NAMPA, Idaho — As football season kicks off across the country, halftime shows take center stage — and two Idaho musicians know what it takes to perform at the highest level of marching music.

Drum Corps International, known as "Marching Music's Major League," recently crowned new world champions, with local connections to both current and past titleholders.

Jeff Paradis, now director of bands at Ridgevue High School, earned a world championship with the Blue Devils in 2009. He describes the intensity of drum corps competition as almost indescribable.

Jeff Paradis and Kadin Thompson-Bailey talk about their DCI experiences 16 years apart— Two Idaho musicians reach the pinnacle of marching music with Drum Corps International World Championships

"It is so intense that it is almost inde

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