2008 Officers
Meets: 1st Tuesday of each month 7:30 PM Music Room
Max Reeves - Director - (816) 525-4811 Email:mre2844236@aol.com
Paul Clampitt - President - (816) 690-3128 / Cell (816) 305-3128 Email: paulclampitt@gmail.com
Norm Gross - Secretary - (816) 525-3158 / Cell (816) 812-2321 Email:Grossn@msn.com
Liaison - High Priest & Prophet

Ararat Drum & Bugle Corps Celebrates 85 Years of Excellence

The Drum and Bugle Corps was formed in 1921 by members living in the Independence, Mo. area and was named Tarara, which is Ararat spelled backward. The Corps has performed in almost every major city in the nation during Imperial Sessions from 1924 through the present.

As a marching musical unit, the Drum and Bugle Corps is very popular with the people attending parades and with other non-musical marching units by providing cadence and musical vitality to the many parades in our jurisdiction.

The Drum & Bugle Corps, and our crowd favorite Red Fire Truck appear in 8 to 10 parades a year. We parade mainly on Saturdays in communities from Warsaw to Sugar Creek and Independence to Boonville. We also compete once a year at our annual convention called CSSA. At CSSA we compete against Drum & Bugle Corps made up of Shriners from all over the mid-west.

Interested in joining one of the true legends in Kansas City music? It's easy, give our Membership Chairman a call and he'll get you all the information you need. The Corps meets for rehearsals March - October on Tuesday evenings between 7:30 - 9:00 at Ararat Shrine. We have a monthly business meeting on the 1st Tuesday of the month were we discuss the business of the unit and upcoming events.

There is nothing more fun then getting the opportunity to play your horn or drum, having fun with the Shriners and doing it all for the support of our kids in the Shrine Hospital program.

We March, so that our Kids may Walk!