Civil War Band Music

I have an interesting gig with the Lambuth Brass Choir in October. We have been invited to play at Shiloh National Military Park for a live artillery demonstration as part of a Living History event. Fowler's Alabama Battery will portray the 1st Ohio Battery dressed in Union blue, which fought at Shiloh.

I've never attended any type of re-enactment, so I'm looking forward to the experience.

We will be playing band music popular during the Civil War years. We won't being playing the instruments popular in the day, because none of owns a saxhorn.

Click to hear an mp3 of one of the pieces we are preparing: Lilly Bell Quickstep

I've been to Shiloh before. It is a large park, with memorials set up around the area that tell about the battle that took place there.

Shiloh is "scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6 and 7, 1862, involved about 65,000 Union and 44,000 Confederate troops. This battle resulted in nearly 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing."

While there in the peaceful setting, surrounded by trees and open fields, it is hard to imagine the bloodshed and carnage that occurred there. So many dead, the many bodies once covered those open fields, and now in a different time, there is serenity there.