Free concerts on Tuesday evenings during the months of July and August,
usually featuring two corps each night. Held on the grounds at the Museum
of Fife & Drum, bring your lawn chair and enjoy some great fife
and drum music. For more information, go to Tuesday
Night Concerts.
January 12, 2008 - Williamsburg, VA
Fife Mojo January Jam
host: Fife Mojo Inc. and Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums
Open to all fifers and drummers. Special hotel rate of $49 a night
for attendees at Best Western Patrick Henry Inn, 249 York St., Williamsburg,
Virginia 23185, 1-800-446-9228. Mention "Fife Mojo Jam at Colonial
Williamsburg" when making reservations. Refreshments will be
served before the jam.
contact: Gina DeAngelis
phone: (757) 870-8256
www.fifemojo.org
January 19, 2008 - Westbrook, CT - Saturday
Martin D. Andrews Memorial
Scholarship Jam Session (Marty Jam)
location: Westbrook Elks Club
time: 4 PM to Midnight
contact: Michael Andrews, 860-585-8456, mickeyfife@aol.com
or
17th annual jam session to benefit the Martin D. Andrews Memorial
Scholarship Fund. Refreshments available, raffle. Donation: Adults
$5.00, Juniors: $3.00
February 10, 2008 - Arlington MA
Midwinter Madness F&D Jam Session
Hosted by: Menotomy Minutemen
Time: Noon
info: K of C Hall. Arlington Mass. Same location as in past years.
Please bring a contribution for the raffle. Light food will be served.
Cash bar. Vendors and sutlers by invitation only please.
contact: Bill Mahoney at 781 648-1720
February 16, 2008 - IVORYTON, CT - Saturday
The Company of Fifers and Drummers Executive and
General Meetings
Location: The Museum of Fife & Drum/Company HQ, Ivoryton, CT
Contact: The Company 860-767-2237
The Executive Committee will meet at 11AM. The General meeting starts
at 1:30 followed by jamming. Please bring your instruments.
Email: companyhq@companyoffifeanddrum.org
Web: www.companyoffifeanddrum.org
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008 - Leesburg, VA
WINTER JAM
host: Loudoun Border Guards FDC
NEW DATE: Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, 1 to 6 PM
NEW LOCATION: Asbury Hall-Leesburg United Methodist Church, Wirt
St. in historic downtown area.
Light Refreshments will be available. Please let us know if your
are coming! For additional information, directions & area hotels,
contact us directly
contact: Anne & Cormac Quinn at 703-244-9798
www.lbguards.org
February 23, 2008 - Lafayette, IN
Freezer Jam 2008
host: 42nd Royal Highlanders, Voyageur Ancients, Tippecanoe Ancients
time: 9:00am
info: Open midwestern gathering of fifes and drums with training
sessions and evening concert. $20 registration fee required.
contact: Preston Smith at 765-567-2220
http://www.freezerjam.org/
April 5, 2008 - Albany, New York
No Foolin Jam
host: Adamsville Ancients Fife and Drum Corps
time: 1 pm
info: Enjoy an afternoon of music and fellowship with many of your
fife and drum friends at our 14th annual Jam! A great way to warm
up for the upcoming muster season. Past jam attendees keep coming
back - that's all you need to know!!
contact: Jim Willey - 518-439-8727
http://fifedrum.org/adamsville/
April 26, 2008 - IVORYTON, CT - Saturday
The Company of Fifers and Drummers Executive and
General Meetings
Please note that the date for this
meeting has been changed due to a conflict Patriots Day in Massachusetts
on the 19th.
Location: The Museum of Fife & Drum/Company HQ, Ivoryton, CT
Contact: The Company 860-767-2237
The Executive Committee will meet at 11AM. The General meeting starts
at 1:30 followed by jamming. Please bring your instruments.
Email: companyhq@companyoffifeanddrum.org
Web: www.companyoffifeanddrum.org
May 2-3, 2008 - Lexington, Massachusetts
The Lexington Muster
host: The William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps
time: 11:00AM
info: Tattoo 7PM Friday Evening Hasting Park in Lexington Center.
Parade on Saturday at 11AM from Lexington Green to Lower Hayden Field.
