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Colts Drum and Bugle Corps

{{Short description|Junior drum corps from Dubuque, Iowa}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{Infobox drum corps

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|name= Colts

|location= Dubuque, Iowa

|division= World Class

|founded= {{start date|1963}}

|website= {{URL|https://colts.org}}

|director1 = Jeff MacFarlane

|director= Vicki MacFarlane

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The Colts Drum and Bugle Corps (previously known as the Junior Dukes, Legionnaires, and Colt .45) is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Dubuque, Iowa.{{Cite news |date=1983-07-24 |title=Colts are the pride of Dubuque |pages=13E |work=The Marion Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114954216/colts-are-the-pride-of-dubuque/}} The Colts are part of the Colts Youth Organization and a member of Drum Corps International, along with their feeder corps, the Colt Cadets, which participates in Open Class.{{Cite web |last=Lido |first=Jack |date=July 15, 2022 |title="The major league of marching band." Dubuque’s Colts Drum and Bugle Corps will blow you away |url=https://www.kcrg.com/2022/07/16/major-league-marching-band-dubuques-colts-drum-bugle-corps-will-blow-you-away/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=KCRG-TV}}

History

The corps was founded in 1963 as the Junior Dukes, a junior corps to the Dukes of Dubuque, a senior corps.{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Kate |date=26 August 2005 |title=Colts director giddy despite near-miss; Drum corps finishes in 13th place in national championship, missing the finals by one slot |page=A3 |work=Telegraph Herald}} The Junior Dukes were sponsored by the local American Legion Post #6 and competed as a military style parade band. The corps performed for two years under that name before the Dukes of Dubuque disbanded in 1965.{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2003 |title=Colts |encyclopedia=A History of Drum & Bugle Corps |publisher=Drum Corps World |last=Delaney |first=Steve |editor-last=Vickers |editor-first=Steve |volume=2 |pages=224–225 |oclc=54892759}} After the disbandment of the senior corps, the name was switched to the Legionnaires, and in 1966, the corps began to accept female members.{{Cite news |date=1970-06-21 |title=Iowa Drum Corps Set to Compete In Spectacular |pages=5 |work=Casper Star-Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114904138/iowa-drum-corps-set-to-compete-in/}}{{Cite news |date=1988-08-10 |title=Dubuque's Colts enters 26th year of existence |pages=14 |work=The Marion Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114954186/dubuques-colts-enters-26th-year-of/}} By 1967, the corps was large enough to create a feeder corps known as the Cadets, and the Legionnaires began touring in regional VFW competitions.{{Cite news |last=Barton |first=Thomas J. |date=2017-04-10 |title=Dubuque cadets celebrate drum corps lasting 50 years |page=A5 |work=Iowa City Press-Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114701552/dubuque-cadets-celebrate-drum-corps/}}{{Cite news |last=Ryder |first=Tom |date=1969-09-14 |title=How Dubuque Drum and Bugle Corps Wins All Those Titles |pages=10–11 |work=The Des Moines Register |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114904191/how-dubuque-drum-and-bugle-corps-wins/}}

In 1969, the corps changed their name again, then to the Colt .45 and Colt .45 Cadets. In 1971, the corps began to compete in VFW national competitions, earning as high as 5th place in 1973. That same year Colt .45 joined Drum Corps International, taking 28th in their first championship competition. Three years later, citing the negative association with both firearms and Colt 45 beer, the ".45" was dropped.{{Cite web |last=Voight |first=Sandye |last2=Hinga |first2=Allie |date=July 12, 2013 |title=Dubuque Colts celebrate 50 years |url=https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_5c05abbf-9525-5157-9bc3-08ea3bc54403.html |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=Telegraph Herald}}

The Colts continue to compete as a member of Drum Corps International, earning their first finals spot in 1993. The Colts have been a consistent semifinalist every year from 1982 to 2023, earning their highest placements in 1995, 2023 and 2024 at 9th place. Alongside the drum and bugle corps, the Colts Youth Organization also oversees the Colts Summer Band, Colts World Percussion, and a defunct competitive winter guard.

