Have United Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps perform at your event

United Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps is always looking for new events to participate in. Currently we attend 15 to 18 events each year. These events range from festival parades such as the Waterford Pumpkin Festival Parade or Simcoe's own Friendship Festival parade. We travel across Ontario into Quebec, Michigan and New York. We also perform before both outside and inside audiences such as our own "and the bands played on" the Norfolk County Fair and Richmond, Michigan's Good Old Days Festival.

Our prime objective is to entertain our audiences and have fun!

Our group ranges in age from 19 to 81 with a wide range of experience. While you are visiting our web page, please take the opportunity to view our "photos" page.

If you would like more information about United Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps please contact our Corps Director Ed Pow at 519-720-9290 or feel free to send a note through our Contact Us page.

Port Dover, Canada Day Parade, 2009

Legends of Drum Corps Show, Oshawa, August 31, 2009, Photo by Jim Hodge.

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Announcer's Introduction

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Print Version of Announcer's Intro.

The United Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps was formed in 1998 as a one time reunion event. That one time event has continued into their thirteen season of operation. Their marching member’s history spans more than five decades from 1950 to 2000. Today their members’ average age is 55 years young and come from across Ontario to perform before audiences in parades and shows in the United States, Quebec and of course Ontario. United Alumni is very proud to have won many awards throughout the years including Best Marching Unit in the Montreal St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 2008 and best Musical Unit out of 20 marching bands at the 2010 West Virginia Strawberry Festival, in Buckhannon West Virginia.

The United Alumni proudly represents Simcoe and Norfolk County with this year’s repertoire of; A Place to Stand, As the Deer, Norfolk Rumble, I Go to Reo, 76 Trombones, Copacabana and You’ll Never Walk Alone.

Our brass instructor is George Parkinson and our percussion instructor is Mark Lewis, Corps Director is Ed Pow, colour guard captain is Chris Mullin and under the direction of Drum Major Len Addley…

Our Repertoire

The following music links are from the Toronto Optimist Show, Legends of Drum Corps in Toronto on August 28, 2010.