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• The Show of Shows 2010!

  Snow of Snows?  No, winter cannot and did not stop the awesome Philadelphia Mummers String Band Association Show of Shows!  16 bands performed this weekend at two shows at fabulous Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.  For members of the bands and their families it is part show, part reunion, part work,...

• Celebration of the Fancy Brigades

  In a year in which 50 years of Fancy Brigades will be celebrated, the Philadelphia Mummers Brigade Association followed up the exciting New Year’s Day performances with the annual Brigades Awards Banquet last night.  South Philly Vikings were honored for their 1st Prize finish(as well as 1st...

• Cheers to Local 2493!

  Yes, Cheers Cheers Cheers to IAFF Local 2493 this afternoon and evening at Casey?s Saloon in Drexel Hill, where thousands of dollars has been raised for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and research into neuromuscular diseases.  Firefighters from all over stopped by, from as far away as Scranton,...

• Mums of La Mancha!

  It was a momentous occasion tonight in the cavernous gymnasium at St. Matthew?s School in National Park, New Jersey.  Members of Quaker City String Band, rehearsing for the upcoming Show of Shows, kept one eye on the music and one eye on the prize waiting in the corner.   Jake Hart, the judge of...

• Firefighters to the Rescue! (and Mummers, too!)

  Stop on by Casey’s on Lansdowne Avenue in Drexel Hill this Saturday, February 20th, between 3pm and 7pm, and help raise money for treatments and cures for neuromuscular diseases.   Upper Darby Firefighters Local 2493 is again sponsoring the annual MDA Pour for the Cure!  It’s the sixth...

• Ferko’s Finest

  If you ever pass Joe Blass on the street, turn around and follow him.  You have to.   As he walks, notes and stories compiled from 7 decades of String Bands, fall from his pockets.  At least, that’s how I imagine it.  Few have witnessed so much and known so many people involved in the crazy...

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