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Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps

{{Infobox drums corps

| name=The Bushwackers

| logo=Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps.png

| logo_size=250px

| location=Princeton, New Jersey

| division=Open Class

| founded=1981

| director= Jim Dugan

| titles=DCA: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993

}}

The Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps is an all-age drum and bugle corps that competes in the Drum Corps Associates circuit,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-times-tribune/20190728/281625306906577|title= Music of the Night |newspaper= The Scranton Times-Tribune|date = July 28, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/strike-up-the-band-drum-and-bugle-corps-returns-to-wahconah-park,195982|title=Strike up the band: Drum and Bugle Corps returns to Wahconah Park|website=The Berkshire Eagle}} It was founded in 1981 in Harrison, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/drumcorps-faq/part6.html|title=Drumcorps FAQ 6/6 DCA - senior corps info|website=faqs.cs.uu.nl}} The corps is based in Princeton, New Jersey and is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The Corps has won the Drum Corps Associates Open Class World Champions six times, and the corps' percussion section is the only one in either junior or senior corps to ever win six straight High Percussion Awards at Championships: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991.{{Cite book |last=Beck |first=John H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8U83AgAAQBAJ&q=Bushwackers+Drum+and+Bugle+Corps+competition&pg=PA275 |title=Encyclopedia of Percussion |date=November 26, 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317747680 |via=Google Books}}

History

The Bushwackers Drum and Bugle corps was formed as a parade corps in 1981{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/ev--in-honor-of-valley-road-school-presenting-the-busbe7400716d|title=Bushwackers Drum and Bugle Corps|date=August 13, 2011|website=Princeton, NJ Patch|accessdate = November 20, 2019}} with a field corps forming in 1982. They were once located in Harrison, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums/index.php?/topic/131705-bushwackers-move-to-jupiter-quantum-brass/|title=Bushwackers Move to Jupiter Quantum Brass|website=Drum Corps Planet Forums}} During their first year of competition, The Bushwackers were able to make DCA finals in 8th place. In 1983, the corps was very competitive and ended the season with a fifth place showing. The corps continued to grow until 1986, with a brand new staff, The Bushwackers captured their first DCA title. This placed The Bushwackers in the upper echelon of DCA corps. The Bushwackers would go on to win the DCA twice more before the end of the decade. In the 1990s, The Bushwackers continued their championship ways, going on to take DCA’s top spot again in 1990, 1992, and 1993. The corps has been a top ten Finalist of DCA in 35 of its 38 years. In 2013 the Corps made its television debut on The Daily Show.{{Cite web|url=http://www.halftimemag.com/noteworthy/bushwackers-appear-on-the-daily-show.html|title=Bushwackers Appear on "The Daily Show" |publisher = Halftime Magazine |date=September 25, 2013 |accessdate = November 20, 2019}} In 2014 the Bushwackers performed as the opening act at the Special Olympics USA closing ceremony.{{Cite web|url=https://dcacorps.org/the-bushwackers-perform-at-the-special-olympics/|title=Drum Corps Associates » The Bushwackers Perform at the Special Olympics}}{{Cite web|url=https://bushwackersdc.org/2014/06/24/2014-special-olympics/|title=The Bushwackers Perform at the 2014 Special Olympics – Bushwackers Drum & Bugle Corps}} In 2017, the Corps collaborated with ASPIRA of Pennsylvania to establish the Bushwackers Academy, an educational organization.{{Cite web|url=http://www.halftimemag.com/november-december-2018/noteworthy_bushwackers-academy.html|title=Bushwackers, ASPIRA, and Musicopia Boost Music Education Philadelphia|publisher = Halftime Magazine |date=December 4, 2018|accessdate = November 20, 2019}}

Show summary (1982–2024)

Source:{{Cite web|url=http://www.dcxmuseum.org/index.cfm?view=corpslist&Corpsid=1856|title=DCX - Drum Corps Xperience|website=www.dcxmuseum.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://bushwackersdc.org/history/|title=History by Season|date=April 8, 2012}}

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|style="background-color:#d4af37"|Goldenrod background indicates DCA Open Class Champion

style="background-color:#add8e6"|Blue background indicates DCA Open Class Finalist

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! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Repertoire

