(NOTE: The picture above was from the 2019 Memorial Day Service at the Hallsville Cemetery)
Please enjoy some of the sounds of the band while you read about them.
Plus, you find several Youtube audio recordings of their concerts, and even a few video recordings, by "CLICKING" on the link below. You can even enjoy the Youtube recordings in the background while you cruise through the rest of the pages on this web site. I do that all the time.
"CLICK" here for Adelphi Band Youtube videos.
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"CLICK" here for Adelphi Band Youtube videos.
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December 2023 Update!
A biography of the Adelphi Community Band!
A biography of the Adelphi Community Band!
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This project has been 143 years in the making.
This biography will document the activities of the band and its musicians from the late 1800's to 2023, event by event and musician by musician. It will be a biography of both the band, the community, numerous fairs and festivals, and the times in which all that happened. Among other information, it will contain the most comprehensive roster of musicians created to date of some of the hundreds of musicians who have ever played with the band. It will also contain the names of over 20 musicians who have directed the band through the years. And much, MUCH more! Now expected to be released in 2024. And the best part......It will be presented here, FREE! Continue to watch this page for announcements and CLICK HERE for more details! |
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The Adelphi Community Band, based from a small town in northeastern Ross County Ohio (population @ 380), and located about an hour south of Columbus, Ohio, has an undeniable place in both the oral and written histories of Chillicothe, Circleville, Adelphi, Hallsville, and a number of other communities in their multi-county area.
The Adelphi Community Band, based from a small town in northeastern Ross County Ohio (population @ 380), and located about an hour south of Columbus, Ohio, has an undeniable place in both the oral and written histories of Chillicothe, Circleville, Adelphi, Hallsville, and a number of other communities in their multi-county area.
They can rightfully claim a rich, and long, heritage dating back to the band's start in 1880....yes......I said, 1880.
To put this into a different perspective, this means that The Adelphi Community Band has now been around for parts of 3 DIFFERENT centuries...the 1800's, the 1900's, and the 2000's!
And, this totals out for @ 15 different decades!
Just let that sink in for a minute........
Through those years, there have been numerous fathers and sons, nephews and uncles, husbands and wives, parents and sons, friends, and almost any combination of family and friends that you can imagine who have come together with the band to play music for their friends and neighbors.
To put this into a different perspective, this means that The Adelphi Community Band has now been around for parts of 3 DIFFERENT centuries...the 1800's, the 1900's, and the 2000's!
And, this totals out for @ 15 different decades!
Just let that sink in for a minute........
Through those years, there have been numerous fathers and sons, nephews and uncles, husbands and wives, parents and sons, friends, and almost any combination of family and friends that you can imagine who have come together with the band to play music for their friends and neighbors.
They are a unique community band, in that through all of this time, they have continued to play the classic music for which the band is so well known: marches, circus music, and waltzes. Almost all of their music was written in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. And that suits them just fine.
Their library consists of the usual composers, to include: Karl King, Henry Fillmore, Sousa, Hall, Alford, and even Chillicothe's own Will Huff.
And woe be to either the Director or the band member who ever suggests that the band play a watered down version of any of these classics! Only the original compositions will do, if you please!
Their library consists of the usual composers, to include: Karl King, Henry Fillmore, Sousa, Hall, Alford, and even Chillicothe's own Will Huff.
And woe be to either the Director or the band member who ever suggests that the band play a watered down version of any of these classics! Only the original compositions will do, if you please!
Frankly, we suspect that even the Internet isn't big enough to hold all the pictures, videos, documents, newscasts, and articles that have been produced about the band through the years.
And while we have found that the pictures taken through the years generally don't lie, the same cannot be said about the stories and memories that get passed around among the members and families during the band practices and engagements, and quite possibly embellished just a little bit (or perhaps embarrassing details omitted) each time they are repeated.
However, we will share as many of these things as possible with you through this web site.
We hope that you enjoy this web site! It is easy to get lost in the articles and the opportunity to learn about the band for hours at a time, let alone to spend hours listening to their concert recordings!
We also hope that you enjoy reminiscing a little bit back to another time when a band concert in the local park (as one of the elder band members expressed this sentiment several decades ago) was really something to look forward to............ not only for the fun of a band concert, but because it got him out of doing work at the family farm!
Come back to this web site often, as we will be constantly adding things as they are dug out of our basement files!
