When Dom Flemons was in the studio making his album Prospect Hill, the engineer made a casual comment that pushed the material in an unexpected direction. “Maybe you should sell some of those beats to ...

Established with just two drummers and two fifers, the first of whom was self-taught, the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums has come a long way in 60 years. Few people understand that better than ...

In a tribute to early American martial music, 600 members of fife-and-drum corps convene in Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. for the annual National Muster. Participants range from teenagers to septuagenarians.

Musicians on a British battlefield date from the 16th century, but by the second half of the 18th century most French, German and English army units and militia units in the American colonies had ...

The Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter Sons of the American Revolution’s Frederick Town Fife and Drum Corps hosted leaders from the Colonial Williamsburg’s Fife and Drum Corps who recently conducted ...

DEEP RIVER — The sound of drums and fifes will once again fill the streets of Deep River this summer as the Deep River Ancient Muster makes its triumphant return. The event, which is described as the ...

A group of young musicians honored veterans at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., continuing a tradition that goes back to the American Revolution. The musicians of the Fife & Drum ...

AND BASED IN PORTSMOUTH AND FEATURES MUSICIANS WHY JUST KIDS. THERE WAS A LOT TO SEE AT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FOURTH OF JULY PARADE IN PORTSMOUTH. RESIDENTS AND PETS DECKED OUT IN RED, WHITE, AND BLUE.

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