NO FOOLIN’ JAM SESSION

IRISH-AMERICAN CENTER 375 ONTARIO ST. ALBANY, NY, United States

Enjoy a great afternoon of music and socializing with many of your fife and drum friends. We will be serving complementary beverages and snacks and we will again be treating all of our guests to a mid-afternoon buffet! We will be holding a raffle to help defray the cost of the jam. If you wish … Continue reading

LEXINGTON F. & D. MUSTER

MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK LEXINGTON, MA, United States

This has become a cherished annual event in Lexington, taking place during the first weekend of May, and attended by corps from all over New England, and beyond. Contact: Carmfifes@gmail.com Phone: (508) 278-2803

DEEP RIVER F. & D. MUSTER

DEEP RIVER, CT DEVITT FIELD

The parade starts at the corner of Main and Kirtland Streets and proceeds down Main Street to Devitt’s Field. The DRAM is the oldest and largest gathering of fife and drum participants and enthusiasts in the world and has been referred to as “The Granddaddy of All Musters”, and “A Colonial Woodstock”. July 14-15 (Fri-Sat) … Continue reading

WESTBROOK MUSTER

WESTBROOK, CT Ted Lane Ball Field in Westbrook (18 South Main Street).

August 24https://www.hauleymusic.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=334&action=edit-25 (Fri-Sat) Time: TATTOO FRI. 7 PM. PARADE SAT. 11 PM. MUSTER TO FOLLOW The Westbrook Boy Scouts will be serving a variety of different treats at the field. A muster meal will be provided for participating corps in the firehouse from 3-5pm. Limited camping is available on a first come first serve basis. … Continue reading

Sudbury Colonial Faire and Fife & Drum Muster

Longfellow’s Wayside Inn 72 Wayside Inn Road Sudbury, MA, United States

Time: Opens at 10:00 with a Colonial encampment, militia and crafts demonstrations, and contradancing. We expect dozens of colonial and craft vendors and fife and drum corps. Notes: Parade starts at noon with 25 fife and drum corps.

Mar 1780 Indian raiding parties. During the spring of 1780, Indian war parties were constantly leaving Fort Niagara for the frontiers of New York, Pennsylvania, and as far south as Virginia. The raiding parties ranged in size from six to seventy-five men. Returning to Fort Niagara, the parties brought in prisoners, livestock, and reports of … Continue reading

Battle of Cowpens

The Continental Army had suffered crushing defeats in the Southern Colonies. General George Washington had seen one army captured in the Siege of Charleston, a devastating massacre at the Battle of Waxhaws, and another army destroyed in the Battle of Camden.  The moral of the war in the south was not good, to say the … Continue reading

Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill (sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Camden) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on April 25, 1781, near Camden, South Carolina. A small American force under Nathanael Greene occupying Hobkirk's Hill, north of Camden, was attacked by British troops led by Francis Rawdon. After a fierce clash, Greene retreated, … Continue reading

Battle of Spencer’s Ordinary From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Battle of Spencer's Ordinary was an inconclusive skirmish that took place on 26 June 1781, late in the American Revolutionary War. British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette respectively, clashed near a tavern (the "ordinary") at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg, Virginia. Lafayette had been … Continue reading

Additional Schedules & Information:
1 13th Albany County Militia Schedule of Events
2 American Revolution Site Great Links
3 BVMA Burning of the Valleys Military Association Schedule & More
4 Company of Fifers and Drummers Great Links, Coming Events & More
5 Village Volunteers Fife & Drum Corps Delmar, NY