Camping is available on the muster field. Open to the first 30 corps
responding. At the conclusion of the muster, a complimentary Spaghetti
dinner will be offered. The jam will follow dinner.
contact: Carmin Calabrese - 508-278-2803
http://williamdiamondjrs.org/
May 31, 2008 - Kinderhook, NY
Company of Fifers and Drummers National Muster
host: Fyfes & Drumms of Olde Saratoga
info: Camping opens at 8:00 AM, Friday, 5/30/08.
Parade Saturday, 5/31 at Noon
contact: Rich Alexander, Business Manager
phone: 518-235-3910
www.fifedrum.org/saratoga
June 6th, 7th & 8th, 2008 - Ft. Delaware, Delaware City,
Delaware
Don Hubbard Field Music School
host: Don Hubbard Field Music School
location: Ft. Delaware, Delaware City, Delaware
start time: Friday, June 6th at 2:00 pm
The Don Hubbard Field Music School is maintained to support and disseminate
excellence in field music of the Civil War era as a part of public
education in a critical part of America's past. This event will replicate
two days in the life of a Field Musician in training at the Civil
War era Field Music School held at Governors Island, NY.
The field music school is a very intense weekend of training in the
instrument of your choice (Fife, Drum, or Bugle) with nationally renowned
top caliber Music Instructors. Also included will be training in the
history and proper use of Field Musicians in camp and in battle, Customs
of Service, drill and formations, as well as correct uniforms and
equipment. Musical training will include the learning of both Camp
Duty beats, tunes, and calls as well as battlefield signals, marching
beats, and many tunes. The schedule will encompass non-stop activities
for the weekend, and will be fully regulated by bugle, drum &
fife, as was the real school.
Attendance is open to any beginner, novice, intermediate, or advanced
Field Musician with his own instrument and complete Civil War uniform,
ages 11 and up. Females are welcome if they can accurately portray
a male civil war soldier and disguise their gender accordingly. You
will be “camped” (in barracks) in a real restored Civil
War fort, Fort Delaware, which was a major seacoast defense as well
as a large Confederate POW camp.
contact: David Noell, Registrar
url: http://www.fieldmusicschool.com
June 13-15, 2008 - Petersburg, VA
National Civil War Field Music School
host: National Association for Civil War Brass Music, Inc.
location: Pamplin Historical Park Petersburg, VA
time: Noon
The National Association for Civil War Brass Music will present a
school on the essentials of military field music of the U.S. Civil
War (1861-65) at Pamplin Historical Park, near the city of Petersburg,
VA from 13–15 June 2008. Participants will experience period-style
training in the art of bugling, drumming, and fife playing from experts
in the field in a historical setting. The director of the school is
Jari Villanueva, a noted expert on field music and director of the
Federal City Brass Band and 26th NC Regimental Band. Other faculty
include Bill Bynum, Tim Ertel, Jeb Hague, Doug Hedwig, Joe Korber,
David Loyal, Jason Maines, George Rabbai, Stephen Southard, and Chuck
Woodhead. The Military Staff for the school includes Bill Watson-Military
Commander, Chris Anders,Scot Buffington, Andrew Dangel, Joel Hummel,Michael
Schaffner, Jim Tate and Michael Vice. The school will provide instruction
in novice, intermediate, and advanced levels for participants aged
11 and older. The weekend will be ordered by field music and military
drill of the era and will culminate in a public dress parade.
contact: Jari Villanueva, Music Director
phone: (443) 801-5274
http://www.nationalcivilwarfieldmusicschool.com/
June 20-21, 2008 - Monroe, MI
River Raisin International Muster
Muster on Saturday, June 21st at 10:00am
Tattoo on Friday night, June 20th
host: 1st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps and War of 1812 Bicentennial
Steering Committee
info: Muster takes place on the River Raisin Battlefield, War of
1812. By Invitation only.
contact: Scott Lonsdale - (313) 702-8008
June 28, 2008 - Milford, CT
Milford Muster
host: Milford Volunteers Ancient Fife and Drum Corps
time: 12 noon
Camping avail. at Eisenhower Park from 12 noon Friday until 12 noon
Sunday.
contact: Lee D'Amico (203) 878-0123
http://milford.fifedrum.org
July 4, 2008 - Stonington Borough, CT
Fourth of July Parade
host: Stonington Historical Society
time: 9:45 am
We are looking for Fife and Drum companies to participate in the
annual Fourth of July parade in beautiful Stonington Borough, CT.
