The Fifes and Drums of CW are just amazing! I never get tired of watching them.

Damn-they are GOOD! makes my heart swell with pride!!!

Its history just enjoy it and stop trying to change it !!

@sirvincent7263

8 жыл бұрын

+gary perry "The future is known - it is always bright - but it's the past that is always changing" - sardonic Soviet saying.

I live here and they are great! My second grade brother is in this.

Performed this year at the Long's Peak Scottish Irish Festival in Estes Park, Colorado. Excellent!

What a great video!!! Please make more.

They are wearing red uniforms faced in blue because general Washington called for musicians to wear opposing colors of their respective corps so that they may be easily identified on the field by their commander. it had nothing to do with not being shot by their own side or the other for that matter. and the brits didnt wear blue.....if their uniforms were faced in yellow or black or green their coats would be the facing color......not blue.

Amazing performance!

Man, I miss living in Williamsburg. Even more since I recognize 3 friends in this video.

Say what you want about military musicians, there was a time when they'd march into battle armed with only a fife or drum. That took some stones.

@silverjohn6037

3 жыл бұрын

The bandsmen would march the troops into battle but once the fight started they'd stack up the drums and fall into their secondary task as stretcher bearers, going to the worst parts of the battle line to evacuate the wounded.

I want the uniforms so bad

I love the song they first play of the Irish Brigade.....love it! Sorry to say that I am a Grenadier with His Majesty's 5th Regiment of Foot under his Lordship General-Lord Cornwallis, but I still love the music.

@seankelly1366

7 ай бұрын

L'espirit de Corps..

Excellent Thanks

The Sons of the American Revolution are always in need of color guardsmen willing to help out in presentations. When these young "age out" they can continue in service in the SAR.

I think it's because they wear reverse facing colours, it was common in French and British armies too, the British musicians wearing red collars and cuffs with the regimental facing colour as the main jacket colour. Blue for Royal regiments but could be green, buff, yellow, white etc. for other regiments.

Definitely going to Colonial Willamsburg.

they actually wore the reverse of the standard uniform. The Americans wore red as the piping on the American uniform was red. The British bands actually wore white.

Read what you just wrote. You are correct in that the regiment had blue coats. The musicians would have therefore worn red coats faced in blue.

im part of the fifes and drums. its actually ages 10 - 18

I've been to England, and now live in Yorktown near Williamsburg. It is like a little part of England someone plucked up and set down in Virginia.

DAMN they are good !!!

Wow fantastic.

British 'Murica at its finest. Blaming my British Ancestry I still feel more American but still have a connection with Brittania

@timesthree5757

5 жыл бұрын

Well we blame Parliament and the king more than the British people. WOW, some things never change.

@rodgeyd6728

4 жыл бұрын

@@timesthree5757 😁

Timeless.

Military fife and drum corps of that time period wore reverse colors to differentiate from the combat men so as to avoid being gunned down by the enemy

I wish I was there

That was a great proformance

I love it

Funny how one of the cheapest instruments of it's time has now become so expensive...

With due respect to your comments the politicians and people were just as crooked and morally bankrupt as we are today. Patriotism was not the issue then. It was survival from day to day which exhausted even the toughest. It was a sense of injustice instead of having a strong national sense. We are a lot softer today then back then.

As a member of the fife and drum corps, the name of the first tune is Rondeau (pronounced) Rondo by Mouret or Rondeau for short

It was my dream to be a member of the fife and drum corps of Williamsburg. I play fife but unfortunately I lived in Missouri at the time when i was that age. I also heard that its hard to get in? Like dont you have to be on a waiting list or something? My dad would take me to Williamsbury every year on vacation and i ALWAYS begged him to move us here so i could join. haha

I'm in the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drums, though Im not in this video(I'm in junior core not senior)

Wearing the colors of the enemy kept them from being killed. The fife and drum players kept the pace if marching. On the field they could signal to turn, advance and retreat. Fife and drum members were often quite young.

In that period, it was standard practice to have the regiment's bandsmen in opposite colors of their fighting counterparts. So while the regiment may have been in a dark blue coat with red facings, the bandsmen would be in red coats with blue facings

Please forgive the spelling errors, I was in a bit of a hurry

What is their playlist of tunes here?

@Somerandomdrummer1775

3 жыл бұрын

I can't give you the entire list because we don't play those tunes anymore but the couple are Rondeau by Mouret, Hessian Guards(drum solo) Drummonds Rant, Carlen is your daughter ready?, and the last three are yankee doodle, the world turned upside down, and chester.

' Retreat ' Never! Withdraw, never retreat.

If I am not mistaken, it is entitled "Hell On The Wabash"....a tune used by the Union Iron Brigade....

What is the tune they open with called?

Wait, the opening guy didn't use to narrate for History Channel? I mean the ooold History Channel, with shows like "Tales of the Gun".

I don't think gary owen is 18th century... of course I could be mistaken

Correct...and the drummers WERE targeted because they acted as the "radiomen" of the day. They were also paid more than a private soldier due to this hazard. I reenact with the 7th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line. One of our officers was the youngest member ever of the F & D Corps - at 8; they usually take only 10-18 yrs old. He showed up and auditioned as a fifer. He is now the 2nd generation of a 3 gen. reenacting family. AND a GREAT fifer!!!

As I understand it, the combat troops wore blue uniforms with red trim; musicians wore red uniforms with blue trim.

whats the name of the first song they play???

@MetallicaFan035 same here, you check out the Middlesex county volunteers fife and drums their good too.

It IS a confusing situation - please try to make a visit to CW and/or a RevWar reenactment if you can swing a visit our way :) This yr is also the 1812 Bicentennial and within the 150th yrs commemoration of the Civil War years. MANY great opportunities to see larger special events. Look at state tourism sites for FREE ones!

Im not completely sure if that correct, but the reasoning is sound and I believe Williamsburg was founded not too long (maybe 5-10 years after Jamestown, and naming colonial settlements after the reigning monarch was, as Im sure you know, the theme of the time. It was very intriguing to find out (this is some years ago) that the Dutch actually staged a small invasion of England and (in a round about way and with circumstance) actually conquered it. I havent found an Englishman to admit this yet.

While what he said was mostly correct, wearing opposite colors of infantry was for their own commanders, not the opposing side. They needed to be able to recognize their musicians through the smoke of battle. All routine and tactical orders were passed by beat of drums so that the soldiers could hear them wherever they were standing.

Well, it could be that the drum and fife Corps wore the opposing army's colors, since the color guard is in Continental Army Blue, plus if this is representation of the British America Colonial era, pre-Revolution, the Corps would have been part of the militia of each colony. Some militia's wore red coats as subjects to the Crown and detachments of the British Army.

Tyler Mac 1988

Reversed colors was standard practice in the 18th century-besides we needed something to do with the British uniforms the navy was capturing.

It has nothing to do with wearing the enemy's colors, its is reversed coat colors, the British royal regiment musician maintain the red coats but added extra decoration; for example the 23rd reg Royal Welsh but non-royal regiment reverse their coats . The Contiental army musicians, all state and other regiments reversed their colors. It just for recognition but a drummer would defnitely get shot.

@summerrosesutton3073

6 жыл бұрын

The reason they are called the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums is because they portraying military fife and drums of THAT ERA. During that era, they were BRITISH subjects and therefore the Uniforms would have been British, NOT American military. Personally, we should all be glad and honored that Colonial Williamsburg is still there after TWO wars fought in that region. It helps us all to be able to stand our collective history much better.

@rudimentaldrumming625

5 жыл бұрын

@@summerrosesutton3073 I'm sorry, but although this is a sadly common myth about the corps, it is completely factually incorrect. They portray the Virginian State Garrison Regiment, an American-affiliated wartime regiment founded in 1778. The previous commenter was correct.

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@raymondacbot4007

6 жыл бұрын

filmed in 1781

it was the standard at the time.

Incorrect. It was traditon in armies of the period that Musicians wear "reversed colors", that would be that their coats were the colors of the facings of the uniforms of the men in the line. hence, if the the color of the uniform was blue, and the facings red, then the music would wear Red coats with blue facings, should the color, in the example of british troops, be yellow, than yellow coats with red facings, and the coat trimmed profuslely with the regimental lace

anyone know the name of the tune starting at 3:25?

@ianowen1439

10 жыл бұрын

Drummond's Rant - Carlan, is your daughter ready?

@spec10

10 жыл бұрын

Ian Owen Big thanks mate, that's the one. :)

Musicians during that era wore the colors of the enemy to ensure they would not be killed. The British musicians would wear blue.

This makes me want to put on some knickers grab my musket and go to war.

Color Guard is in the Blue

No. Musicians of that period wore the reversed colors of the regiment they served in. Their particular regiment would have had coaats of blue faced in red. The same held true in the British Army as well.

isn't it weird that the trooping is O'Carolans and St. Patricks day Brisk

Interesting that they wear red like the British redcoats. What's the history surrounding as I thought they were blue during the Independence War.

What's that tune at 3:30?

@taigapup

8 жыл бұрын

Drummond's Rant

@emiliodibenedetto4654

8 жыл бұрын

taigapup Thank you. : ) Thank you very much.

@sergiofrigo4054

7 жыл бұрын

marche royale de jean battiste LULLY

Americans walking in to a French tune... Awk hahaha

No Taxation without Representation!

@dadufur

10 жыл бұрын

Lol...God Save the Queen, yes! Will you take a note? Spot me 20 till payday....

@michaelpreston233

10 жыл бұрын

***** We paid you back twice, in 1917 and 1940.

@jazzbanjo1887

9 жыл бұрын

Before the war, we were offered seats in Parliament, but Ben Franklin was told, in no uncertain terms, to refuse them.

