Philly Fife and Drum Upcoming Projects

As of the Spring of 2025, the company has fifteen players on the roster. We are collaborating with two Pennsylvania organizations preparing for Lafayette celebrations in 2025, three Pennsylvania towns as they gear up for the summer of 2026 and the new music ensemble Orchestra 2001, premiering newly created works for us over the next two years. We are also playing upcoming private parties at the Museum of the American Revolution and the Philadelphia Convention Center.

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.