Mackey
96.775 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
2009 Pursuit...
Original Music by John Meehan & John Mapes / Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
95.500 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
2010 Space
Introduction and March & Battle: Planning the Attack; Return Fire & The Last Missile (from Interstellar Suite) by Amin Bhatia / Lux Arumque by Eric Whitacre / Aha! by Imogen Heap / Original Music by John Meehan
97.550 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
2011 Syncronicity
Synchronicity I by Sting / Kaleidoscope Heart by Sara Bareilles / Murder by Numbers by Sting / Krump by Scott McAllister / Synchronicity II by Sting / Original Music by John Meehan
95.000 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
76.450 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2012 Ecstatic Waters
Ecstatic Waters by Steven Bryant / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey / Over the Edge, Splashdown & River's End by John Meehan, Brian Dinkle & John Mapes
93.850 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
73.600 21st Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2013 Warped
Dom Pedro's Revenge (5th Mvt. of The Legend of Alcobaca) by Jim Sochinski / Bizarro by Michael Daugherty / Serenada Schizophrana by Danny Elfman / Original Music by John Meehan
95.700 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
77.950 20th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2014 Noir [nuvo]
Young and Beautiful (from The Great Gatsby) by Lana Del Rey / Brute Force (from The Naked City) by Miklós Rózsa / Theme (from The Usual Suspects) by John Ottman / Children's Hour of Dreams by Charles Mingus / Asphalt Cocktail by John Mackey / Film Noir/Pursuit (from Iris) by Danny Elfman
82.650 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
82.325 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2015 Prismatic
Luminosity by James Whitbourn / The Analog Kid by Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson & Geddy Lee (Rush) / You Know Where to Find Me by Imogen Heap / I Am the Doctor (from Doctor Who) by Murray Gold
80.325 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
77.175 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2016 To The Moon
Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy / Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine by Eric Whitacre / Space Race by John Meehan / Hostility: Intruder Alert & The Attack by Amin Bhatia / Symphony No. 10, Mvt. 2 by Dimitri Shostakovich / Countdown and Launch by Maverick Peterson & Dave Glyde / Adagio from Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian / Main Title (from Apollo 13) by James Horner
79.900 1st Place
Open Class
Champion
83.325 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2017 The World the Children Made
Satellite by Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, Paavo Siljamäki & Justine Suissa (Above & Beyond) / Spiritual Planet by Wataru Hokoyama / Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley / Original Music by John Meehan, Dave Glyde & Maverick Peterson / Worlds (Narration and Voice Samples) by Porter Robinson
79.625 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
80.050 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2018 The Other Side
Dance Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns / The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns / Dead Man's Party by Danny Elfman / Hello by Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin / Come Together by John Lennon & Paul McCartney / The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone / A Time for Us (from Romeo and Juliet) by Nino Rota
79.600 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
80.037 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2019 Re:Calling
1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass / Hello by Lionel Richie / Phrygian Gates by John Adams / Visionary by Ken Froelich
Did not attend
World Championships
2020 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Opted out of competition for the season
2022 I AM
Original Music by John Meehan, Sean Clark & Chavadith Tantavirojn
81.588 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
78.375 22nd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2023 Fathers of Electricity
Original Music by John Meehan, Sean Clark & Chavadith Tantavirojn
Did not attend
World Championships
2024 Sacred Geometry
Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard von Bingen / O Magnum Mysterium by Tomas Luis de Victoria / Geometry by Sean Clark and Chavadith Tantavirojn / Primacy of Number by Philip Glass / Stabat Mater by Jean-Charles Gandrille / The Laws of Nature by Sean Clark and Chavadith Tantavirojn / Once Upon a Castle by Michael Daughtry
82.475 2nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
81.075 20th Place
World Class
Semifinalist

Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps

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The Blue Devils C Drum and Bugle Corps are an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corp and a feeder corps for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps.[20]

As a junior cadet corps, with members aged 8–14, the unit for many years performed only as a parade and exhibition unit, not entering actual competition. The corps began entering field competitions in 2001, but the corps still performs almost exclusively on the West Coast.

