Keywords: orchestras
Item 6181
Portland Municipal Orchestra, ca. 1928
Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Date: circa 1928 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 101496
Cella's Club Orchestra, Biddeford, 1929
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1929 Location: Sanford Media: Glass Negative
Item 111982
Winthrop Library, Winthrop, 1916
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Winthrop Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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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.
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Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler
Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.
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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages
"Opera, Orchestras and Stages Click to learn more about Maine's Opera Houses Many Maine towns in the 19th and early 20th centuries had an…"
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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands
"In 1926, Susep traveled with the Indian Island Orchestra to Philadelphia to play at the US Sesquicentennial (150th), entertained at Strawbridge and…"
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Keeping Dance and Music Alive
by Cindy Larock
Cindy Larock's involvement in the traditional music and dance scene in Maine for over 40 years.
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Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile
Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home