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INTRODUCTION:
While many musical groups, including community bands, typically start with all of the best intentions and the highest enthusiasm levels humanly possible, unfortunately sometimes things happen and the bands often dissolve just over the course of a few years or so.
In fact, a fairly recent publication from a Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio) group has listed the names of @ 25 different bands and musical groups of various sizes and instrumentations that were active in that area at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's.
Of all of that number of instrumental musical groups, only one band in that area still survives, The Adelphi Community Band, which proudly claims its start date as 1880.
While The Circelville Pumpkin Show Community Band cannot yet claim that kind of longevity, it HAS been active for parts of 5 decades, and still has a core group of loyal members who have been with the band since the start. It also can proudly boast of members who have remained active with the band for several years, and even over several decades.
Which is why preserving the history of the group, and its members, is so important.
Just like ex-Presidents of the United States typically establish their official libraries in order to preserve the history of their time in that office, so should community bands have their own "presidential libraries".
For community bands, however, these library materials come in the form of old Concert Programs, yearly lists of the performances for that year, newsletters in which band activities and interests are discussed and shared, newspaper articles, and a number of other items.
The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band certainly deserves its own "Presidential Library", and this web site is an attempt to create that for them.
Over the various pages of the band's web site, in addition to several hundred pictures and links to approximately 100 Youtube videos of their performances, you will find copies of old programs, newspaper articles, concert play lists, newsletters send out to the band members, and digital scans of just about anything that could be found related to the band's activities over the years, or of the band members individually.
While the physical mechanics of scanning all these documents and placing them on the web pages are not necessarily time consuming, taking the time to read over and enjoy the materials, some of which I have never seen before and some of which I haven't seen for years, definitely slowed the progress of this project down considerably.
Perhaps you will enjoy seeing these the materials too..... whether it is for the first time, or for the first time in a long time.
If anyone has anything that they wish to add to this web page, contact me at:
[email protected]
But for now, you can go back up to the MENU and select if you want to review:
While many musical groups, including community bands, typically start with all of the best intentions and the highest enthusiasm levels humanly possible, unfortunately sometimes things happen and the bands often dissolve just over the course of a few years or so.
In fact, a fairly recent publication from a Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio) group has listed the names of @ 25 different bands and musical groups of various sizes and instrumentations that were active in that area at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's.
Of all of that number of instrumental musical groups, only one band in that area still survives, The Adelphi Community Band, which proudly claims its start date as 1880.
While The Circelville Pumpkin Show Community Band cannot yet claim that kind of longevity, it HAS been active for parts of 5 decades, and still has a core group of loyal members who have been with the band since the start. It also can proudly boast of members who have remained active with the band for several years, and even over several decades.
Which is why preserving the history of the group, and its members, is so important.
Just like ex-Presidents of the United States typically establish their official libraries in order to preserve the history of their time in that office, so should community bands have their own "presidential libraries".
For community bands, however, these library materials come in the form of old Concert Programs, yearly lists of the performances for that year, newsletters in which band activities and interests are discussed and shared, newspaper articles, and a number of other items.
The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band certainly deserves its own "Presidential Library", and this web site is an attempt to create that for them.
Over the various pages of the band's web site, in addition to several hundred pictures and links to approximately 100 Youtube videos of their performances, you will find copies of old programs, newspaper articles, concert play lists, newsletters send out to the band members, and digital scans of just about anything that could be found related to the band's activities over the years, or of the band members individually.
While the physical mechanics of scanning all these documents and placing them on the web pages are not necessarily time consuming, taking the time to read over and enjoy the materials, some of which I have never seen before and some of which I haven't seen for years, definitely slowed the progress of this project down considerably.
Perhaps you will enjoy seeing these the materials too..... whether it is for the first time, or for the first time in a long time.
If anyone has anything that they wish to add to this web page, contact me at:
[email protected]
But for now, you can go back up to the MENU and select if you want to review:
- News Articles and Programs, or
- Newsletters