MCV Multimedia for the Press
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Audio Samples (all from In America CD):15th Massachusetts Quickstep - MP3 (3.0 MB) Yankee Doodle - MP3 (2.7 MB) Rakes, Lords & Idiots - MP3 (6.0 MB) Pretty Polly - MP3 (3.9 MB) Hill Medley - MP3 (6.3 MB) |
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Middlesex County Volunteers Media Information
Members of the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums (MCV) are putting in extra hours this fall, preparing to perform at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August 2007. This will be the first fife and drum corps to ever perform at the fifty-seven year-old event, and the first avocational group from the United States. Previous U.S. representations – thirteen in the history of the event – have been either military or university ensembles.
Sixty-five members of MCV will participate in the performance, which will play to a live audience of 217,000 and 500 million international television viewers. The nucleus of MCV’s membership lives throughout the greater Boston area, as well as in New Hampshire and Connecticut. Remote members live in Wisconsin, Virginia, California – and Switzerland. Local musicians rehearse two times a week, while remote members depend on travel, technology, and innovation to learn music and choreography. Members range from ages eighteen to sixty-five and work in a wide range of vocations, including a teacher, a truck driver, administrators, moms and dads, software engineers, an insurance salesman, a stockbroker, students, an artist, a volunteer policeman, and a satellite communications specialist.
Dressed in the 1779 uniform of the Continental Army, the group’s music spans over seven centuries. The group performs an average of sixty times a year, and has produced seven full-length recordings. Often seen as the image of Boston, MCV highlights Boston’s annual Harborfest celebration, and has performed with the Boston Pops at their July 4th Esplanade concert and the Democratic Convention, and well as at Tanglewood and Symphony Hall.
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the “Olympics of international music festivals” began in 1950 and hosts one thousand performers for the month-long event every August.
Founded in 1982, Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2007.
This intriguing story can be told in several ways. It is:
- the story of American’s past history, through the image, music and dedication to the country’s earliest citizens.
- the story of America’s present , a diverse group of individuals with a common goal, working together to perform in an international arena.
- the story of America’s future, designing a national – and international – collaboration within its vast membership breaking geographic boundaries.
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