The weekend of February 17 and 18 saw the first full camp of the Bushwackers in its new home, "Bushwacker Hall", in Franklin in snow covered Sussex County New Jersey. (Click here for a picture of the hall) The new corps hall offers a wealth of amenities for a drum corps, plenty of rehearsal space for all sections, Storage for the equipment in a controlled environment, sleeping quarters for out of town members and a spacious office suite from which to run the corps.

The hall also offers a storefront on Main Street that the corps plans on utilizing as a Thrift shop to help fund the corps with. During the entire weekend, Many alums dropped by with donations for the thrift store. The corps hopes to have the store up and running sometime early Spring.

Once the members got acquainted with their new surroundings, It was "back to work" for the 2007 edition of the Bushwackers. The corps welcomed new members in both the brass section and percussion section this weekend and this puts the corps on course to field another large corps this summer.

Arranger Al Dicroce was in from sunny Florida to hear the brass and percussion ensemble the 1st half of the show, (click here to hear a clip from the show) and Jamey Thompson, Visual consultant, flew in from Chicago to start planning the visual package with caption head Steve Rinda.

Both Al and Jamey were quite impressed after Sunday's rehearsal. The corps also welcomed visits from consultants Jim Mallen, Jeff Mitchell, And Gene Bennett this past weekend.

On Sunday, February 25th, the defending DCA color guard champs had their first winter rehearsal on with close to 30 in attendance. Caption Head Scott Marshman said this year's guard might be the most talented Bush has ever had.

The corps will be performing in 2 parades in March and 2 camps are planned also to finish the music book. For any and all information about the Bushwackers, Please visit our website www.bushwackers.org.

The Bushwackers are still accepting members for the 2007 season. Come to our next rehearsal Saturday, March 10. (click here for our schedule page) If you would like information on becoming a member of the six time DCA World Champion, and reigning brass and color guard champion Bushwackers, please fill out our membership form at www.bushwackers.org or email us by clicking here.