In a tribute to early American martial music, 600 members of fife-and-drum corps convene in Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. for the annual National Muster. Participants range from teenagers to septuagenarians.

Musicians on a British battlefield date from the 16th century, but by the second half of the 18th century most French, German and English army units and militia units in the American colonies had ...

This week, let’s catch up on recent happenings in Rhode Island. Young Marines run NationalLeadership Academy in Newport When we launched our effort to bring the aircraft carrier Saratoga into ...

On summer Monday evenings, the lively music of fifes and drums draws in townspeople and tourists alike as the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps rehearses outdoors near Buckman Tavern. The ...

It is a revolutionary twist on the modern-day history lesson. A musical mainstay in the Northeast with Yankee bluecoats in every small town piping Dixie and tapping out Battle Hymn of the Republic at ...

YOUNGSTOWN -- A creative collaboration between Niagara University theatre department faculty and students and the Old Fort Niagara Association has resulted in the donation of carefully-researched and ...

Moving to California takes you a long way from the fifes and drums of Colonial Williamsburg. Unless you take the music with you. That's what Kevin Garland did. Tomorrow, he'll bring the sound back to ...