[ August 22, 2011; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Join the Eaton Branch of the Preble County District Library for a presention by Rick Spencer entitled, “The Greatest Hits of the Civil War: America’s Earliest Professional Songwriters” This program will lok at hisorical music of the Civil War era.

Sponsor: Eaton Branch of the Preble County District Library

Location: 301 N Barron ST, Eaton, OH 45320

For [...]

[ August 27, 2011; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Join the Mary L. Cook Public Library for an ice cream social, featuring music from the Civil War.

Location: Mary L Cook Public Library, 381 Old Stage Road, Waynesville, Ohio   45068

Sponsor: Mary L. Cook Public Library

For more information, please visit www.mlcook.lib.oh.us

[ March 16, 2011 to April 12, 2011. ] Join the Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College to explore New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music.   Listen to America’s music and hear the story of freedom.   It’s the story of a people in a New World, places they have left behind, and ideas they have brought with them.   It is the story of people who [...]

[ March 22, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] People pick the strangest times to sing together, risking their lives for freedom in the streets of Cairo in 2011, or on the back trails of Kentucky in
1837. Explore the “freedom song” impulse with Allen Schwartz as he talks and sings about the way we celebrate freedom’s struggle in song and art.

An exhibit, New Harmonies: [...]

[ August 1, 2010; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] The Camp Chase Fifes and Drums will be playing at the State Fair in Columbus!

The Camp Chase Fifes and Drums has been a leader in historical military field music since the early 1980s.   An authentic recreation of a Civil War-period regimental fife and drum corps founded in 1983, the corps is named after the large [...]