Puerto Vallarta’s International Celtic Music Festival
The Los Angeles Fifes and Drums made their first International appearance at Puerto Vallarta’s International Celtic Music Festival on March 6-7, 2015. It was a great experience for all of us, and we enjoyed the great camaraderie amongst all the musicians. We hope to be able to do it again. What a great way to […]
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All smiles
All smiles from the Los Angeles Fifes & Drums waiting to take centre stage at the Sesquicentennial Games Friday Night Concert.
The Story of “Drums, Dreams and History”
The drum played by Robert Bain of the Los Angeles Veteran Drum Corps – Anoka County Historical Society, Anoka, Minnesota. “It began when a drum was brought to America, probably around 1776, by Hessian soldiers who had been hired to help the British army quell what was then seen as a colonial uprising. During the Battle […]
CIVIL WAR VETERAN BURIED
Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1930. Philo L. Case, Drummer Whose Signal Started Battle of Shiloh, Mourned by Comrades Philo L. Case, Civil War drummer, the man who sounded the long roll which started the Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, was buried in Los Angeles yesterday. A member of the Second Iowa Infantry on […]
CIVIL WAR DRUMMER DIES HERE
Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1923. Robert Bain, Forty Years in State, Engaged in Construction Business Robert Bain died early yesterday morning at his home at 332 West Sixty-Seventh Street. Mr. Bain, who was 80 years of age, was a Civil War veteran. For many years he had been affiliated with the Stanton Post of […]
LAST CALL FOR AGED COMRADE
Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1916. Drummer Hilliker Sinks into His Final Sleep Just Before Passing He Plans Care of Instrument Was Given Medal of Honor for Bravery in Action Facing death with the same courage that had won him a special medal of honor from Congress and carried him through many battles of the […]
Drums and Fifes That Led Brave Men in Many Wars Today Are Played in Reno
Reno Evening Gazette, June 10, 1913, page 23. Drums and Fifes That Led Brave Men in Many Wars Today Are Played in Reno. When the familiar strains of ‘Marching Through Georgia’ or some other patriotic air is heard from fifes and drums on the streets these days, Renoites feel an almost irresistible desire to march. […]
Civil War veterans march in Memorial Day Parade
Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1912 The Memorial Day parade included many local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic organization. About 700 Civil War veterans marched in the parade.
BATTLE-SCARRED VETERANS OF LOS ANGELES FIFE AND DRUM CORPS AT G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT, WHOSE AGES TOTAL 1,024 YEARS
Mansfield News, Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday Evening, August 24, 1911. Rochester, N. Y. — A conspicuous delegation attending the Grand Army encampment is the old Los Angeles Veteran Fife and Drum corps. There are fifteen of these veterans, and each saw active service during the war. All of them have battle scars. The ages of the […]
