Keywords: Town bands
Item 17864
Cape Elizabeth Fire Department Band, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936-02-15 Location: Cape Elizabeth; Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Item 17872
Cape Elizabeth Fire Department Band, 1933
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1933 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
Item 151580
Winthrop Library, Winthrop, 1916
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Winthrop Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands
"1950Maine Historical Society Town bands carried on the marching tradition of military bands after the Civil War, with uniforms often resembling the…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"The early mailmen wore tall hats with wide bands, and as they collected letters along the way, they tucked them into those hatbands."
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block
"… $1.00 each and it was hosted by the Bath Cornet Band. Columbia Theatre program, Bath, 1937Patten Free Library One of the major events that…"
Story
Jim Paquette - preserving his Franco-American and musical roots
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Lead singer of the iconic Black Hart Band shares insights of his life journey.
Story
Sam Smithwick:From Southern rock star to local community builder
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Sam found his home in Maine and dedicates his talents to the growth of our evolving community.
