METROPOLIS - Charissa Igo-Dickerson of Alton didn't have much choice. At age 5, she was learning to play the fife at her father's urging. Her older brother Erik Igo was playing the drums.

The Marietta Chapter Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard and new Fife and Drum Corps participated in Marietta’s Fourth of July Parade. The group started a Fife and Drum Corps as preparations ...

In a tribute to early American martial music, 600 members of fife-and-drum corps convene in Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. for the annual National Muster. Participants range from teenagers to septuagenarians.

Feb. 24—GROTON — Divya Varadharajan, 13, a member of the Nutmeg Volunteer Junior Ancient Fife and Drum Corps, feels uplifted when playing the upbeat music of the fife and drum corps. Varadharajan, a ...

After World War I, Amsterdam veterans’ organizations formed drum and bugle corps. Most drum corps members were war veterans who had learned to march in the Army. The premier groups were those of the ...

Musicians on a British battlefield date from the 16th century, but by the second half of the 18th century most French, German and English army units and militia units in the American colonies had ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On Tuesday, the sounds of fifes and drums trilled and pounded from the time-worn walls of Fort William Henry. Their players marched to the historic fort all the way from ...