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The Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums, [2] founded in 1958 [3] by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [4] is a professional corps made up of young musicians between the ages of 10 and 18. They are a fine representation of what a fife and drum corps would have looked and sounded like during the mid-eighteenth century when company fifers ...
The uniforms worn by the members of the Corps are dated circa 1781, and consist of black tricorn hats, white wigs, waistcoats, colonial coveralls, and red regimental coats. The 69-member Corps uses 10-hole fifes, handmade rope-tensioned drums and two-valve bugles, which bring to life the exciting sounds of the Continental Army.
Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Conservatoire at the Victory Parade on Red Square, 2010. Corps of Drums at a tattoo (Großer Zapfenstreich) in Germany, 2002. British Corps of Drums. A corps of drums, sometimes known as a fife and drum corps or simply field music, is a traditional European military music formation.
Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps is an Ancient Fife and Drum Corps based in North Haven, Connecticut, and is a member of the Connecticut Fifers and Drummers Association. [1] Lancraft was founded in 1888 by conservative Freemasons, but over the years has become the pride of Irish Americans. [2] [3] Lancraft Fife and Drum Corps Deep River Ancient ...
The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps marches in Colonial style red-coated uniforms—to be "better seen through the smoke of battle"; the uniforms also include cocked hats and white powdered wigs. The drum major of the Fife and Drum Corps traditionally bears an espontoon (a historic pike-like weapon) in his right hand to direct and command his unit.
The rhythm of the St. Patrick’s Day parade was kept by members of the Rochester Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps. As they beat on their drums down Main Street near the Hyatt Regency ...
Norwood Colonial Boys FDC is an Irish-American fife and drum corps based in Norwood, MA. It was founded in 1953 after the dissolution of the Saint Catherine of Siena fife and drum corps in Norwood, MA. [ 1 ]
The three Belleville drum and bugle corps are long gone but certainly not forgotten.. Every sweaty mile marching the streets of Belleville and other more distant towns, every sack lunch or night ...