! scope="col" | Score

! scope="col" | Placement

scope="row" | 1982

| Clash of Titans by Laurence Rosenthal / Fish Legs by Walter Murphey / Mickey Mouse by Frank Churchill / That Cat is High by J.M. Williams / Snowbird Fantasy by Robert James / Chariots of Fire by Vangelis

| 70.550

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 8th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1983

| Cleopatra's Asp by Doc Severinsen / Emerald Eyes by Louis Alter / Egyptian Danza by Al Di Meola / Quensabe Los Suertas de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / Chariots of Fire by Vangelis

| 82.650

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1984

| Santos by Louie Bellson and Remo Palmier / Quensabe Los Suertas de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / Egyptian Danza by Al Di Meola / I'll Be There by Berry Gordy, Hal Davis, and Willie Hutch / Thriller by Rod Temperton

| 89.000

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1985

| The Epic by / The First Circle / Supertonic Suite All by the Pat Metheny Group

| 86.550

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1986

| Santos by Louie Bellson and Remo Palmier / Quensabe Los Suertas de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / La Suerte de Los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / Egyptian Danza by Al Di Meola / Ayres Eyes by Author Unknown

| 92.450

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1987

| Pellet Suite by Ian McDougal / Marguerite by Sammy Nestico / Corner Pocket by Freddie Green / Ayres Eyes by Author Unknown

| 92.960

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1988

| Pellet Suite by Ian McDougal / Inner Crisis by Larry Willis / Mira, Mira by Matt Harris / Out of Africa (from Congo) by Marilyn Bergman

| 96.360

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1989

| Time Check by Donald Menza / In Her Family by Pat Metheny / No Pasaran by Jeffrey Schanzer / Mira, Mira by Matt Harris

| 95.100

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1990

| Prototype
Prototype by Steve Melillo

| 96.900

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1991

| Son of Storm
Son of Storm by Steve Melillo

| 94.000

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1992

| Sweeney Todd
History of the World / The Ballad of Sweeney Todd / My Friends (from Sweeney Todd) / Worst Pies in London (from Sweeney Todd) / Epiphany (from Sweeney Todd) / Nothin' Gonna Harm You (All Sweeney Todd Music by Stephen Sondheim)

| 96.700

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1993

| Sunday in the Park with George
Putting it Together (from Sunday in the Park with George) / Color and Light (from Sunday in the Park with George) / Sunday in the Park (from Sunday in the Park with George) / Sunday (All by Stephen Sondheim)

| 96.600

| bgcolor="D4AF37" | 1st Place
Open Class
Champion

scope="row" | 1994

| A Nightmare Before Christmas
What's This? / This is Halloween / Making Christmas / Kidnap the Sandy Claws / Sally's Song / What's This Reprise (All from the Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman)

| 94.200

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1995

| A Symphony For Drum Corps
Mathis der Maler by Paul Hindemith / Age of Anxiety by Leonard Bernstein

| 93.600

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1996

| Sunset Boulevard
As if We Never Said Goodbye / Let's Have Lunch / The Car Chase / With One Look
All from Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber

| 91.500

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1997

| El Congo Valiente (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / Verde Luz by Caban Vale Antonio / Festival de Ritmo by Dave Weckl / A Mis Abuelos by Arturo Sandoval

| 89.600

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1998

| Jeckyll & Hyde
This is the Moment / Facade / Murder, Murder / Transformation / Alive / Take me as I Am
All from Jeckyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn & Leslie Bricusse

| 85.200

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 8th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 1999

| Sondheim Snapshots
Overture (from Merrily We Roll Again) / Next (from Pacific Overtures) / Pretty Woman (from Sweeney Todd) / Putting it Together (from Sunday in the Park with George) (All by Stephen Sondheim)

| 87.800

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 7th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2000

| Music from the Dark Side
The Duel of Fates (from the Phantom Menace) / The Battle (from A New Hope) / Battle in the Snow (from The Empire Strikes Back) / The Crash (from The Return of the Jedi) / The War, Ewok Battle (from The Return of the Jedi) / The End (from the Phantom Menace) (all by John Williams)

| 82.100

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 10th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2001

| The Raging River
Into the Raging River by Steven Reineke / On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein

| 92.400

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2002

| The Myths of Fire
Inferno (from Divine Comedy) by Robert W. Smith / Vesuvius by Frank Tilcheli / Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky

| 91.100

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 7th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2003

| Journey to the Moon
Twelve Seconds to the Moon by Robert W. Smith / Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith / To Tame the Perilous Skies by David Holsinger

| 91.038

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 7th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2004

| Early American Landscapes
Symphony No. 9 (from The New World) by Antoin Dvorak / Amber Waves by Martin Gould / William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini

| 88.638

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 8th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2005

| Russian Winter Portraits
Russian and Ludmilla by Mikhail Glinka / Dance of the Tumblers by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Romeo and Juliet / 1812 Overture (Both by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky)

| 94.738

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2006

| Stages: A 25th Stages Anniversary Celebration
Fanfare for the New by Hugo Montenegro / The Perfect Year (from Sunset Boulevard) by Andrew Lloyd Webster / Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson

| 95.638

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2007

| Around the Town

| 94.575

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2008

| Gypsodic!

| 93.425

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 6th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2009

| Scenes from a Psychotic Circus
Parade of Characters / Circus Normalus / Death Defying Feats / Freak Show / Three Ring Psychotic Circus (all from Scenes from a Psychotic Circus by Key Poulan)

| 88.963

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2010

| Voodoo
Origins / Rituals / Gris-gris / Black Magic
All from Voodoo by Key Poulan

| 86.763

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2011

| A New Beginning
First Climb / Rest at High Camp / Second Climb and Avalanche / To the Summit (all from Everest by Key Poulan, Paul Rennick, and Sandra Rennick)

| 79.800

| 11th Place

scope="row" | 2012

| American Roots
Scarborough Fair (Traditional) / Chester by William Billings / Shenandoah (Traditional)

| 80.200

| 11th Place

scope="row" | 2013

| WE ARE
Intro by Dennis Argul / I am the Doctor (from Doctor Who) by Murray Gold / Some Nights by FUN / Tonight Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins

| 87.430

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 8th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2014

| The Resistants
Supremacy by Muse / Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan / Knights of Cydonia by Muse / Symphonic Metamorphosis by Paul Hindemith

| 89.800

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 7th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2015

| Industrial (r)Evolution
Industrial Evolution, The Factory & Wild Ride (by Robert W. Smith) / Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young / Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar

| 82.300

| 12th Place

scope="row" | 2016

| Piano Forte
Piano Concerto No. 1 by Keith Emerson / Selection by Claude Debussy / Selection by Billy Joel

| 85.280

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2017

| Where We Belong
Music from The Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg / Creep by Radiohead / Orawa by Wojciech Kilar / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli

| 89.830

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 8th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2018

| Pablo
The Canyon by Philip Glass / Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez

| 92.725

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2019

| Diverge
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber / Fearful Symmetry by John Adams / Us and Them by Richard Wright / Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione / Libertango by Astor Piazzola

| 91.625

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist

bgcolor="e5e4e2"

! scope="row" | 2020

| colspan="3" | Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

scope="row" | 2021

| Reminiscor
Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson / Children's Dance by Howard Hanson / Original Music / Reflections of My Life by Marmalade

| 90.300

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2022

| Canyon
Fanfare For The Common Man / Horse With No Name / Hallelujah / Original Composition / Short Ride in a Fast Machine  

| 94.600

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2023

| Hollywood: A Walk in Their Shoes: A Tale of Tinseltown
Dedicated to The One I Love by The Mamas and the Papas / Paparazzi by Lady Gaga / Car Chase by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Original Music

| 92.200

| bgcolor="ADD8E6" | 3rd Place
{{nowrap|World Class}}
Finalist

scope="row" | 2024

| The Ride
Last Train Home by Pat Metheny / Let You Break My Heart Again by Laufey / The Great Locomotive Chase by Robert W. Smith / Home Sweet Home by Nikki Sixx & Tommy Lee

| 92.625

| bgcolor="add8e6" | 3rd Place
{{nowrap|World Class}}
Finalist

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://bushwackersdc.org/}}

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Category:Mercer County, New Jersey

Category:1981 establishments in New Jersey

Category:Musical groups established in 1981

Category:Harrison, New Jersey

Category:Drum Corps International All-Age Class corps