Show summary (1995–2023)

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Source:[21]

Year Repertoire
1995 Mickey Mouse Club March by Jimmie Dodd / Electric Light Parade (Baroque Hoedown) by Jean-Jacques Perrey & Gershon Kingsley / When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) by Leigh Harline & Ned Washington / Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah by Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
1996 American Adventures
Yankee Doodle (Traditional) / America The Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates & Samuel A. Ward / Caribe by Michel Camilo / You're a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan / Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark by John Williams
1997 You're a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan / Bandstand Boogie by Charles Albertine / Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) by Louis Prima / Rock and Roll (The Hey Song) by Gary Glitter & Mike Leander
1998 Rhythm Saved the World by Saul Chaplin & Sammy Cahn / Cotton Candy by Russ Damon / Splish Splash by Bobby Darin & Murray Kaufman
1999 Saturday Morning Madness
Meet the Flintstones by Hoyt Curtin / Rocky and Bullwinkle by Fred Steiner / Pink Panther by Henry Mancini / Linus and Lucy (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) by Vince Guaraldi / George of the Jungle by Stan Worth & Sheldon Allman
2000 Too Much TV
Entertainment Tonight by Michael Mark / Green Acres by Vic Mizzy / Mission Impossible by Lalo Schiffrin / Addams Family by Vic Mizzy / Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod / Love Boat by Paul Williams & Charles Fox / The Monkees by Boyce and Hart / Star Trek by Alexander Courage / Bugs Bunny by Carl Stalling
2001 Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Cantina Band (from Star Wars), Star Wars & Somewhere in My Memory
All by John Williams
2002 Spy Corps 002
James Bond Theme by John Barry / Theme from Get Smart by Irving Szathmary / Spy Kids (Save the World) by Emily Cook, David Klotz & Dave Newton (Fonda) / Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones / Espionage by Billie Joe Armstrong
2003 Spellbound
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas / Selections from Lord of The Rings by Howard Shore / I Dream of Jeannie Theme by Hugo Montenegro / Theme from Bewitched by Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller
2004 Arabian Nights
Selections from Aladdin by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice / Caravan by Juan Tizol / Copacabana by Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman & Bruce Sussman
2005 Repertoire unavailable
2006 Nightmare in Blue
Repertoire unavailable
2007 Selections from Grease by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey
2008 WOZ
Ease on Down the Road (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / We're Off to See the Wizard, Over the Rainbow & If I Only Had a Brain (from The Wizard of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg / Brand New day (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
2009 ClassiCool
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini / Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns / Carmen by Georges Bizet
2010 Voyage at C
Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan & W. S. Gilbert / Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor by Chuck Mangione / Eternal Father Strong To Save by John B. Dykes & William Whiting / Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me by George Bruns & Xavier Atencio / Original Music by John Meehan
2011 The Greatest Show on Turf
Entry of the Gladiators (Thunder and Blazes) by Julius Fučík / Fantasy on Two Folk Songs by Nikolai Pavlovich Budashkin / Over the Waves by Juventino Rosas
2012 The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein / Shenandoah (Traditional) / Bonanza by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans / Battle Hymn of the Republic by William Steffe & Julia Ward Howe
2013 Route 66
Route 66 by Bobby Troup / Car Wash by Norman Whitfield / Fun, Fun, Fun by Brian Wilson & Mike Love / I Can't Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar
2014 Surfin' BDC
Fun, Fun, Fun by Brian Wilson & Mike Love / School's Out for Summer by Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway & Neal Smith / Surfin' USA by Brian Wilson & Chuck Berry / Wipeout by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connoly, Jim Fuller & Ron Wilson
2015 The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour, Can't Buy Me Love, Yesterday, "Eleanor Rigby", Drive My Car, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
All by Lennon–McCartney
2016 B.D.P.D.
Dragnet Theme by Walter Schumann / Hawaii Five-O Theme by Morton Stevens / Skyfall by Adele & Paul Epworth / Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson / The A-Team Theme by Mike Post & Pete Carpenter
2017 Come Fly With Me
Married Life by Michael Giacchino / Come Fly With Me by Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn / Learn to Fly by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins & Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) / Danger Zone by Giorgio Moroder & Tom Whitlock / Staying Alive by Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb & Barry Gibb (Bee Gees)
2018 Candyland: Part Blue!
"I Want Candy" by Bert Berns, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer (The Strangeloves) / Sugar Sugar by Jeff Barry & Andy Kim (The Archies) / Stuck Like Glue by Jennifer Nettles & Kristian Bush (Sugarland); Kevin Griffin & Shy Carter / Sugar, We're Goin Down by Pete Wentz & Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy)
2019 California Dreaming
We Built This City by Peter Wolf, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert & Bernie Taupin / "California Girls" by Brian Wilson & Mike Love / California Dreamin' by John Phillips & Michelle Phillips / Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer / Hooray For Hollywood by Johnny Mercer & Richard A. Whiting
2020 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Opted out of competition for the season
2022 It's About Time!
Dr. Who Theme by Ron Grainer / What Time Is It? by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil / Don't Stop Me Now by Freddie Mercury / My Life Would Suck Without You by Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald & Claude Kelly
2023 BD-Cafari
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses / Africa by David Paich & Jeff Porcaro / Eye of the Tiger by Frankie Sullivan & Jim Peterik / Roar by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee & Henry Walter
2024 The Gifts We ReCeive

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