And while we have found that the pictures taken through the years generally don't lie, the same cannot be said about the stories and memories that get passed around among the members and families during the band practices and engagements, and quite possibly embellished just a little bit (or perhaps embarrassing details omitted) each time they are repeated.
However, we will share as many of these things as possible with you through this web site.
We hope that you enjoy this web site! It is easy to get lost in the articles and the opportunity to learn about the band for hours at a time, let alone to spend hours listening to their concert recordings!
We also hope that you enjoy reminiscing a little bit back to another time when a band concert in the local park (as one of the elder band members expressed this sentiment several decades ago) was really something to look forward to............ not only for the fun of a band concert, but because it got him out of doing work at the family farm!
Come back to this web site often, as we will be constantly adding things as they are dug out of our basement files!
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DISCLAIMER:
For the sake of full disclosure, it needs to be stated that this is an unofficial web page about the Adelphi Community Band from Adelphi, Ohio.
To this point, the band doesn't have an official web site, so this one will have to do in the interim.
This project was started in the summer of 2015 as an individual effort by band musician with several decades playing in the band. The intent was then, and still is, to make personal concert recordings, pictures, historical information, and even current news about the band readily available to the musicians, friends and family members, and to anyone else with any level of interest at all in the life and times of one of the oldest community bands in the nation.
Countless thousands of hours have been spent just to this point:
All of this mountain of work has been done with a goal of creating this web page as a lasting testimonial to the band's history.
This project was done by just one person. Absolutely no one helped with any physical tasks, and certainly no one provided financial assistance.
While someone with any formal and/or assumed authority within The Adelphi Community Band may, on occasion, acknowledge the existence of this web site, this web site is not supported in any way, to include financially, by either the band musicians, the band Business Manager or Director, or by any other individual, group, organization, or business. Absolutely no one associated with the band is either responsible for, nor has it been granted any editorial control over, the content of this web site. All such decisions are made by the Webmaster.
It is a sincere hope that you enjoy the materials that have been found and placed here.
The fascinating history of the band's activities through the years is the stuff from which legends, and sometimes tall tales, are made.
But really, think about it..........did you really expect that the band would actually ever start an OFFICIAL web page?
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DISCLAIMER:
For the sake of full disclosure, it needs to be stated that this is an unofficial web page about the Adelphi Community Band from Adelphi, Ohio.
To this point, the band doesn't have an official web site, so this one will have to do in the interim.
This project was started in the summer of 2015 as an individual effort by band musician with several decades playing in the band. The intent was then, and still is, to make personal concert recordings, pictures, historical information, and even current news about the band readily available to the musicians, friends and family members, and to anyone else with any level of interest at all in the life and times of one of the oldest community bands in the nation.
Countless thousands of hours have been spent just to this point:
- Creating YouTube videos from cassette audio tapes and VHS tapes,
- Finding and reviewing several thousands of articles from newspapers, magazines, old concert lists, official event programs, personal notes, multiple books and web sites, radio and television interviews, and from various other sources.
- Creating an @ 650 page report of original research on William Lockwood Huff, an internationally known composer born near Chillicothe, Ohio who not only played in the band but was also a Director,
- Spending years working on an @ 1,600 page history of the band that is still a work in progress. The anticipated release date for this FREE biography on the band should be Spring 2024.
- FInding and scanning old pics of the band,
All of this mountain of work has been done with a goal of creating this web page as a lasting testimonial to the band's history.
This project was done by just one person. Absolutely no one helped with any physical tasks, and certainly no one provided financial assistance.
While someone with any formal and/or assumed authority within The Adelphi Community Band may, on occasion, acknowledge the existence of this web site, this web site is not supported in any way, to include financially, by either the band musicians, the band Business Manager or Director, or by any other individual, group, organization, or business. Absolutely no one associated with the band is either responsible for, nor has it been granted any editorial control over, the content of this web site. All such decisions are made by the Webmaster.
It is a sincere hope that you enjoy the materials that have been found and placed here.
The fascinating history of the band's activities through the years is the stuff from which legends, and sometimes tall tales, are made.
But really, think about it..........did you really expect that the band would actually ever start an OFFICIAL web page?
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By the way, we encourage you to visit the web pages (below) of some of our friends!
Just "click" on the pictures to be taken to their web pages.
Just "click" on the pictures to be taken to their web pages.