Tickets are now on sale for the 2008 Drums On the Chippewa competition. The event will be held Sunday, July 27th, 7 p.m., at Carson Park in Eau Claire, WI.
Returning to our show is the 2007 Division III World Champion - Memphis Sound, from Memphis, TN. And making their second appearance at Drums On the Chippewa since 2005 - the Oregon Crusaders, from Portland, OR - also a 2007 Division III finalist.
Rounding out the lineup are Racine Scouts, from Racine, WI (in their fourth consecutive appearance at DOC), Spokane Thunder, from Spokane, WA, and Yamato, from Kyoto, Japan & Riverside, CA.
Yamato is unique, in that it is Drum Corps International’s only bi-cultural (Asian/American) organization. They have been a DCI Division III finalist 7 times in their 10-year history, taking second place in both 2003 & 2004.
Tickets are $10, on the day of the show - but you can save 20% by purchasing e-tickets from our Online Store. (If you happen to live in the Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls area, you can get your discount tickets at Gordy’s County Market, or Mega Foods.)
Contact person:
Linda Knutson
Executive Director
345 Frenette Drive
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Phone: 715-726-9094
April 4, 2008
CHIPPEWA VALLEY BRIGADE BEGINS FUND RAISING
TO FIELD DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS
The Chippewa Valley Brigade Drum and Bugle Corps Association has started to raise funds to field an Open Class Corps for competition in 2009.
Linda Knutson, Executive Director for the Association, stated that the Brigade plans to field a 100+ member Corps to take the field of competition in the summer of 2009 with the goal to qualify for the National Championships which will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Brigade is a new name but Drum Corps are not new to the Chippewa Valley. Drum Corps existed in Eau Claire for over 25 years but ended when the Sundowners went inactive in 1984.
Walter Brown, the original founder of the Boy Scout Band which became the Eau Claire Scouts and subsequently the Eau Claire Boys Drum & Bugle Corps, is being recognized at a special event held at the VFW Post 305, on Starr Ave in Eau Claire, on May 17, 2008. Walter was truly the Father of Drum Corps in the Chippewa Valley. Alumni are encouraged to attend.
Anyone wanting information on the Chippewa Valley Brigade can contact Linda at 715-726-9094 or stop at her office at 345 Frenette Drive in Chippewa Falls. Audition camps are being set up for this fall.
Welcome to the new look of the Chippewa Valley Brigade website! Our changes were designed to make the site more accessible - with a search form for news items, a mini calendar linked directly to our main calendar, and a new RSS feed, so you never have to be without the latest Brigade news.
Chippewa Valley Brigade Director Jim Young and CVDBCA Inc. Board Secretary Mike Allen recently returned from the Drum Corps International annual meeting in Orlando, FL. The 3-day conference included sessions for corps directors, instructors and show promotors - as well as a medical summit, which focused on the health and well-being of corps members.
It was an extremely productive weekend, as both Jim and Mike brought back lots of notes and new ideas that will help to insure the success of both the Chippewa Valley Brigade and Drums On the Chippewa.
The Saturday Medical Summit was kicked off at 7 a.m., with a brisk walk around the conference center grounds, led by DCI Executive Director Dan Acheson. Careful observers of the slideshow posted on the DCI website (see link below) will note the stylish CV Brigade cap and t-shirt being worn by Mike in photo number 4.
Visit DCI.org to see a slideshow of pictures from the entire event.
It’s full speed ahead to bring the Chippewa Valley Brigade to the field! Executive Director Linda Knutson has taken the helm of the Chippewa Valley Drum & Bugle Corps Association Inc. to gain the support needed for the Brigade to take the field in 2009, with the sole goal to win a National Championship in Open Class Competition.
We’re planning a corps of 100 high school and college age members, with an annual budget of $320,000 that will be met by a combination of fundraising, grants and member fees. Jim Young will continue as Corps Director for the Brigade, with Allyn Kjarsgaard as assistant director.
The development of a Founders’ Club will be an area of top priority for the Association. The Founders’ Club will fund the administrative function of the Corps activity. Founders’ Club membership will start at $3,000 with payments over three years.
Linda lives in Eau Claire and brings years of business ownership and management to the Association. In 2006, she was named as Restauranteur of the Year for the work she has done for the West Wisconsin Chapter of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, as well as her involvement in community and national events. She has and continues to own the Quiznos Classic Sub Restaurant on Golf Road in Eau Claire for the past six years. Linda will work with the over 1,000 Alumni of the former Eau Claire Corps to establish a base of ambassadors to assist in the Corps development.
Linda can be reached at 715-726-9094 or at 345 Frenette Drive, in Chippewa Falls. Linda’s e-mail is execdirector@cvbrigade.org.
-just by searching the Internet & shopping online!
Earn a penny for the Chippewa Valley Brigade every time you use the GoodSearch search engine in our name. It’s simple to do - and there are no forms to fill out.
Just go to GoodSearch.com, enter “Drum & Bugle Corps-Chippewa Valley” in the “Who do you search for?” field & click the Verify button. From then on, every time you use GoodSearch to search the Web, you will also be rasing money to support the Chippewa Valley Brigade. (And they have easy-to-install toolbars for IE, Firefox & Safari browsers to make it even easier for you!)
GoodSearch is a front-end to the Yahoo search engine that donates 50% of their advertising revenue (about a penny per search) to charity. Users just need to select their favorite charity and begin searching. The selected charity is stored as a cookie, so subsequent searches are automatically counted.
The really nice thing about GoodSearch is that there is no form to fill out with personal information - they don’t even want to know your name. The cookie is sufficient to credit each search to the Chippewa Valley Brigade.
A penny may not seem like much - but the more people who use GoodSearch in our name, the more money we make. Just 100 people, performing an average of 5 searches a day could raise over $1,800 a year for the Chippewa Valley Brigade!
Help the Brigade even more by going shopping!
Recently, GoodSearch has added donations based on online shopping - “GoodShop.” As with GoodSearch, users simply have to select the charity they wish to support & start shopping (if you’ve already selected “Drum & Bugle Corps - Chippewa Valley” as your charity for GoodSearch, you’re good to go with GoodShop.)
GoodShop donations vary by online vendor - and some vendors base the donation percentage on what you purchase - donations from e-bay purchases can be as high as 37.5%. There are currently 410 participating vendors, including iTunes, Land’s End, Macy’s, Petsmart & Wal*Mart.
To start using GoodShop, simply click the online vendor’s link on the GoodShop website. The donation amount doesn’t increase the cost of your purchase and you still get the same discounts, etc. you would get if you went directly to the vendor’s site. The vendors pay a commission to GoodSearch and a portion of that commission goes to the Chippewa Valley Brigade.
The entire idea of GoodSearch/GoodShop is to fund charitable donations through advertising revenue. This results in a new way for charities to benefit from people searching the Internet and shopping online.
Get the Word Out
We need your help to get the word out about this great fund raising opportunity for the Chippewa Valley Brigade. Please pass the word to your family, friends & coworkers to help the Brigade by using GoodSearch to search the web & GoodShop for all their holiday shopping!
Make money for the Brigade every time you search the web!
Go to goodsearch.com and enter: Drum and Bugle Corps - Chippewa Valley
as the charity you want to support.
June 8, 2008 
Posted in Association, Event, Main, News, Tickets/Souvenirs
