Your All-Access Pass to the Marching Arts. In this Quick Sip, financial analyst and longtime drum corps participant Jeff Gill joins Trish O'Shea and Ricardo Robinson-Shinall for a focused look at the financial pressure facing DCI member corps. Jeff explains what he found while reviewing years of corps tax data, including rising spending, the relationship between budget and competitive placement, increasing reliance on member dues and reserves, and why financial sustainability is difficult to solve at both the corps and DCI levels.