Gulf Coast Sound (Winter) Drum & Bugle Corps

The Gulf Coast Sound Senior (Winter) Drum & Bugle Corps is pleased to announce that we are fielding a 'Winter Corps' for the 2001-2002 Winter Guard season. GCS is a member of the Gulf Coast Drum Corps Associates along with the Bayou City Blues Senior Drum & Bugle Corps, based out of Houston, TX.

Gulf Coast Sound has teamed up with the MCM Winter Guard from the University of Houston and will be performing and competing in Winter Guard International and the Texas Color Guard Circuit. Rather than using traditional types of recorded music or a percussion ensemble, MCM has chosen to incorporate a full Drum & Bugle Corps to provide the music as well as additional visual elements.

The horn line is playing on G Bugles, rather than marching band horns, and is comprised of 4 Sopranos, 2 Mellophones, 2 Baritones, 1 Euphonium, and 2 Contrabasses. The horn line will march and do drill in conjunction with the guard.

The percussion section will consist of 1 or 2 people playing on a drum set and assorted pit style instrumentation. In the future we would like to use battery percussion with a small 1 or 2 man pit. But for the sake of simplicity we chose to use a drum set this year.

More information and a schedule of shows is available on the corps website at http://www.gulfcoastsound.org/wintercorps.html or email info@gulfcoastsound.org