Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps


The Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Dubuque, Iowa, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International and is the feeder corps for the World Class Colts Drum and Bugle Corps.

History

In the Fall of 1966, the Colts, then known as the Legionnaires formed a cadet "feeder" corps named the Legionnaires B Drum and Bugle Corps. Sonia Hickson was the first director of the Cadets, and she was assisted by members of the "A" corps. In 1969, the Legionnaires changed their name to the Colt.45, and the Legionnaires B became the Colt.45 Cadets. When the Colts dropped the.45 in 1976, the feeder corps took its present name of the Colt Cadets, although they were frequently referred to as the Colts, Too. Although the "A" corps had become a field competition corps the year before the "B" corps was founded, the Cadets performed only in parades and stand-still exhibitions for many years. During the 1980s the Colt Cadets also went on to the competition, entering shows in the Cadet Corps International, Illinois-All American Drum Corps Association, and Drum Corps Midwest circuits. The Cadets attended their first Drum Corps International World Championships at Kansas City in 1988. In 2010–15 the Colt Cadets were finalists in the DCI Open Class World Championships in Michigan City, Indiana.

Sponsorship

The Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Colts Youth Organization, a 501 musical organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. The Executive Director is Jeff MacFarlane. The Colts Youth Organization also sponsors the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps; Vocal Fusion, a singing group for students in grades 3 through 8; PanrhythmiX and Pandemonium, steel drum performance groups for elementary and middle school students; and the Colts Summer Band for students in grades 4 through 8.

Show Summary(1988–2020)

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Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist.
YearThemeRepertoireScorePlacement
1988Repertoire unavailable37.50024th Class A60
1989Repertoire unavailable38.90023rd Class A60
1990–1991Repertoire unavailableDid not attend
1992Repertoire unavailable48.60024th Div.III
1993–1994Repertoire unavailableDid not attend
1995Simple Songs
from Your Childhood		Simple Gifts by Joseph Brackett / I'm a Little Teapot by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley /
A-Tisket-a-Tasket / Chopsticks by Euphemia Allen /
Pentatonic Nightmare / Brahms' Lullaby by Johannes Brahms		Did not attend
1996Americana
Celebration		Shall We Gather at the River? by Robert Lowrey / Yankee Doodle /
Suite of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland		Did not attend
1997Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory		Golden Ticket, Oompa Loompa, Wondrous Boat Ride, I Want It Now, Pure Imagination, and Candy Man
All from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley		Did not attend
1998Bon Voyage by Cole Porter / Day-O /
Limbo Rock by Kal Mann and Billy Strange / Island in the Sun by Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie /
Jamaica Farewell by Lord Burgess / Hot, Hot, Hot by Arrow 		Did not attend
1999Hooked On The
Weather Channel		Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison /
Let The Sunshine In by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni /
Let it Snow by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn / Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head by Hal David and Burt Bacharach /
Singin' in the Rain by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed /
Stormy Weather Medley by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler / Blue Skies by Irving Berlin /
You are My Sunshine © by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell 		Did not attend
2000Trapped in the
Time Machine		2001: A Space Odyssey by Richard Strauss / The Loco-Motion by Gerry Goffin and Carole King /
Bicycle Built for Two by Harry Dacre / Pedestrian's Folly /
Cruisin' by Smokey Robinson / Magic Carpet Ride by John Kay and Rushton Moreve		Did not attend
2001A Sailor's Life For Me / Tame the Savage Sea by Elliot del Borgo / The Pirate's Tale /
Russian Sailor's Dance by Reinhold Glière /
Anchors Aweigh by Charles A. Zimmerman and Alfred Hart Miles		Did not attend
2002Make 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		Did not attend
2003OzFestOver the Rainbow by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg /
I'm a Mean Ole Lion, Slide Some Oil to Me, Ease on Down the Road & If You Believe by Charlie Smalls		Did not attend
2004Snoop DogLinus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi /
Snoopy's Song & Dime A Dozen by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady /
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by Phil Gernhard and Dick Holler /
The World According to Snoopy & It's the Reprise, Charlie Brown
by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady		Did not attend
2005Arcade!Insert Coin, The Puzzle, The Chase, The Triumph Did not attend
2006Criminal MischiefDragnet Theme by Miklós Rózsa and Walter Schumann /
Secret Agent Man by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri / James Bond Theme by John Barry /
Call Me, Beep Me! by Cory Lerios and George Gabriel /
Carmen Sandiego by Sean Altman and David Yazbek / Charlie's Angels Theme by Jack Elliott and Allyn Ferguson /
Live and Let Die by Paul and Linda McCartney		66.37511th Div.II
2007Sold Out!Carry on Wayward Son by Kerry Livgren / Point of Know Return by Phil Ehart, Robby Steinhardt, and Steve Walsh /
Lights by Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw / Synchronicity I by Sting /
All The Small Things by Tom DeLonge / Ants Marching by Dave Matthews		Did not attend
2008New American
Signatures		America & American Tune by Paul Simon / Song for America by Kerry Livgren76.12519th Open Cl.
2009Lullabye & Good
Nightmare		Theme by Danny Elfman /
The Place Where Dreams Come True by James Horner /
Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg		78.10014th Open Cl.
2010Sorcerer's RevengeMusic of Andew Boysen, Jr / The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas /
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / For Good by Stephen Schwartz		82.30011th Open Cl.
2011NOTORIOUSOverture by Franz Waxman / Overture by Bronislau Kaper /
Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland / Finale & The Immigrant by Nino Rota /
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich		79.150
54.300		12th Open Cl.
37th World Cl.
2012Alive!Escape From Chronopolis by Reber Clark / Theme by Alan Silvestri /
Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Theme from Psycho by Bernard Herrmann /
Facade by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse		75.400
57.950		12th Open Cl.
33rd World Cl.
2013RedHabanera by Georges Bizet / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Dave Grusin /
Happy Ending by Aaron Copland / Red in the Air by Terry White and Brian Zeglis		80.900
63.100		10th Open Cl.
32nd World Cl.
2014CrazedOverture by Björk / Equus by Eric Whitacre /
Crazy by Brian Burton and Thomas Callaway, Gian Franco Reverberi, and Gian Piero Reverberi /
Goin' Out of My Head by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein / Love Crazed by Terry White & Brian Zeglis		66.000
63.150		10th Open Class
32nd World Class
2015Fire & IceThe Inferno by Robert W. Smith / Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky /
Cuban Fire! by Johnny Richards / Ice Dance by Danny Elfman / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed		64.100
57.150		10th Open Class
35th World Class
2016Journey WithinJoy by Joseph Curiale / Symphony No. 9 in D minor by Anton Bruckner / Smile by Charlie Chaplin /
Ode to Joy from Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven		61.550
57.650		15th Open Class
37th World Class
2017The River's EdgeEarth Dance by Michael Sweeney / Flight of the Piasa by Robert Sheldon /
Quad City Stomp by Michael Sweeney / Vitava by Bedrich Smetana		61.200
62.000		14th Open Class
36th World Class
2018ModerneUn Bel Di by Giacomo Puccini / Symphony No. 7, 2nd Mvmt. by Ludwig van Beethoven /
Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels / Bad Romance by Stefani Germanotta and Nadir Khayat /
The Hut of Baba Yaga & The Great Gates of Kiev by Modest Mussorgsky		62.80013th Open Class
38th World Class
2019Of a FeatherBlackbird by John Lennon and Paul McCartney / Don't Stop Me Now by Freddie Mercury /
On Eagles Wings by Michael Joncas / The Raven by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson		65.600
64.425		11th Open Class
33rd World Class
2020Season cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic