It established 14 town bands, of which two represented Freedmen.

But as radio brought an alternative source of music, most town bands disappeared.

But in the following weeks he whips the town band into shape.

He was good enough to make the town band a few years later.

This summer, a Tuesday night concert series held on the town green, with polka, big band and 1950's rock, has kept people downtown after sunset.

At thirteen, he was the only boy in the men's town band.

He grew up surrounded by music, as the town band was composed almost entirely of his uncles.

Her mother is a tuba player for the town band.

He also played the baritone horn in the town band, and eventually became the conductor.

Three years later, on May 28, 1951, he moved to Clear Lake, where the town band came with the job of school music teacher.