Excelsior Cornet Band

Recreating the glorious sounds and appearance of this pivotal period in American history, the band performs the most popular melodies of the 1850-1870 period, as well as patriotic airs, operatic medleys, marches, and dance music by the era's most renowned composers and bandmasters. All of the band's musical arrangements come from the bandbooks of Civil War era bands, or are arranged from the original Civil War era sheet music. The musicians of the Excelsior Cornet Band are professional performers with many years of knowledge in a huge range of musical genres.