Minnesota Brass Drum and Bugle Corps


The Minnesota Brass Drum and Bugle Corps is an all-age drum and bugle corps based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, that competes in Drum Corps Associates. A consistent DCA Finalist, Minnesota Brass was the 2011 DCA Open Class World Champion.

History

Minnesota Brass was founded in 1946 as the Cecil Kyle Legion Corps. Between the years of 1946 and 1968 the corps operated under the names of William Laidlaw Legion Corps, Laidlaw Toreaders, Grain Belt Diamonds, and Men of Laidlaw. In 1969, the organization became a self-supporting non-profit under the name of Brass, Inc. In 1980, the organization adopted the name Minnesota Brass, Inc.
Today, Minnesota Brass, Inc. is a non-profit performing arts organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota that operates five separate performing ensembles: Minnesota Brass, Minne-Brass, MBI Winter Guard, and Minnesota Brass Indoor Drum Line.
The all-age drum and bugle corps is the largest and most well known of the organization's ensembles. The corps performs under the name "Minnesota Brass." Friends and fans sometimes refer to it informally as simply "Brass" or "MBI." The more formal "Minnesota Brass Inc." name is now used rarely and only to refer to the organization as a whole.
The corps has competed in the Drum Corps Associates World Championships 34 times since 1973 and has placed in the top ten in Open Class competition every year since 1991, the second longest streak behind the Hawthorne Caballeros Drum and Bugle Corps. In 2011, Minnesota Brass won its first DCA Open Class World Championship title.
At its August 2018 meeting, the board of directors of Minnesota Brass voted to pursue an all-age drum and bugle corps to compete during the 2019 summer season.

Management

Minnesota Brass Incorporated is the corporate entity that manages the Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corps and other performing ensembles. The organization's management team is:
DCA World Champions: 2011
DCA Mini-Corps Champions: 1999, 2005
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DCA Colorguard Champions: 2011
DCA Horn Line Champions: 2010, 2011, 2015
DCA Frontline Champions: 2001, 2004, 2005
DCA Percussion Champions: 2003, 2004, 2010, 2013

Past Showshttp://www.dcxmuseum.org/index.cfm?view=corpslist&CorpsID=1863

Editors Note: This list is currently under construction. Formatting is being renovated. Thank you!
Gold background indicates DCA Open Class Championship; pale blue background indicates DCA Open Class Finalist
YearThemeRepertoireScorePlacement
2011ValhallaImmigrant Song by Led Zeppelin / Children's Hour of Dream by Charles Mingus /
Imagine by John Lennon / Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner		98.3501st
2012Bonnie and ClydeSummertime by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward /
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing by Duke Ellington /
Money by Roger Waters / Speechless by Stefani Germanotta /
Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a by Samuel Barber		96.2302nd
2013PRIMALRitual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla / Dansa Barbara by Neboisa Zivkovic /
Danza Final by Alberto Ginastera		96.6503rd
2014SuperNovaKnights of Cydonia by Matthew Bellamy / Subterranean Homesick Alien by Thom Yorke /
The Planets by Gustav Holst / Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre / Supernova		96.5302nd
2015Mad CircusKarn Evil 9 by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield /
The Breakfast Machine from Big Top Pee Wee by Danny Elfman /
Complainte Della Butte by Rufus Wainright / Roustabout by Beals Antique /
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky /
The Show Must Go On by John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian May 		95.4003rd
2016Now BoardingTo Tame the Perilous Skies by David Holsinger / Speed of Heat by Julie Giroux /
Come Fly With Me by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn / Married Life by Michael Giacchino /
Girl From Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim		96.9503rd
2017Pins & NeedlesHall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg /
March of the Trolls by Edvard Grieg / Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a by Samuel Barber /
Coraline by Bruno Courlais / Hurt by Trent Reznor		88.9809th
2018Corps inactive
2019