The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Strawbery Banke Museum’s An American Celebration on Friday 4 July 2014 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Then we’ll see the fireworks of dozens of towns on our way home.
The Salem Trayned Band will march in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts’ June Day parade on Monday 2 June 2014, in downtown Boston. This annual event, held on the first Monday in June, recreates the Ancient and Honorables’ drumhead election. It also closes Tremont Street, and other central streets, in the middle of a work day. And they fire artillery salutes on Boston Common. The parade steps off at noon. As a special treat, the Honourable Artillery Company of London, the second-oldest chartered military organization in the world (after the Pontifical Swiss Guard) will be visiting for the parade. It’s an event not to be missed.
We will participate in the National Guard and Salem Veterans Council’s 377th-anniversary commemoration of the first regimental muster in North America, in Salem, Massachusetts, on Saturday 5 April 2014. The schedule includes ceremonies at Armory Park (in front of the National Park Service Visitor Center at 2 New Liberty Street) at 10:15 am, and on Salem Common at 11:15, with a short parade between the two. The First Muster is one of the two impressions in our original brief (the 1630 first militia is the other). Come see it!
The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill at Arisia ’14, on Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 10:00 am, in Grand Ballroom A. And on Saturday we’ll have appeared as our nineteenth-century alter egos. Check our schedule on The Salem Zouaves’ site, and on Arisia’s on-line schedule.
The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Massachusetts National Guard’s fourth annual Open House at Camp Edwards, Joint Base Cape Cod (formerly the Massachusetts Military Reservation), on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September 2013. We look forward to seeing all of our friends and fans at our giant tent.
The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the National Park Service’s Salem Maritime Festival from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm on Saturday 3 August 2013 in Salem, Massachusetts. Look for a photo of Paul and Andy that the NPS has put on the event page, although–whoops–they seem to have left us off the list of exhibitors. Nevertheless, we look forward to seeing all of our friends and fans at our tent by Derby Wharf.
The Salem Trayned Band will visit Bourne’s Aptucxet Trading Post for their Colonial Day event on Saturday 13 July 2013 at the invitation of Plymouth’s New Plimmoth Gard. We may also be there the following day, Sunday 14 July, for more seventeenth-century fun (meaning drill, of course—what could be better?) with the NPG.
The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Strawbery Banke Museum’s An American Celebration on Thursday 4 July 2013 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Then we’ll see the fireworks of dozens of towns on our way home.
The Salem Trayned Band will spend the weekend of 22 and 23 June at Salem Pioneer Village 1630 to help celebrate its opening weekend. As Gordon College has recently declined to continue managing the site, it may also be the only open weekend of the season. The New Plimmoth Gard, of that other colony a bit to the south, will join us; you should, too. Come see us—and the Village, while you still can.
