The Year Everybody Read the Book
Twelve World Class corps built 2026 on William Blake, Joseph Conrad, J.M. Barrie, Georges Seurat and a poem somebody posted to Tumblr around 2013. The Bluecoats went undefeated. Arguably, the most talented performing ensemble on the field finished fourth. This episode is about why those two facts are the same story — that a drum corps season measures not how good you are but how much better you got, and that in 2026 those came apart. Full written coverage at drumcorpsworld.com.