Pumpkin Show Community Band Members and Those Interested in the Band s Activities Pumpkin Show Community Band Update

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1 To: From: Re: Pumpkin Show Community Band Members and Those Interested in the Band s Activities Jeff Mathew mathew5554@gmail.com Pumpkin Show Community Band Update You have received this about the activities of The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band, and related activities in the Circleville, Ohio area, because I have been informed that you wish to receive this information in this manner. If you do NOT wish to receive this information, please just do a reply to my address (mathew5554@gmail.com) stating that you wish to be REMOVED from our e- mail list. On the other hand, if you have friends or family who would like to RECEIVE this information, just have them contact me at the same address above, and I will be happy to add that address to our contact list. This way they can also stay up to speed with our concert schedule and related activities in the Circleville area. Thanks. Jeff Mathew, Trumpet Information Included in this message: 1. Pumpkin Show Community Band TENTATIVE 2015 Schedule of Events (Reminder) 2. Pumpkin Show Community Band Web Site (Reminder) 3. Spring Concert Information (Updated) 4. Windjammers 5. Substitute Director for Practice List for Pumpkin Show Community Band TENTATIVE 2015 Schedule of Events

2 (Reminder) The following is a list of our expected performance dates in This list will be left in future updates and adjusted as new information about our events is confirmed. Information about our upcoming concerts and parades will also be placed on our new web site. (see Item # 2, below). The band web site also contains addresses of our performance locations, links to Google Maps for many of these performance locations, as well as links to any web sites that have been found regarding the festivals or other events sponsoring our performances, TENTATIVE 2015 Schedule 2015 Date Event/Location/Time/ Etc a) Sunday (JUST updated Spring Concert Sunday April 19, 2015, 3:00 PM Emmett Chapel 318 Tarlton Rd Circleville, Ohio (Next to the Pickaway County Senior Center) b) Saturday Teays Valley Cancer Walk Teays Valley High School Ashville, Ohio c) Sunday Elks Flag Day d) Sunday (Date confirmed by Lowell on 2-24) Pickaway County Fair Harness Races Play at 12:30 for races that start at 1:00. Play 3:00 PM

3 e) Sat Lancaster 4 th of July Parade Only f) Sat (Date/Time confirmed by Lowell on 2-24) Harrisburg, Ohio 10:30 AM Parade g) Sunday Pickaway County Courthouse 6:30 PM Concert h) Sunday Laurelville Trinity United Methodist Church Laurel Street Laurelville, Ohio Concert is in parking lot BEHIND church i) Tuesday Start of Pumpkin Show j) Wednesday (Third Wednesday on October) Pumpkin Show Concert and 8:00 Parade k) Thur Pumpkin Show 8:00 Parade Only l) Fri Pumpkin Show Concert and 8:00 Parade m) Sat Lancaster Christmas Parade 10:00 AM, Meet at the fairgrounds Parade Only n) Sun Circleville TUBACHRISTMAS 3:00 Concert at Courthouse Steps Registration- 12:30 at the band hall Practice- 1:00-@ 2:30 PM o) Sat Circleville Christmas Parade p) Sunday Christmas Concert 3:00 PM (Possibly back at Emmett Chapel)

4 2. Pumpkin Show Community Band Web Site (Reminder) This web site is open to everyone to view. You do not have to sign-up for anything to be able to access it. New information is added frequently. Additional info about each of our potential concerts and parades will be added to the web site as soon as it is finalized, and it will also be sent to you through the system.. 3. Spring Concert Information (Updated) David confirmed at the practice that the Spring Concert will be held on: Sunday April 19, 2015, 3:00 PM Emmett Chapel 318 Tarlton Rd Circleville, Ohio (Next to the Pickaway County Senior Center) All related information will be put on the band web site, as well. 4. Windjammers For anyone who likes circuses, and circus music, there has been an organization around since 1971 that serves to promote the interests of both. It is called: Windjammers This organization is the keeper of the flame for the continued interest in, and performance of, circus bands and circus music. Including music that is not generally well known today. In addition to producing a bi-monthly newsletter sharing info about the history of circus bands and of specific musicians,

5 this group holds conventions twice a year. Any member of Windjammers who plays a horn can then spend time during the convention practicing and recording music. If you think you don t like circus music, you are apparently mistaken as to what that really is. After all, during the course of a show, the circus bands would play anything from marches, to waltzes, to novelty numbers, to show tunes, to folk songs, and even classical music if it was needed for that specific act. The history of circus bands is fascinating, and includes stories about some of the most well known composers. And many songs were written by some of these composers specifically referencing specific circus organizations, circus musicians, and a variety of things about the circus, like even the birth of an elephant (a greatly welcomed event for a circus). (EXAMPLE : Baby Boo, 1904, written by Fred Jewell about the birth of a baby elephant in the circus winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Baraboo, Wisconsin). The Pumpkin Show Band connection to circuses: Some of the more seniored members of the Pumpkin Show Band will remember Roger Carroll (tuba), although I may not have spelled his last name correctly. Roger has since passed, but he had held many different jobs in and around Chillicothe, including being a band director for a Ross County school for several years. Somewhere around the late 70 s to early 80 s, Roger just up and joined the Carson and Barnes circus band, where he played tuba 3 years. Because of this connection, in the early 80 s several members of the Pumpkin Show Band and Adelphi Band were able to sit in with the Carson and Barnes circus band when they came to Chillicothe to perform. Two shows a day, for 2 hours each show. In fact, in September 1981, some of the Pumpkin Show Band and Adelphi Band members were playing with the Carson and Barnes circus band behind the Sears store in the Chillicothe Mall, when an elephant got kind of excited, ran around

6 the circus tent (including running by the band who was basically playing at ground level), left the tent, and went all the way to the other end of the mall and broke the store front window at Pennys. And the band played on (seriously). (page 12) Circus Band Facts: 1. Merle Evans (1891 to 1987) was probably the world s foremost circus band conductor. Although he was with other circus bands first, he conducted the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey s circus band for 50 years, and NEVER missed a performance, which was counted by some to 22,000 performances. He died at the age of Henry Fillmore ( Lassus Trombone ) left home to join the circus and became not only a circus musician but a performer in the circus, after an argument with his father over a girl. Henry married the girl, also a circus performer, and later reconciled with his father and joined him in the Fillmore publishing house in Cincinnati. 3. John Phillip Sousa was ready to leave home and join the circus when his father enrolled him as an apprentice in the Marine band. 5. Substitute Director for Eric Dieterich (tuba) will be filling in for David as Director for Tuesday Practice List for For those of you who were unable to attend practice tonight, here is a copy of the practice list as we get closer to the Spring Concert.: With Malice Toward None The Sound of Music The Valiant Years (just passed out tonight)

7 Glenn Miller in Concert Man of La Mancha Magic Trumpet Jungle Book Strike Up the Band END OF DOCUMENT