About this episode

Miss Delana tells the true story of the Bower Family Band and their unexpected performance in 1886.

Send us an email: Delana@greenhousemusicak.com 140 years ago this week — on July 5, 1886 — seven farm kids from a Dakota Territory family named Bower made the entire U.S. Army brass band pack up and walk off a wooden platform in Rapid City. And nobody had even INVITED them to play. In this episode Miss Delana tells the true story of the Bower Family Band — meets the whole brass family of instruments (cornet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, baritone horn) — plays five rounds of Real or Ridiculo...

Topics covered

• family band
• historical story
• music instruments
• Fourth of July
• education

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