Lexington fifers and drummers take Tea Party Ships and Museum honors

The headline is wrong, as there were no pipers present (well, none playing pipes anyway) but the sentiment is right.

Lexington pipers take Tea Party honors | Boston Herald

Congratulations to the William Diamond Juniors!

2014 Lexington Muster

A couple of videos from this past weekend's muster at the Minuteman National Park in Lexington, MA. The parade of corps, as they reach and cross the muster field.





The Muster opening, with presentation of colors, and the performance of the William Diamond Juniors.



 

Boston Late Night

From the May issue of Boston magazine, Boston Late Night. With Aerosmith's Joe Perry and others, including Ben Beverage...

William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

6/29/2013 - William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps at Disney World's Magic Kingdom

William Diamond Jrs - Standpiece - 2013 Lexington Muster

Saturday's featured entertainment:

 William Diamond Jrs - Standpiece - 2013 Lexington Muster

Mele Kalikimaka

One more piece from Sunday's Winter Concert - two of the Corps' instructors.

Because nothing says Christmas like steel drum and ukelele...


Mele Kalikimaka

More Fife and Drum

From Sunday's Winter Concert in Lexington...







The Corps takes the stage...





The "Cat in the Hat" Standpiece





The "Sweeney Suite"...

Service Medley

The William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps perform a medley of tunes of the United States Armed Forces at their Winter Concert, Cary Hall, Lexington, MA.

A picture I like

From the opening ceremonies of the 300th anniversary celebration of the town of Lexington, MA.

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Lexington: get the party started

A video segment from the WCVB TV show Chronicle, featuring the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps (at least part of it...)

Packs of teens, roaming Swiss train stations after midnight...

What kind of trouble can a group of American teenagers get into after midnight in a Swiss train station?

 Here's some video from the train station in Liestal...



Jay and John and Lisa and Ben and Gil and Eddie and Shayna play Morelli's Lesson...

Fife and Drum

Saturday afternoon, the Lexington muster was held at the National Park in Lexington. Here's the host corps performing its standpiece...

William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps - Standpiece, 2012 Lexington Muster

William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corp - Muster at National Historic Park

Lexington, MA Patch:

The William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corp will present their 10th annual Fife and Drum Muster at the Minute Man Visitor Center in Lexington. Enjoy a colorful festival of Lexington’s colonial heritage with performances by more than 25 uniformed fife and drum corps, as well as artisans and period re-enactors.

History and music, and a good time for all...

St. Patrick's Day in Holyoke

Many thousands of people showed up for the 2nd-largest (behind Boston) St. Patrick's Day parade in New England.

Fifes and drums. And sheep...

Scenes from the jam session that followed the 2011 Drummers Call, on the village green at Old Sturbridge Village, 9/10/2011.

Fifers and drummers...

... waiting to rehearse. Buckman Tavern, Lexington, MA, where the minutemen mustered on the night of April 18, 1775...

"...Independence Day weekend events in Boston, Friday, July 1, 2011..."

So the Associated Press was in Charlestown on Friday night...

Members of the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corp from Lexington, Mass., march in front of the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned war ship in the U.S. Navy, as part of Independence Day weekend events in Boston, Friday, July 1, 2011.

More picture from the Bunker Hill Parade

One more pic...

... of the "F"-troop ("massed music") section of the muster, which I joined...

On stand

The William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps perform their standpiece and drill at the 10th annual Lexington Muster, held at the National Heritage Park in Lexington, MA on May 7, 2011.