Personnel

                

Jeff Stockham, E-flat cornet       David Driesen, B-flat cornet

 

          

  Lee Turner, B-flat cornet           Dickson Rothwell, E-flat alto

 

                      

Jim Spencer, B-flat tenor        Loyal Mitchell, B-flat baritone

 

         

 Allan Thomson, E-flat bass                John Allis, side drum

 

 

         Damian Allis, bass drum

 

On Campaign

 

At the Great American Brass Band Festival, the band concertized for the

festival's History Conference.

Our performance on the Main Stage at the 2008 Great American Brass

Band Festival, for an audience of several thousand people. 

 

A great shot of Damian Allis and Dickson Rothwell during the Glens

Falls Memorial Day parade, May 26, 2008. 

 

Our concert during Music Week at the Mohonk Mountain House in New

Paltz, NY on June 25, 2008. We were enthusiastically received by a

capacity audience. 

 

The band hitches a ride at Mohonk Mountain House's July 4th Celebration;

one of the few times we've all been "on the wagon"...

 

On September 2nd 2007, members of the Federal City Brass Band joined

the Excelsior Cornet Band for two concerts and a parade at the 2007

New York State Fair In Syracuse, New York. We fielded a full brigade

band, with FOUR OTS tubas!

 

Posing with President and Mrs. Lincoln and Lincoln's aide Ward Hill

Lamon, at Albany Rural Cemetery's Civil War Heritage Day,

September 23, 2006. We portrayed Schreiber's Albany Cornet Band.

 

Concertizing on the Village Green for the troops at Genesee Country

Village & Museum's 2006 Civil War Reenactment.

 

Behind the scenes: Getting the instruments ready for the show at

Letchworth State Park's Centennial Celebration, May 27, 2006.

 

Onstage in the Parlor for a Presidents' Week concert at Mohonk

Mountain House, February 21, 2006.

 

Our appearance at the 2005 Civil War Music Gathering in Windham,

NY was received with a standing ovation. Photo: Mary Laverty

 

The band serenading onlookers at the 2005 Peterboro Civil War

Weekend. The weather was incredibly hot!

 

Our well-received performance on September 18, 2005, at the Westcott

Cultural Fair in Syracuse, NY.

 

Jeff performs Joseph Kuffner's Polonaise for Keyed Bugle with the

Federal City Brass Band, Jari Villanueva conducting, at the Manassas

National Battlefield Park, summer 2005. Photo: Heather Faust

 

The band on parade with members of the 150th NY Volunteer Infantry at Locust

Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY. Photo: Bonnie Mitchell

 

Jeff had the honor of rendering Taps at Gettysburg National Cemetery

on Remembrance Day, November 19, 2005. Photo: Heather Faust

 

Members of the Federal City Brass Band joined the Excelsior Cornet

Band for two concerts and a parade on September 4th, at the 2005

New York State Fair In Syracuse, New York.

 

 

The Excelsior Cornet Band poses with a Very Important President at a

fundraiser in Rochester NY for the Genesee Country Village & Museum.

Photo: David Berndt

 

 

At the historic Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY,

where we portrayed Newman's Cornet Band.

 

With Mr. Lincoln at the Peterboro NY Civil War Weekend.

 

At the 149th NYS Volunteers' Encampment at Lorenzo Homestead,

Cazenovia, NY.  Ferrotype by John Coffer.

 

Concertizing at the Lorenzo Encampment.

 

Taking a break at Rose Hill Mansion, Geneva.

 

Lee Turner, Jeff Stockham, Al Thomson, and Dickson Rothwell join

Baltimore's  Federal City Brass Band for the 2003 National Civil War

Band Festival in Campbellsville, Kentucky. A grand time was had by all!

Photo courtesy Federal City Brass Band