Friday, January 17, 2014

Gimme That Old Time Music


... And tonight, it's really old music.

First, the Chester Fife and Drum Corps, Chester, CT:


My uncle was a member of the Corps for something like 50 years. This is not the Col. John Chester Fife and Drum Corps, by the way.

That reminded me of their near-by competitors, the Ancient Mariners Fife and Drum Corps:

 

Although the Ancient Mariners have more members, they are a much newer group, founded in 1959. The Chester Corps dates from 1868.

The Ancient Mariners Fife and Drum Corps reminded of the completely-unrelated Ancient Mariners Dixieland Band (from MA):

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