Show summary (1973–2024)

Source:{{Cite web |title=Colts: Repertoire |url=http://www.corpsreps.com/dcx/index.cfm?view=corpslist&CorpsID=36 |access-date=2023-10-10 |website= |publisher=DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience}}

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|style="background-color:#d0f0c0"|Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist{{efn|name=World Class|From 1973-1991, the Colts competed in Open Class, from 1992-2007 in Division I, and since 2008 in World Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.}}

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! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Year

! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Repertoire

! scope="col" colspan="2" |{{nowrap|World Championships}}

scope="col" | Score

! scope="col" | Placement

scope="row" | 1973

| The Big Country by Jerome Moross / There's a Coach Coming In by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner / Music from Cades County by Henry Mancini / How the West Was Won by Alfred Newman / When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Louis Lambert (Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore) / Battle Hymn of the Republic by William Steffe & Julia Ward Howe / United We Stand by Tony Hiller & Peter Simmons ||62.800 ||28th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1974

| Fanfare for the Common Man & Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland / Oklahoma Crude by Henry Mancini / The Sting by Scott Joplin & Marvin Hamlisch / Ironsides / How the West Was Won by Alfred Newman

| colspan="2" bgcolor="e5e4e2" | Did not attend
World Championships

scope="row" | 1975

|Wild, Wild West by Richard Markowitz / Ghost Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones / How the West Was Won by Alfred Newman / Scalphunters by Elmer Bernstein / Left Bank Express by Maynard Ferguson / Ironsides / "California Dreamin'" by John Phillips & Michelle Phillips ||66.400 ||30th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1976

|Emperata Overture by Claude T. Smith / Just You and Me / Left Bank Express by Maynard Ferguson / Tower of Power Medley by Emilio Castillo & Stephen Kupka / Soul and Inspiration by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil ||71.250 ||25th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1977

|Gershwin's Three Piano Preludes by George Gershwin / Suncatchers by Butch Nordahl / Evergreen (from A Star Is Born) by Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams / Watch Closely Now & With One More Look at You by Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher ||73.100 ||26th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1978

|Showboat Scenario by Jerome Kern / The Birth of the Blues by Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva & Lew Brown / Take Five by Paul Desmond / A Star is Born by Paul Williams||68.650 ||27th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1979

|Starburst by Jeremy Wall / The Birth of the Blues by Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva & Lew Brown / Showboat by Jerome Kern / Star Gazer by Neil Diamond / Tara's Theme (from Gone with the Wind) by Max Steiner ||63.300 ||35th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1980

|Everything's Coming Up Roses (from Gypsy) by Stephen Sondheim & Jule Styne / Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So & There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / Turkey in the Straw (Traditional) / Smile by Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons ||61.100 ||28th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1981

|There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York & Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / Swanee by George Gershwin & Irving Caesar / Crosswinds by Billy Cobham / Come Sail Away by Dennis DeYoung ||64.050 ||28th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1982

|Swing, Swing, Swing (from 1941) by John Williams / Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / Prelude/Angry Young Man by Billy Joel / Come in from the Rain by Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager ||67.200 ||24th Place
Open Class

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! scope="row" | 1983

|Mississippi Suite by Ferde Grofe / Luck Be A Lady & Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat (from Guys and Dolls) by Frank Loesser / Dill Pickles (Traditional) / Mr. Bojangles by Jerry Jeff Walker / Old Man River (from Show Boat) by Jerome Kern

60.60022nd Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1984

|Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish / Swing, Swing, Swing (from 1941) by John Williams / A Night in Tunisia by John Birks Gillespie / Peninsula by Oscar Castro-Neves & Sergio Mendes / What's New? by Bob Haggart & Johnny Burke / Come in from the Rain by Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager

70.40023rd Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1985

|Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish / Love for Sale (from The New Yorkers) by Cole Porter / A Night in Tunisia by John Birks Gillespie / Peninsula by Oscar Castro-Neves & Sergio Mendes / Skylark by Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer / Sing Sing Sing by Louie Prima

