Cheer, Boys, Cheer! Music of the 26th N.C. Regimental Band is the American Brass Quintet Brass Band's follow-up to its previous New World release, A Storm in the Land. Both of these collections are drawn from the only complete set of Confederate band part books in existence, which are held at the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston-Salem. These sources contain hundreds of pieces; thankfully bandleader Samuel T. Mickey was always on the hunt for good music to play on the 26th's long marches through the wilderness. Thanks to ...
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Cheer, Boys, Cheer! Music of the 26th N.C. Regimental Band is the American Brass Quintet Brass Band's follow-up to its previous New World release, A Storm in the Land. Both of these collections are drawn from the only complete set of Confederate band part books in existence, which are held at the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston-Salem. These sources contain hundreds of pieces; thankfully bandleader Samuel T. Mickey was always on the hunt for good music to play on the 26th's long marches through the wilderness. Thanks to Mickey's bartering, buying, and copying of music belonging to other regimental bands, these part books preserve music from Confederate regiments whose band books have disappeared for good and even a few pieces from the Union side of the Mason-Dixon Line. Since A Storm in the Land was issued in 2002, a small number of part books from other Confederate bands have been identified in the Moravian Music Foundation, and these additional volumes help to inform the contents here. As good as...
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