This is a community event with a reading of the Declaration of Independence
following the parade.
contact: Brian Beattie
phone: 860-535-1603
July 11-13, 2008 - Cheshire, Ctevent
Connecticut Patriots 30th Anniversary Muster Celebration
host: Connecticut Patriots Fife and Drum Corps
Open Muster with invitations being set out. Camping will available
Friday afternoon until 10 am Sunday. Tattoo will be held on Friday
and a brief parade through Cheshire's Historical District ending with
a muster on Saturday. Please come and join us, celebrating or 30th
Anniversary with our friends and peers in Fife and Drum!
contact: Brendan Mason (203) 439-1109
www.ctpatriots.org
July 18th & 19th - Deep River, CT
Deep River Ancient Muster
The tattoo is Friday, July 18, and starts at 7:00pm at Devitt's Field.
The parade is Saturday, July 19, at 11 AM. It forms at the corner
of Main and Kirtland Streets. This is an open muster.
July 18th & 19th - Deep River, CT
Chester Fife & Drum Corps 140th Anniversary/Alumni
Gathering
Chester Fife & Drum Corps is having a 140th Anniversary/Alumni
Gathering during the Deep River Muster Weekend. All Chester Fife &
Drum Corps Alumni are invited to join us Friday night on July 18th
for a cook-out at Devitts Field & join us on stand on Saturday
for the Deep River Muster.
contact: Mare Sestilli
phonee: 860-637-7378
www.geocities.com/chesterfifedrum
July 26, 2008 - Montgomery, New York
Civil War Troopers Muster
host: Civil War Troopers
location: Orange County Farmers Museum
time: 1:00 pm
Annual muster held at Orange County Farmers Museum. This 35-acre
site of gently rolling farmland is the location of a restored 19th
century farm and The Brickhouse Museum, which is a restoration of
the original brick farmhouse located on this site. The layout consists
of open fields and woodlands, which are ideal for fifing and drumming
and camping. The site has been used for Civil War reenactments and
for filming of a television series about the Civil War.
Camping is available on Friday and Saturday nights on the museum
grounds. There will be portajohns and water but no shower facilities.
Campers and Motorhomes are welcome.
contact: Jim McDonald 845-566-6618
www.cwtroopers.com
July 26th 2008 - Colchester Connecticut
Muster on the Green
host: Colchester Continental Fife & Drum Corps
time: Noon
3rd Annual Muster on the Green - Short parade ending on the Town
green, open muster to follow. Free admission to craft fair for muster
participants.
contact: Wayne Seidel - (860) 742-7274
www.colchestercontinentals.com
July 27, 2008 - Coventry, Connecticut
Nathan Hale Encampment & Muster Weekend
host: Nathan Hale Ancient Fifes & Drums
time: Noon
The event is held on the grounds of the historic Nathan Hale Homestead.
An 18th Century Encampment with set up anytime from July 23 through
the 25th. The 25th and 26th are primarily re-anactor events. The Fife
& Drum Muster is held on the Sunday, the 27th, and is by Invitataion
only and limited to the 14 or 15 corps.
contact: Bob Castillo (860) 455-9417
http://www.bobcastillo.org/nathan.htm
August 8 -10, 2008 - Carmel, New York
Young Colonials 21st Annual Muster
host: Young Colonials Junior Ancient Fyfe & Drum Corps
Camping available at beautiful Putnam County Park "features"
running water and flush toilets throughout the weekend. Parade through
town on Saturday, August 9th at noon.
contact: Catherine Cuccia-Cavallo
phone: 203-775-4234
www.youngcolonials.org
September 6, 2008 - Windsor, Connecticut
The Windsor Fife and Drum Corps Annual Muster
host: The Windsor Fife and Drum Corps
time: Parade at 10:00am
For Information Contact Fran Dillon by email at WinMrD@aol.com
windsorfifeanddrumcorps.com