80.90016th Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1986

|Johnny One Note (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / I Got Rhythm by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / Smile Again by Bill Champlin, David Foster, Jay Graydon & Alan Paul / The Heat's On by Sammy Nestico

74.70020th Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1987

|Honeymoon Suite & Love for Sale (from The New Yorkers) by Cole Porter / Up the Ladder to the Roof by Frank Wilson & Vincent Dimirco / Mardi Gras March by Paul Webster & Sammy Fain / Somewhere Out There by James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil / Fieval’s Reprise (from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West) by James Horner

76.50020th Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1988

|Seems Like Old Times by Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb / Mountain Greenery (from The Garrick Gaieties) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / Just in Time (from Bells Are Ringing) by Jule Styne, Betty Comden & Adolph Green / Mardi Gras March by Paul Webster & Sammy Fain / My Funny Valentine (from Babes in Arms) by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

78.50018th Place
Open Class
Semifinalist
scope="row" | 1989

|Matchpoint by Jed Levy / Willowcrest by Bob Florence / Ballad for a Rough Year by Frank Mantooth ||73.600 ||21st Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1990

|Santorini by Yiannis Hrysomallis (Yanni) / Ludwig by Ludwig van Beethoven, adapted by Bob James / On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David Holsinger / Farandole by Georges Bizet ||72.800 ||23rd Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1991

|Santorini by Yiannis Hrysomallis (Yanni) / On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David Holsinger / Shock by John Tesh / Earthrise by Chip Davis / In the Spring, When Kings Go Off to War by David Holsinger ||72.100 ||22nd Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 1992

|Morning to Morning by David Foster & David Paich / A Thousand Summers & Brain Dead Weasel by John Tesh / The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Dave Grusin & Peggy Lee / Reprise by Chuck Naffier ||75.500 ||20th Place
Division I

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! scope="row" | 1993

|Iowa's Four Seasons
Winter by Chuck Naffier / A Thousand Summers by John Tesh / Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Dave Grusin & Peggy Lee / Reprise by Chuck Naffier

81.60012th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 1994

|Relations and Romance
Smile by Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons (pianist) / Almost Like Being in Love (from Brigadoon) by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner / Lover Man by Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman & Roger "Ram" Ramirez / Higher and Higher by Billy Davis, Raynard Miner, Gary Jackson & Carl Smith / As Time Goes By (from Casablanca) by Herman Hupfeld / Reprise 1994 by Chuck Naffier

80.10012th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 1995

|Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park, Children and Art, Color and Light & Sunday
All from Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim

|86.300

9th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 1996

|The Magnificat
Magnificat anima me; Of a Rose, A Lovely Rose; Fecit Potentium; Esurientes & Gloria Patri
All from Magnificat by John Rutter

81.30011th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 1997

|The Music of Blood, Sweat and Tears
Symphony for the Devil by Dick Halligan / God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr. / Lucretia McEvil by David Clayton-Thomas / Hi-De-Ho (That Ole Sweet Role) by Gerry Goffin & Carole King / 40,000 Headsmen by Steve Winwood & Jim Capaldi

84.10013th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 1998

|A Cappella Celebration
Crown Him With Many Crowns by Charles H. Gabriel & Matthew Bridges / Searching for You by Wayne Shorter & Paul Stiller / Reza by Jaco Pastorius / Morning by Paul Stiller & Lisa Keily Stiller / Vox Finale by Chuck Naffier & Jerry Carpenter

85.30012th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 1999

| Voices
Dies Irae (from Requiem) by Giuseppe Verdi / Flamma Flamma, Corpus Inimici & In Corpore (from Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem) by Nicholas Lens / I Believe by Eric Levi / Scherzo (from Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio) by Elliot Goldenthal

86.00012th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 2000

|The Wait of the World
Godspeed, Speech of Angels, The Wait of the World, Now the Children Lead & The Chosen
All by Stephen Melillo

