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  2. Ferko String Band - Wikipedia

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    In 1914 pharmacy student Joseph A. Ferko asked the owner of Fralinger's Drugs to sponsor a string band in the Mummers parade. The request was granted, and Ferko led the "Fralinger String Band" for several years, placing third in their 1915 attempt [1] but winning in 1920. [2] The "Ferko String Band" had its beginnings in 1922. [3]

  3. Mummers Parade - Wikipedia

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    The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia.Started in 1901, it is the longest-running continuous folk parade in the United States. [1]Local clubs, usually called "New Years Associations" or "New Years Brigades", compete in one of five categories: Comics, Wench Brigades, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades.

  4. Category:The Incredible String Band members - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 November 2018, at 13:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Greater Kensington (string band) - Wikipedia

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    The band is a charter member of the Philadelphia Mummers String Band Association and, as such, can never change its name. [citation needed] So when the band moved in 1966 to Tacony, it still carried the name of Greater Kensington String Band. [citation needed] The band owns its headquarters on Edmund Street in Northeast Philadelphia.

  6. Licorice McKechnie - Wikipedia

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    Christina "Licorice" McKechnie (born 2 October 1945) is a Scottish musician. She was a singer and songwriter in the Incredible String Band between 1968 and 1972. Her whereabouts have been publicly unknown since 1986, when she was last seen hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.

  7. Clive Palmer (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Clive Harold Palmer (14 May 1943 – 23 November 2014) was an English folk musician and banjoist, best known as a founding member of the Incredible String Band. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography

  8. The Incredible String Band - Wikipedia

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    The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966. [1] The band built a considerable following, especially in the British counterculture , notably with their albums The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (1967), The ...

  9. List of Electric Light Orchestra members - Wikipedia

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    For the band's fourth album, Eldorado, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped multi-tracking strings and hired Louis Clark as string arranger with an orchestra and choir. [8] ELO's string players still continued to perform on recordings.