27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps
The 27th Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps was an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Revere, Massachusetts, the 27th Lancers performed in Drum Corps International competitions and were one of the founding members of DCI. The corps was a 11-time Top 12 Finalist at the DCI World Championships but went inactive after the 1986 season.
In 1993, a highly successful alumni gathering resulted in a special 27th lancer tribute corps that performed at the 1994 DCI Championships. Playing songs from the junior corps era, the group went under the slogan "Once more in '94", the group had over 300 members on the field. This performance has long been known as the final "Farewell" amongst fans and supporters.
Show summary (1968-86)
Pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist.| Year | Theme | Repertoire | Score | Placement |
| 1968 | The Great Race March by Henry Mancini / Shenandoah / Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh & Joe Darlon / Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg / Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini / March of the Grenadiers by Josef Locke / The Impossible Dream by Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion | 75.40 | 11th | |
| 1969 | Rawhide by Ned Washington & Dimitri Tiomkin / Shenandoah / Scarborough Fair / Classical Gas by Mason Williams / March of the Grenadiers by Josef Locke / Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne / Waltzing Matilda by Christina Macpherson & Banjo Paterson / The Impossible Dream | 82.5 | 9th | |
| 1971 | Irish Washerwoman by Leroy Anderson / Shenandoah / Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? & Beginnings by Robert Lamm / Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne / Waltzing Matilda by Christina Macpherson & Banjo Paterson / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 88.85 | 3rd | |
| 1972 | The Wee MacGregor by Henry G. Amers / Declarations / A Foggy Day by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin / Beginnings & Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? by Robert Lamm / Loch Lamond / Garry Owen / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 86.0 | 4th | |
| 1973 | Crown Imperial by William Walton / Declarations by Julius Johnsen & Rene De Knight / African Suite by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor / Rawhide by Ned Washington & Dimitri Tiomkin / Shenandoah / Classical Gas by Mason Williams / The Impossible Dream by J. Robert Hanson / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 88.05 | 4th | |
| 1976 | Crown Imperial by William Walton / We're Off to See the Wizard by Arthur Bliss / Sweet Georgia Brown by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, & Kenneth Casey / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 85.0 | 5th | |
| 1977 | 87.45 | 4th | ||
| 1978 | Carmen by Georges Bizet / Selections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams / I've Got the Music in Me by Bias Boshell / Miracles out of Nowhere by Kerry Livgren / Celebrate by Gary Bonner & Alan Gordon / Gaite Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach | 84.75 | 7th | |
| 1979 | English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams / Open Wide by Don Ellis / On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, & Adolph Green / Take Five by Paul Desmond / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 86.40 | 5th | |
| 1980 | English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams / Open Wide by Don Ellis / On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, & Adolph Green / New Country by Jean-Luc Ponty / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 90.25 | 2nd | |
| 1981 | Crown Imperial by William Walton / New Country by Jean-Luc Ponty / Niner Two by Don Ellis / The Greatest Love of All by Michael Masser & Linda Creed / Spitfire Prelude & Fugue by William Walton / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly* *Replaced Spitfire Prelude & Fugue at DCI World Championship Finals only | 91.90 | 4th | |
| 1982 | The Sea Hawk by Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Niner Two by Don Ellis / Blue Rondo A La Turk by Dave Brubeck / Gaite Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 88.65 | 6th | |
| 1983 | The Orb and the Scepter by William Walton / The Lost Lady Found by Percy Grainger / Camelot Medley by Frederick Loewe / Sea Songs & The Running Set by Ralph Vaughan Williams / Danny Boy by Frederic Weatherly | 79.65 | 10th | |
| 1984 | Henry V by William Walton / Eric's Theme by Michel Legrand | 85.60 | 11th | |
| 1985 | The Sea Hawk by Erich Wolfgang Korngold / When I First Saw You / Company / Have I Got A Girl & Being Alive (from Company / Not While I'm Around (from Sweeney Todd all by Stephen Sondheim | 85.60 | 13th |