The Vegas Blackjack have announced that they will march in Fruhauf Uniforms. The style of uniforms can be seen on their website http://www.fruhauf.com/, the style is #34. The colors will be changed to red and black with a red spade in replacement of the existing logo.

Vegas Blackjack 2004 Season Repertoire
"House of Cards"
Songs Include
"Spades"
"Hearts"
"Clubs"
"Diamonds"

The Vegas Blackjack Drum and Bugle Corps is a non-profit organization that was created to help youth to further their development in aspects of music, communitity service, work ethic, character building, and in working as a team. Blackjack is the first Drum and Bugle Corps in Nevada and hopes to attract youth not only from the Las Vegas area. They hope to build on for the future using the ideals of "Glory and Honor". This is the motto for the Vegas Blackjack Drum and Bugle Corps and it stands for their belief that glory and honor will come through their work.

Announcement from VBD&BC:
May 20th, 2004

Aaron Sanborn
Coprs Director

We thank all of those who have attended our audition camps from May 7th-9th and May 14th-16th. Also we thank those who helped with the camps, especially David Morris for helping us to use the Shadow Ridge High School facillities for our camps. We have auditioned everyone and gone through all of the tapes and our corps is now set. We will be marching the following instruments:

Drumline: 5 Pearl FFX-1311 Championship Snares, red and black marble finish
5 Pearl Championship Bass Drums, red and black marble finish, sizes 16", 18", 22", 26", 30"
5 Pearl Championship Quints, red and black marble finish, sizes 6,8,10,12,13
5 Zildjian A Stadium 14" Cymbals
(20 total)

Pit:15 members (instruments not decided yet)
(15 total)

Horns:15 trumpets
25 mellophones
17 baritiones
15 tubas
(72 total)

Color Gaurd:28 Flags/Rifles/Sabers

(28 total)

Total Number in Corps: 135

Those who have made it have been contacted and our summer tour will begin June 5th. Congratulations and thank you to all those who have auditioned. We will see you June 5th.

Aaron Sanborn
Corps Director
Vegas Blackjack Drum and Bugle Corps

Drum Major, Section Leader and Staff Announcement:

The Drum Majors for this season will be:
Nick Tutario and Justin Everheart.

Drum Captain:
Michael Castillo

Gaurd Captain:
Danielle Lucus

Brass Captain:
Timothy Vililarde

Directors
Corps Director: Aaron Sanborn
Tour Director: James Fauklner
Arranger: Key Poulan
Drill Design: David Morris

Staff
Percussion: Caption head-Paul Cisily
Snare Tech-Joe Malone
Tenor Tech-James Hylton
Bass Tech-Mark Johnson
Cymbals-James Smith
Pit-Orlando Santos

Brass: Caption Head-Scott Watson
High Brass Tech-Brian Lewis
Low Brass Tech-David Johnson

Gaurd: Caption Head-Danielle Sanborn
Instructors:Lendel Sutherby, Ashley Foreman

Aaron Sanborn
Corps Director
VBD&BC

Vegas Blackjack Tour Schedule:
Date Location
06/18
06/20
06/21
06/22 Fresno, CA
06/23
06/24 Vancouver, WA
06/25 Spokane, WA
06/26 Seattle, WA
06/27 Kelso, WA
06/28
06/29
06/30 Bakersfield, CA
07/01 Modesto, CA
07/02 Riverside, CA
07/03 Walnut, CA
07/04
07/05 San Diego, CA
07/06
07/07 Salt Lake City, UT
07/08
07/09 Reno, NV
07/10
07/11 Ogden, UT
07/12
07/13
07/14
07/15
07/16
07/17
07/18 Raleigh, NC
07/19 Clarksburg, WV
07/20 Scranton, PA
07/21
07/22 Rosemont, IL
07/23
07/24
07/25 Massillon, OH
07/26 Addison, IL
07/27 Lancaster, PA
07/28 St. Peters, MO
07/29
07/30
07/31
08/01
08/02
08/03
08/04
08/05