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The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps.. A fife and drum corps is a musical ensemble consisting of fifes and drums.In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial period impressions using fifes, rope tension snare drums and rope tension bass drums are known as Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. [1]
The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps perform during a State Arrival Ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House.. The musicians of this unit recall the fifes and drums from the days of the American Revolution as they perform in uniforms patterned after those worn by the musicians of Gen. George Washington's 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.
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 ...
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.
Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps was an American disco group in existence from 1975 to 1978. The assemblage of studio musicians (which, contrary to its name, had no fife players) were put together by Harold Wheeler; the group's vocalists were Linda November, Vivian Cherry, Arlene Martell, and Helen Miles.
“This drum line is my passion,” said longtime Free Players conductor Leah Allison Saitta, a 35-year-old from Commack with Down syndrome, to The Post. “I’ve got a good corps. They always ...
Hannum grew up in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. When Hannum was 10, he began to play the drums with the Brookhaven Crusaders, a local drum corps located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He continued to play throughout high school and joined the marching band at West Chester University where he studied history and secondary education. [4]