Division DCA Open Class Website www.carolinagold.org | Founded 2000 | |
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Location Greensboro, North Carolina Uniform Black and Cream Coat with Gold inlay, Black bib trousers, and black shako. | ||
Carolina Gold Drum and Bugle Corps is an all age competitive and fraternal organization with over 100 members throughout the state of North Carolina and the entire Southeast. Although once based in Rocky Mount, NC in its earlier years, Carolina Gold now rehearses at facilities just outside Greensboro, North Carolina.
Established in the fall of 2000, the primary function of Carolina Gold is to provide a drum and bugle corps for the state of North Carolina. Gold strives to provide its performing members with a stimulating and rewarding instructional, competitive, and social experience. Performance units of this award-winning Corps consists of the horn line, the battery (drum line), front ensemble (pit), and a visual ensemble (color guard).
Carolina Gold members are a diverse group of high school and college musicians, band directors, business people, parents, coming from all walks of life. Members come from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with ages ranging from 16 to over 50 years of age. Experience levels range from high school through college band as well as drum and bugle corps experience on the DCI World Class level.
Carolina Gold is a member of Drum Corps Associates (DCA), a governing body for senior and all-age drum and bugle corps in North America and competes against other member corps in the Class A designation (a Corps with a minimum of 35, but no more than 65 members).
The DCA competitive season begins in June and ends with the DCA World Championships taking place each year on Labor Day Weekend. Practices and performances are scheduled on weekends with rehearsals occurring bi-weekly starting in the winter months.
Carolina Gold finished in eighth place in Open Class at the 2005 DCA World Championships and in tenth place at the 2006 DCA World Championships in Rochester, NY. In 2009, Gold finished in fourth place in Class A at the 2009 DCA World Championships. In 2010, Gold placed third at the 2010 Championship along with receiving the High Percussion Award. In 2011, Gold once again finished third in Class A at the DCA World Championships and also won first place colorguard and again won the Class A high percussion award. In 2012, Carolina Gold was crowned the DCA Class A World Champion. The Corps once again won first place colorguard and first place percussion. For the first time in the Corps history, Carolina Gold won first place in the Brass and Visual captions.