@Aim4sixmeals

9 жыл бұрын

D.A. DuFur Funny that our idiots that emmigrated from united kingdom to America to have a better life then they were against us and ruled us awau

@Aim4sixmeals

9 жыл бұрын

michael preston With fake money

:D!!!!!

R.i.P Headbones in the start ._,

Skip to 1:00 ish to get past the intro.

Mmmh...it isn't, someone talked about an "irish brigade" song? I don't know...

Not British the musicians were dressed in different colors to show they weren't combatants the button areas are the difference in American uniforms.

No, you're quite right. The American Revolution was not a war of tax evasion as many have portrayed it, although taxes did play a part. Indeed, it was the opposition in England (that is, the opposition to the administration of Robert Walpole) that spread throughout the American colonies that started the war. This opposition widely believed that they levying of taxes and the presences of a standing army were red flags that would be thrown up when tyranny was becoming a reality. So,

The reason they are in "British" color's is because, The marching band was often comprised of children and young teenagers, aside from keeping the marching pace. It was to keep them from getting shot. Wear the enemies color's, thus you don't lose your short life because you were picked to play the flute/drum's.

teenagers at war :D

down with the king , up with the rebels !!!!!!

Well we're all cousins in some way shape of form. Us Americans just happened to get pissed at ya, flipped ya off, and said so long.....no offense.

wow look at all those gold fringed corporate admiralty flags :( .

get ur own uniform

@marshalwilliams8129

6 жыл бұрын

ThEfextor they our are own uniforms band had reversed colots so they wouldnt be mistaken as soldiers

Continentials wearing themselves red uniforms. Perhaps i should stop drinking.

@johnchiocchi7270

9 жыл бұрын

Back in the days of muskets, which had a limited range and at best could fire 3 rounds a minute, troops lined up at different ends of the field of battle and march toward each other in lines, Musicians were used to signal different manuvers and formations with different song, bugle calls and drum cadences therefore the musicians wore different color uniforms so they could be seen by the rest of the army.

@fastestdino2

9 жыл бұрын

John Chiocchi That doesn't exactly tell me why the yanks are using the Queen's colours, and yes I am aware how musket warfare worked.

@johnchiocchi7270

9 жыл бұрын

SirIsaacBrockOfTheColonies So they could be seen, musicians wore the opposites colors of their units. If the units wore blue with red trim, the musicians wore red with blue trim. The post on the right, third from the top, "The U.S.Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Opens the General Session" also explains it. That's why they were dressed like "Lobster Backs".

@fastestdino2

9 жыл бұрын

John Chiocchi I guess that answers what i asked alot better.

@nicolew100

9 жыл бұрын

SirIsaacBrockOfTheColonies I think the British fife and drums wore yellow in comparison

they would look a lot better to mark time march by lifting there feet like there suppose to insted of mushing the ground that looks very tacky and very unmilitary

bloody britts

@simcityman81

10 жыл бұрын

And they wore Red uniforms basically so the British would see them as not carrying a weapon and therefore not a threat. It was also a lot easier for the commanders to find the opposite colors on the field when they needed them.

@cullensmith1817

10 жыл бұрын

The British drummers would wear tan uniforms to show likewise that they were no threat.

@Aim4sixmeals

9 жыл бұрын

Charles Davis Americans are most British ancestry so you spot your own

Keep it original I saw a few faces that should not have been there !!

@UncleBearski

8 жыл бұрын

In the very first battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Lexington, there were no fewer than ten black patriots. So stop being racist.

@grossleg123

7 жыл бұрын

Andy Wilderness not so some were born a "free"man

@grossleg123

7 жыл бұрын

Andy Wilderness I never said they were British red coats , I said they were in red coats American red coats , they are wearing red coats ,you stupid ass wipe

@grossleg123

7 жыл бұрын

Andy Wilderness if I meant British Redcoats I would have said that , you are so stupid and prob a troll so please keep taking your medication you will get better soon ( try the whole bottle in one go ) 😂

@grossleg123

7 жыл бұрын

Andy Wilderness very true EXEPT you have none

Tooooooo many drums. I would find it hard if I had to beat time and march to that racket.

its stupid how the old guard dresses up like redcoats. it would be cooler if they wore a continental army uniform or just period militia garb

@spec10

10 жыл бұрын

Military musicians of the period wore the reverse colors of the regiments to which they were assigned. The uniforms worn by the members of the Corps are dated circa 1781, and consist of black tricorn hats, white wigs, waistcoats, colonial coveralls, and red regimental coats.

@jcatcatcatcat26

10 жыл бұрын

spec10 didn't know that I appreciate at the new found knowledge :)

@spec10

10 жыл бұрын

jacob :)

@Zer0subz

10 жыл бұрын

Btw the Jr corps does wear a militia garb they just never leave colonial Williamsburg because they age from 12 - 16

enough of long winded introdutions , get on with the music !!!!!!