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Aqua String Band's 2011 Performance - "Aqua Has A-Peel!" The Aqua String Band is an all-volunteer string band, best known for its participation in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade. [1] The band was founded in 1920, and participated in its first Mummers Parade on New Year's Day in 1921. [2] [3] By 1949, this ensemble was the largest string ...
Two years later, she was towed to Pier 82 on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia where she remains today. The ship was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. A preservation group called the SS United States Conservancy has been raising funds since 2009 to keep the ship afloat while exploring potential new uses, as a ...
In 1971 Bossin met Marie-Lynn Hammond, a young, bilingual singer and songwriter. He recruited Jerry Lewycky, a violin student at University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, to accompany them on fiddle. The configuration – guitar, banjo, fiddle and voices – was that of a string band, one of the traditional North American folk music forms.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
Aqua String Band; G. Greater Kensington (string band) P. Pennsport (string band) This page was last edited on 19 August 2022, at 22:36 (UTC). Text is available ...
1966: The Incredible String Band (The Incredible String Band) 1967: Banjoland (released in 2005) 1969: Sunshine Possibilities (Famous Jug Band) 1971: Spirit of Love (Clive's Original Band) 1972: Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (Clive's Original Band) 1978: Just Me – Autogram; 1989: The Archive Tapes; 1993: Charlie ...
Aqua’s René Dif, Lene Nystrøm, and Søren Rasted were on a flight from their native Denmark to San Francisco, to play the first date of their current U.S. tour, when the 66th annual Grammy ...
The band was founded in Toronto in 1971 by the core duo of Marie-Lynn Hammond (b. 1948 in Montreal) and Bob Bossin, (b. 1946 in Toronto), along with violinist Jerry Lewycky. The name "String Band" was a common appellation amongst folk groups, usually with an identifying characteristic or location attached, as with the Incredible String Band or ...