82.30014th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2001

|Chivalry
Sinfonia Voci by David Holsinger / Allemande (from Courtly Airs and Dances) by Ron Nelson / Non Nobis Domine (from Henry V) by Patrick Doyle / Battle Scene by Michael Klesch / Once More Unto the Breach (from Henry V) by Patrick Doyle

84.90012th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 2002

|Revelations
Dawn (from 5 Miniatures) by Joaquin Turina / Concerto for 4 Percussion, Be Thou My Vision & New Century Dawn by David Gillingham

83.90015th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2003

|Symphonic Visions: Ritual, Song, and Dance
Cantus Laetus by David Gillingham / Harrison's Dream by Peter Graham / Blue Sapphire (from Colours) by Roger Cichy

80.05016th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2004

|From the Heartland
American Overture by Joseph Willcox Jenkins / John Henry & Threshing Machines by Aaron Copland / Old Man River (from Show Boat) by Jerome Kern / Celebration by Robert Russell Bennett

81.32516th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2005

|Postcards From Home
The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land) & The Red Pony by Aaron Copland / The Landworkers (from Estancia) by Alberto Ginastera / Till There Was You (from The Music Man) by Meredith Willson / Stomp Your Foot by Aaron Copland / Jubilee by Morton Gould

84.07513th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2006

|Continuum
Windsprints by Richard Saucedo / As Time Goes By (from Casablanca) by Herman Hupfeld / Ride by Samuel Hazo

83.05013th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2007

|Equinox
With One Look (from Sunset Boulevard) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton & Don Black / Coronation of Boris Gudonov by Modest Moussorgsky / Troika (from Lieutenant Kijé Suite) by Sergei Prokofiev / String Quartet No. 4, Mvt. 5 "Allegro Molto" by Béla Bartók / As If We Never Said Goodbye (from Sunset Boulevard) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton & Don Black

86.15010th Place
Division I
Finalist
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! scope="row" | 2008

|Night and Day
Night and Day by Cole Porter / Bernstein Medley by Leonard Bernstein / Unexpected Song (from Song and Dance) by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Spellbound Concerto by Miklos Rosza

85.17514th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2009

|Fathoms
Song of the High Seas (from Victory at Sea) by Richard Rodgers / The Sea Treaders (...In Calm And Storm) by W. Francis McBeth / The Voyage by Chris Tomsa & Max Mullinix / "Ebb Tide" by Robert Maxwell & Carl Sigman / SOS by Max Mullinix / The Journey Home by Chris Tomsa & Max Mullinix

85.60013th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2010

|True Colors
Green by Michael Torke / Alone in the Crowd & One Man Show (from Pollock) by Jeff Beal / True Colors by Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly / Appalachian Morning by Paul Halley

84.65013th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2011

|Deception: The Jagged Edge
Swan Lake by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Danza de los Duendes by Nancy Galbraith / The Swan (from The Carnival of the Animals) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Mind Heist by Zack Hemsey

82.25016th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2012

|Boundaries
August's Rhapsody (from August Rush) by Mark Mancina / Boundaries by David Nelson / Piano Concerto No. 2, Mvt. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninov / All By Myself by Eric Carmen

79.2017th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2013

|Field of Dreams
Can't Help Falling In Love by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss / At Last by Mack Gordon & Harry Warren / American Graffiti by Aaron Guidry / The Place Where Dreams Come True (from Field of Dreams) by James Horner / Chorale & Fugue In Jazz by Morton Gould

82.45015th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2014

| Dark Side of the Rainbow
Breathe by Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) / On the Run by David Gilmour & Roger Waters / Time by Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright & David Gilmour / Powerhouse by Raymond Scott / The Great Gig in the Sky by Richard Wright & Clare Torry / Everything in Its Right Place by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien & Philip Selway (Radiohead) / Brain Damage & Eclipse by Roger Waters

