We're famous! …but only if you were at the 2013 Army Ball or have an Internet connection and know how to get to The YouTube.
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The weekend of August 16th and 17th saw LFD return for its third Fife & Drum Muster at Fort George. Also in attendance: two new members, one bugler and zero ghosts.
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After a decade-and-a-half hiatus, the King's Royal Yorkers and other Crown Forces units (including the Loyalist Fifes & Drums) returned to the historic city on the St. Lawrence.
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July 19th and 20th, LFD appeared at Niagara-on-the-Lake's Fort George once again. This time however, with some new blood! It was a solid weekend at a favourite site with friends both new and old.
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July 1st, The Loyalist Fifes and Drums joined the celebrations on our nation's birthday. Marching in the popular Bath Canada Day Parade once again, The Drums led the way with the same tunes that led the Loyalists over two centuries ago.
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News - First Practice Ever
First Practice
22 October, 2005
The Loyalist Fifes and Drums held their inaugural meeting on October 22, 2005 at U.E.L. Heritage Centre & Park in Adolphustown. The corps is operated by the U.E.L. Heritage Centre & Park, a non-profit preservation project of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, Bay of Quinte Branch.
The corps is made up of young people, with an interest in history and an enthusiasm for music. Regular practices are held monthly, and the group will perform throughout the warm weather months at re-enactments, community events and loyalist heritage functions. The aim of the corps is to promote Loyalist heritage and to foster the Adolphustown park as a tourist destination.
The corps will represent all Loyalist regiments that settled in the Eastern Ontario region. They will wear the uniform of the King’s Royal Yorkers, Buttler’s Rangers, Jessup’s Rangers and King’s Rangers. All of these regiments wore green coats faced red at one point during the Revolutionary War – and so we will wear red coats faced green as was customary for drummers to wear the reversed colours of their coats to distinguish themselves from the soldiers of the line.