Philly Fife and Drum Upcoming Projects

The company is now 10 members strong and growing. In the last few weeks three established fife and drummers began preparations to join us for performances next season. We will be collaborating with Guts and Blackpowder with five game players portraying our players, Revolution250 to present at some of the major semisesquicentennial celebrations happening in the Boston area in 2025 and with the new music ensemble Orchestra 2001 premiering newly created works over the next two years.

Philly Fife and Drum Recent Events

Carpenter’s Hall was the site of America250PA’s convening of states and partners in preparation for the nation’s Semiquincentennial. Philly Fife and Drum was at the ground floor of these celebrations.

St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lafayette Hill, held a special historical and educational event earlier on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024 where our fife and drum corps performed

St. Peter’s, in conjunction with the American Friends of Lafayette, commemorated the battle of Barren Hill, which was centered around St. Peter’s original church building. There was a historical presentation on Lafayette by John Shiffert. Afterwards the Philly Fife and Drum Company performed and prepare visitors for self-guided tours of the church graveyard. The key part of the Battle of Barren Hill, the church graveyard contains the graves of 14 members of the Continental army, as well as being the last resting place of six Oneida scouts who fought alongside the colonials in 1778.