Field Pass: Pacific Northwest drum corps
By Dan Potter | fieldpass@dci.org
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 11:38 AM
Spokane Thunder
Drum Corps in the Pacific Northwest is alive and well in 2008 despite the absence of the region's only World Class corps, Seattle Cascades, which chose to regroup this summer. In fact, as Dan Potter and correspondent Mike Ferlazzo report in today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian, this has been a banner season for the northwest's Open Class corps.
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Dan Potter has been hooked on drum corps and competitive marching band for 30 years. He is the announcer for many Drum Corps International and marching band shows nationwide and is the host of DCI's "Field Pass" podcast which covers the best in marching music.
Drum major of the Geneseo Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from 1979-1981, Potter has experience on the staff of the Glassmen and has taught or consulted high school marching bands in Indiana and Texas.
At home in Tulsa, Okla., Potter is news director and assistant program director for AM 740 and FM 102.3 NewsTalk KRMG. His journalism has been honored by several broadcast organizations including the 2000 Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for best radio newscast in the U.S. and, in 2004, Dan was part of a team of radio reporters awarded broadcast journalism’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton.