85.35013th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2015

| ...And a Shot Rings Out: A Johnny Staccato Murder Mystery
Man With The Golden Arm by Elmer Bernstein / Lex (from Metropolis Symphony) by Michael Daugherty / Audrey's Dance (from Twin Peaks) by Angelo Badalamenti / Science Fiction by Christian McBride / Moanin' by Charles Mingus / Lay Me Down by Sam Smith, James Napier & Elvin Smith / Scherzo (from Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio) by Elliot Goldenthal / Original Music by Chuck Naffier & David Nelson

83.02514th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2016

| Nachtmusik
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven / Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Vincent by Don McLean / Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber & Joseph Mohr / Nights in White Satin by Justin Hayward / New Moon In The Old Moon's Arms by Michael Kamen

81.51316th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2017

| Both Sides Now
Prologue – Theme from We Are Marshall by Christophe Beck
Logic – Serenada Schizophrana by Danny Elfman & Kaleidoscope of Mathematics (from A Beautiful Mind) by James Horner
Emotion – Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
Conflict – Symphony No. 2 by John Barnes Chance
Resolution – Medley of We Are Marshall, Serenada Schizophrana & Both Sides Now

83.88815th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2018

| True Believer
Loneliness – Motherless Child (Traditional) / Not to be Forgotten (Our Final Hour) by Pat Metheny
Whimsicality – L'arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole by Georges Bizet / Land of the Long White Cloud by Philip Sparke
Reflection – Endless Night (from The Lion King) by Hans Zimmer
Materialism – Big Shot by Billy Joel
Introspection – A Piece of Sky (from Yentl) by Michel Legrand & Alan and Marilyn Bergman

84.61314th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
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! scope="row" | 2019

| When Hell Freezes Over
Hells Bells by Angus Young, Malcolm Young & Brian Johnson (AC/DC) / Inferno by Robert W. Smith / Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens / Dulcinea (from Symphony No. 3, Don Quixote) by Robert W. Smith / Etude Op. 25 No. 11 (Winter Wind) by Frederic Chopin / Winter (from The Four Seasons) by Antonio Vivaldi / Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

84.225

| 16th Place
World Class
Semifinalist

scope="row" | 2020

| colspan="3" bgcolor="e5e4e2" | Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

scope="row" | 2021

| Leap of Faith
Rainbow Connection by Kenneth Ascher & Paul Williams / Take a Chance on Me by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA) / Faith by Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco & Francis Farewell Starlite / Faith by George Michael / Freedom 90 by George Michael

| colspan="2" bgcolor="e5e4e2" | No scored competitions

scope="row" | 2022

| The Silk Road
Meetings Along The Edge by Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass / Arabian Waltz by Rabih Abou-Khalil / The Dragon Boy by Joe Hisaishi / José / beFORe JOHN5 by Aurél Holló / Divas & Dunes by Aaron Zigman / Kashmir by John Bonham, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)

| 87.200

| bgcolor="add8e6" | 11th Place
World Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2023

| Where the Heart Is
Home Sweet Home by Mötley Crüe / Minuano (Six-Eight) by Pat Metheny Group / To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra & Patrick Watson / Feels Like Home by Randy Newman / Classical Gas by Mason Williams

| 90.263

| bgcolor="add8e6" | 9th Place
World Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2024

| On Fields
Fields of Joy by Michael Kamen & Hal Fredricks / MacArthur Park by Jimmy Webb / Fields of Gold by Gordon Sumner / Autumn Leaves by Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert & Johnny Mercer / Original music by CJ Barrow, Josh Nelson & Michael Miller / The First Circle by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays / Strawberry Fields Forever by Lennon-McCartney / Sowing the Seeds of Love by Roland Orzabal & Curt Smith

| 89.775

| bgcolor="add8e6" | 9th Place
World Class
Finalist

Colt Cadets

The Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps was founded in 1967 as the Legionnaires Cadets. In conjunction with the parent corps, it was renamed to the Colt .45 Cadets in 1969 before settling on the name Colt Cadets in 1976. The group serves as the feeder corps to the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps and is a member of the Drum Corps International Open Class division. A feeder corps is an Open Class group made up of younger members with the goal of training them to move up to the World Class group. The Colt Cadets have made Drum Corps International Open Class Finals by placing in the top twelve at Open Class Championships eight times from 2010 to 2023.{{Cite web |last=Gloss |first=Megan |date=2023-07-12 |title=Dubuque Colts Drum & Bugle Corps marks 60 years of camaraderie, care and musicianship |url=https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_718bf74c-1f3c-11ee-8926-1bf9fc4f1f97.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=Telegraph Herald}}

