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The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps.. A fife and drum corps is a musical ensemble consisting of fifes and drums.In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial period impressions using fifes, rope tension snare drums and rope tension bass drums are known as Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. [1]
Fife and drum blues is an American folk music form derived from country blues, martial music tradition, and African rhythms. It is performed typically with one lead fife player and a troop of drummers. Unlike a drum corps, the drum troop is loosely structured. As such, a fife and drum band may have a variable number of snare, tom, and bass drum ...
A corps of drums, sometimes known as a fife and drum corps or simply field music, is a traditional European military music formation. Historically, a Corps of Drums' primary role was communication. [1] Today, the primary role of a Corps of Drums is ceremonial, performing in parades and military ceremonies. [2]
The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps perform during a State Arrival Ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House.. The musicians of this unit recall the fifes and drums from the days of the American Revolution as they perform in uniforms patterned after those worn by the musicians of Gen. George Washington's Continental Army.
A fife (/ f aɪ f / FYFE) is a small, high-pitched, transverse aerophone, that is similar to the piccolo.The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands.
Members of the Rochester Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on March 16, 2024. The rhythm of the St. Patrick’s Day parade was kept by members of the ...
Turner's Rising Star Fife and Drum Band (which consisted of friends and relatives) primarily played at farm parties. [2] In the early 1970s the band was called "The Gravel Springs Fife & Drum Band" with Napoleon Strickland, GD Young and "Cag" Young as well as Bernice Turner as members of the group.
The Middlesex County Volunteers (MCV) is a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit fife and drum corps that plays music from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Founded in 1982 at the end of the United States Bicentennial celebration, the group is composed of musicians and Color Guard, sixteen years and older.