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Title: Portland Municipal Orchestra, season 1927-28

Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

Date: circa 1928

Location: Portland

Media:

Title: John Bapst High School Orchestra, Bangor, ca. 1931

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School

Date: circa 1931

Location: Bangor

Media: Photograph

Title: Good Will school orchestra, Fairfield, 1919

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes

Date: 1919

Location: Fairfield

Media: Photographic print

Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.