= Show summary (2000–24) =

Source:{{cite web |title=Colt Cadets: Repertoire |url=http://www.corpsreps.com/dcx/index.cfm?view=corpslist&Corpsid=80 |access-date=16 December 2022 |publisher=DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience}}

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! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Year

! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Repertoire

! scope="col" colspan="2" |{{nowrap|World Championships}}

scope="col" | Score

! scope="col" | Placement

scope="row" | 2000

| A Sailor's Life For Me
A Sailor's Life For Me / Tame The Savage Sea by Elliot del Borgo / The Pirate's Tale / Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Glière / Anchors Away by Alfred H. Miles & Charles A. Zimmermann

| colspan="2" rowspan="6" bgcolor="e5e4e2" |Did not attend
World Championships

scope="row" | 2001

| Trapped in the Time Machine
2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Strauss / Loco-Motion by Gerry Goffin & Carole King / Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two) by Harry Dacre / Pedestrian's Folly / Cruisin' by Smokey Robinson / Magic Carpet Ride by John Kay & Rushton Moreve

scope="row" | 2002

| Make His Praise Glorious by Bill and Robin Wolaver / A Mighty Fortress by Martin Luther / I'll Give You Peace by Dawn Yarbrough Thomas and Tom Yarborough / Away In The Darkness by Scott Stulir / Amen by Bob Kauflin / Reprise by Ted Reicher

scope="row" | 2003

| OzFest
Over The Rainbow (from The Wizard Of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg / I'm A Mean Ole Lion, Slide Some Oil To Me, Ease On Down the Road & If You Believe (all from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls

scope="row" | 2004

| Snoop Dog
Linus And Lucy (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) by Vince Guaraldi / Snoopy's Song & Dime A Dozen (from Snoopy! The Musical) by Larry Grossman & Hal Hackad / "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" by Phil Gernhard & Dick Holler / The World According To Snoopy & It's The Reprise, Charlie Brown (from Snoopy, The Musical) by Larry Grossman & Hal Hackad)

scope="row" | 2005

| Arcade!
Insert Coin / The Puzzle / The Chase / The Triumph

scope="row" | 2006

| Criminal Mischief
Dragnet by Scott Nathan / Secret Agent Man by P.F. Sloan & Steve Barri / James Bond Theme by Monty Norman / Call Me, Beep Me! (The Kim Possible Theme Song) by Cory Lerious & George Gabriel / Carmen Sandiego by Sean Altman & David Yazbek / Charlie's Angels Theme by Jack Elliot & Allyn Ferguson / Live And Let Die by Linda McCartney & Paul McCartney

| 66.375

| 11th Place
Division II

scope="row" | 2007

| Sold Out!
Carry On My Wayward Son by Kerry Livgren / Point Of Know Return by Steve Walsh, Robby Steinhardt & Phil Ehart / Lights by Dennis DeYoung & Tommy Shaw / Synchronicity I by Sting / All The Small Things by Blink-182 / Ants Marching by Dave Matthews

| colspan="2" bgcolor="e5e4e2" |Did not attend
World Championships

scope="row" | 2008

| New American Signatures
America & American Tune by Paul Simon / Song For America by Kerry Livgren

| 76.125

| 18th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2009

| Lullaby & Good Nightmare
Theme (from Big Top Pee-wee) by Danny Elfman / The Place Where Dreams Come True (from Field of Dreams) by James Horner / Hall Of The Mountain King (from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1) by Edvard Grieg

