When:
- Lexington Tattoo
- Friday, May 3 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- Lexington Muster
- Saturday, May 4 at noon
Where:
- Lexington Tattoo – From Depot Square to the Lexington Battle Green
- Lexington Muster – From Militia Drive along Worthen Road to Hastings Park
On Friday, four featured fife and drum corps, including the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps, The Musick of Prescott’s Battalion, Connecticut Patriots Fife and Drum Corps and the Stony Creek Fife and Drum Corps will perform. The Lexington Minute Men will be Presenting Colors.
The corps will march from Depot Square in Lexington to the Battle Green. Once the corps arrive to the Green a military song performance, called a tattoo, will be held consisting of Revolution-era music by lantern light.
On Saturday, a total of 28 fife and drum corps from six states will march from Militia Drive along Worthen Road to Hastings Park. This will commence a free afternoon of fife and drum music from the 18th century and beyond. In addition to the parade, there will be ten vendors selling replica colonial-period goods as well as 18th-century encampment demonstrations.
Individual corps performances, called “Stand Pieces,” will begin at 12:30 p.m. and will continue throughout the afternoon.
More information can be found at https://www.williamdiamondjrs.org/muster.
