About Us.... 

 

A street gang known as the Bachelors

Sparked the eAnergy and enthusiasm of the Morrison Lancers Organization.

 

Director Carmelo Saez and assistant Fred Perry in April 1961

Molded a dynamic and exciting drum & bugle corps.

 

In the early 70s the corps entered field competition with

17 horns,

20 flags, and 9 drummers.

Lancers rocked and raised the crowds to

their feet with leather stomping,

hand clapping sounds that highlighted

the corps natural flair for explosive performances.

Garden State, Eastern States,

United Organization of Eastern Corps and

Metropolitan Circuits were the stages for

Lancers presentations.

In 1976 revealed a new Lancers organization --

one designed to win…

 

”The corps motto was "Drum Corps is an Art”…

Expertise, knowledge and imagination of young instructors like…

Reginald Henry, Ruben Areola, and Johnny Otto

created a new image for drum corps fans to behold.

 

Then it Happen…

We Became the New York Lancers.

17 horns became 30,

9 drummers became 25…

The flags… Became… Star Guards…

Then the legends came.

Ricky Magnum,

Jose Velazquez

Glen Eng.

Jim Callahan, and Ralph Rolle...

 

Than The Magic of Bobby Gray,

Jerome Cleaved Moore and The Kids themselves …

we became great…

 

WE BECAME THE LANCERS…

The instructors were trained in the famous camps of Skylines, Bridgeman, St. Rita’s Brassmen and

The Knickerbockers, where excellence reigned.

Orchestrations and arrangements were penned by bugle master Hy Dreiser; and tone by Jose Velasquez and percussion and sound effects by Ricky Magnum…