High school drumlines from around the country are gearing up for one of the biggest competitions of their lives. Oregon drumline preps for national competition: ‘You have to have fun or you’re not ...

NPR's Deepa Shivaram breaks down the Biden Administration's new rule requiring anyone who sells guns to run background checks. Then, OJ Simpson has died at 76. Laurie Levenson, who was an analyst for ...

, a Portland-based team of 29 young drummers and percussionists, won a gold medal Friday night at the World Drumline Championships in Ohio."We smoked them!" declared Philip Marshall, director of the ...

The Kingsmen Thunder Drumline at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon, just returned from their first appearance at the Percussion World Championships. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd has an update.

Year One has been a very good one for Oregon Crusaders Indoor, which goes into today's World Drumline Championships leading its class. The drumline's 29 young drummers and percussionists perform their ...

High school drumlines from around the country are gearing up for one of the biggest competitions of their lives. High school drumlines from around the country are gearing up for one of the biggest ...

Grant Lord (right) plays with the snare drummers of the Kingsmen Thunder Drumline at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon. (Courtesy of René Ormae-Jarmer) This article is more than 1 year old.

Here & Now ’s Deepa Fernandes meets one of the bands going to the Percussion World Championships in Ohio for the first time. She speaks with René Ormae-Jarmer, director of the Kingsmen Thunder ...