Kitchener-Waterloo Drum Corps Association
The Kiwanis Kavaliers, through 1993, were one of 4 drum corps sharing the same membership base out of K-W (with a combined population, at that time, of about 200,000). The Dutchboy and Dutchboy Cadets were under the same parent organization so KW had 3 separate, fairly successful drum corps organizations, with likely the best years being in the late 80s/early 90s when Dutchboy were hovering around 12th-14th in Open class, Ventures were winning A class and Kavaliers were around 3rd-5th in A). The fact that all 3 organizations were competitive with each other but still able to field units that were competitive in the activity was impressive and likely not matched by any other city in North America, ever. Many ask (and have asked) the question "Why didn't all 3 groups come together to form one 'Super Corps' to blast into DCI's top 12?" The simple answer is because we were happy and healthy as separate units (and a mistake by one doesn't take down the whole house of cards). Also, only one corps was doing the full summer tour while the others still allowed their members to hold summer jobs, etc. and this was seen as a good thing.
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