Bayou City Blues Drum & Bugle Corps is celebrating our 35th Anniversary in 2026. Three and a half decades of fun, friendship, and great music will come together on the field this season with Birdland and Freebird.

 

Birdland is a jazz classic, made famous by the vocal band Weather Report and Trumpet superstar Maynard Ferguson. This toe tapper also has history with BCB, being featured in our highly entertaining 2017 program “Jazz After Dark.”  This season the Corps has been blessed with a number of lead players and soloists, so our new arrangement heavily resembles the Maynard version. It will be high energy, high octane... and high OCTAVE!

 

Freebird has been a standard with BCB (and GCS) since 2007. We even performed it at the funeral of our late Corps Director, Brian Wilt, at the request of his son. Given its history and emotional depth, it seemed a fitting way to close out our 35th Anniversary. However, as awesome as this Lynyrd Skynyrd classic is, we added an extra spicy old-school drum corps finale that will leave the audience standing, cheering, and screaming “FREEBIIIIRD!!”

 

Join us for the Texas Color Guard Circuit’s Indoor Winds 2026 season as we celebrate how “Time Flies

First Rehearsal Video