| 78.100

| 14th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2010

| Sorcerer's Revenge
Music of Andrew Boysen, Jr. by Andrew Boysen, Jr. / The Sorcerer's Apprectice by Paul Dukas / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / For Good (from Wicked) by Stephen Schwartz

| 82.300

| bgcolor="afeeee" | 11th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2011

| NOTORIOUS
Overture (from Anne of the Indies) by Franz Waxman / Overture (from Mutiny on the Bounty) by Bronisław Kaper / Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland / Finale & The Immigrant (from The Godfather) by Nino Rota / Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, Mvt. 4 Allegro non troppo by Dmitri Shostakovich

| 79.150

| bgcolor="afeeee" | 12th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2012

| Alive
Escape From Chronopolis by Reber Clark / Theme from Van Helsing by Alan Silvestri / Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Theme from Psycho by Bernard Herrmann / Facade (from Jekyll & Hyde) by Frank Wildhorn & Leslie Bricusse

| 75.400

| bgcolor="afeeee" | 12th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2013

| Red
Habanera (from Carmen) by Georges Bizet / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Dave Grusin & Peggy Lee / Happy Ending (from The Red Pony Suite) by Aaron Copland / Red In The Air by Terry White & Brian Zeglis

| 80.900

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

scope="row" | 2014

| Crazed
Overture (from Dancer in the Dark) by Björk / Equus by Eric Whitacre / Crazy by Brian Burton & Thomas Calloway / Goin' Out Of My Mind by Teddy Randazzo & Bobby Weinstein / Love Crazed by Terry White

| 66.000

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

scope="row" | 2015

| Fire & Ice
The Inferno (from The Divine Comedy) by Robert W. Smith / The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky / Cuban Fire! by Johnny Richards / Ice Dance by Danny Elfman / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed

| 64.100

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

scope="row" | 2016

| The Journey Within
Joy by Joseph Curiale / Symphony No. 9 in D minor by Anton Bruckner / Smile (from Modern Times) by Charlie Chaplin / Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven

| 61.550

| 15th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2017

| The River's Edge
Earth Dance by Michael Sweeney / Flight Of The Piasa by Robert Sheldon / Quad City Stomp by Michael Sweeney / Vitava (Die Moldau) by Bedřich Smetana

| 61.200

| 14th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2018

| Moderne
Un Bel Di by Giacomo Puccini / Symphony No. 7, Mvt. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Rey & Rick Nowels / Bad Romance by Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) & Nadir Khayat / The Hut Of Baba Yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky

| 62.800

| 13th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2019

| ...Of a Feather
Blackbird by John Lennon & Paul McCartney / Don't Stop Me Now by Freddie Mercury / On Eagles Wings by Michael Joncas / The Raven by Alan Parsons & Eric Woolfson

| 64.425

| bgcolor="afeeee" | 11th Place
Open Class
Finalist

scope="row" | 2020

| colspan="3" bgcolor="e5e4e2" |Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

scope="row" | 2021

| Apart Together
Once Upon Another Time by Sara Bareilles / Afro American Symphony No. 4 by William Grant Still / Pray For Me by Kendrick Lamar & The Weeknd / At Last by Ella Fitzgerald

| colspan="2" bgcolor="e5e4e2" | No scored competitions

scope="row" | 2022

| To The Stars
Rewrite The Stars by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul / Rocket Man by Elton John / Enterprising Young Men (from Star Trek) by Michael Giacchino

| 67.150

| 14th Place
Open Class

scope="row" | 2023

| Classical Innovations
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven / Golden Hour by JVKE / Until The Scars by John Mackey

| 70.025

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

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2024

| rowspan="2" | The Woods
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev / Ballad from Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim / The Path Between Mountains by Jay Kennedy

| 72.050

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

70.500

| 29th Place
World Class

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://colts.org}}
  • [https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php/COLTS_DRUM_AND_BUGLE_CORPS Colts Drum and Bugle Corps] in Encyclopedia Dubuque

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