20th ANNUAL GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

MUSIC MUSTER, AUGUST 14 and 15 

SCHEDULE AND PERFORMERS

Friday, August 14

Tent Performances in front of the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

12:00 – 12:45pm Libby Prison Minstrels

1:00 – 1:45pm Steve Ball

2:00 – 2:45pm Susquehanna Travellers

3:00 – 3:45pm the Irish Volunteers

4:00 – 4:45pm David Kincaid

5:00 – 5:45pm Camptown Shakers

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Saturday, August 15 

Tent Performances front of the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

9:00 am – 9:45 am The Irish Volunteers

10:00 am – 10:45 am The 46th PA Regiment Band

11:00 am – 11:45 am The 77th NY Regimental Balladeers

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Fort Delaware Cornet Band

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm The Susquehanna Travellers

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm David Kincaid

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Steve Ball

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Camptown Shakers

5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Libby Prison Minstrels

Performances on the Flagpole plaza, Museum and Visitor Center

9:40 am – 10:00 am Steve Ball

10:00 am – 10:20 am The Irish Volunteers

10:20 am – 10:40 am David Kincaid

10:40 am – 11:00 am The Susquehanna Travellers

11:30 am – 12:00 pm Libby Prison Minstrels

Indoor Performances, Visitor Center Group Lobby

10:00 am – 10:30 am Marshall & Company Music

11:00 am – 11:30 am Doug Jimerson

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Marshall & Company Music

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Doug Jimerson

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm The Victorian Dance Ensemble w/The Susquehanna Travellers

Dobbin House Courtyard Performances:

10:30 am – 11:00 am Libby Prison Minstrels

11:00 am – 11:30 am Steve Ball

11:30 am – 12:00 pm The Victorian Dance Ensemble w/The Susquehanna Travellers

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm David Kincaid

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Camptown Shakers

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Irish Volunteers

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm The 77th NY Regimental Balladeers

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Doug Jimerson

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Fort Delaware Cornet Band

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm 46th PA Regiment Band

Pennsylvania Memorial Performances:

5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Fort Delaware Cornet Band

6:00 pm – 6:45 pm 46th PA Regiment Band

7:00 pm – 7:45 pm 77th NY Regimental Balladeers
2015 Gettysburg National Military Park

Music Muster Performer Bios:

Libby Prison Minstrels portray the original orchestra composed of imprisoned officers at Libby Prison in 

Richmond VA. The Infamous prison of the Civil War saw as many as 1300 Union Soldiers, mostly 

officers, in its six dark and dank rooms. Despite the horrors of the prison’s conditions, this musical group 

managed to purchase instruments from the outside and put on shows that were a wonderful respite from 

the hardships of prison life. 

The Susquehanna Travellers perform the music of 19th Century America focusing on Civil War era and 

Irish music. The musicians are civil war re-enactors and members of the 87th PA Volunteer Infantry. The 

band got its start playing traditional tunes around the campfire at civil war re-enactments and with the 

support and encouragement of other re-enactors, the lads decided to officially form the Susquehanna 

Travellers. While the band certainly enjoys playing for the public, they feel most at home playing for their 

fellow re-enactors around the campfire. The Travellers will perform with the Victorian Dance Ensemble 

on the Dobbin House Courtyard and indoors at the Visitor Center.

The Victorian Dance Ensemble is the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation. This year 

marks its fifteenth appearance at Music Muster. Founded in 1995, the Ensemble has presented dance 

demonstrations for the Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, Civil War Preservation Trust, 

Pennsylvania Civil War Trails Project, Gettysburg Foundation, and numerous other organizations, historic 

sites and museums. In 2009, they performed at one of the Inaugural Balls in Washington, D.C., and 

danced in the oratorio “For the People” in celebration of the Lincoln Bicentennial. The Victorian Dance 

Ensemble will perform along with the music of the Susquehanna Travellers at the Dobbin House 

Courtyard and indoors at the Visitor Center. The indoor program will culminate with audience 

participation; a long-standing tradition of the Music Muster.

The 46th Pennsylvania Regimental Band, are also referred to as The Logan Guards, they were a militia 

unit organized in 1858 in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. They gained fame in April 1861, when President 

Lincoln issued an urgent appeal for troops to protect Washington in response to the firing by rebels on 

Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The President's call was issued late on April 16, 1861. The 

Logan Guards and four other companies of Pennsylvania militia were the first troops to arrive in the 

nation's capital. They marched out of Lewistown listening to William Hopper, a lone fifer, play "The Girl I 

Left Behind Me." This will be their sixth visit to the Gettysburg Music Muster. 

The 77th NY Regimental Balladeers are celebrating their 19th year preserving the songs, history, and 

spirit of the 1860s and their fourteenth appearances at the Muster. The band was recently presented with 

the Medallion of Excellence by the Rhode Island National Guard. The group is honored and grateful for 

the opportunity to play at the Pennsylvania Memorial. This year's sunset program will evoke the memory 

of our ancestors who fought on this hallowed ground with special performances of ‘‘Nearer My God to 

Thee'' and "Come Dearest the Daylight Is Gone." Both of these selections have an historical significance 

at Gettysburg National Military Park.

David Kincaid, the Irish Volunteer, returns for his 12

th Appearance at the Gettysburg Music Muster. 

Kincaid recognized as both musician and historian presents a compelling combination of the songs and 

history of the Irish in the American Civil War. Having performed at a variety of Irish/Celtic festivals, 

historical sites and folk music venues across the US, as well as European tours, Kincaid’s music has also 

been used in several documentary films, and he was engaged as a consultant and performer in the 

Hollywood Civil War film release “Gods and Generals.” 

The Irish Volunteer Civil War Band is a Western NY based four piece group. All four members have 

long backgrounds in Celtic and folk music. They arrived on the Civil War and period scene in 2007. Since 

then they have delighted audiences at reenactments that include Amherst, Marilla, Granger Homestead in 

Canandaigua, Peterboro, Mumford, Erie Canal Village Civil War Days, and the Civil War Music Heritage 

Weekend in Windham, NY, among others. This will be their fourth appearance at the Muster. 

The Fort Delaware Cornet Band, making their second appearance at the Muster this year, is an 

authentic Civil War Era Brass and Percussion Sextet portraying an artillery band from Fort Delaware. 

They play brass music of the Civil War Era. The group plays on authentic period instruments as well as 

performing in period reproduction Union uniforms of the Civil War. 
Steve Ball also making his second appearance at the Muster is a musician and historian from Columbus 

Ohio who started both playing the guitar and studying the American Civil War at the age of twelve. Over 

the years, he developed an interest in older styles of American music, and has performed in Folk groups, 

Bluegrass and Country bands, Square dance bands, and even a Western trio. 

Making their first Muster appearance, the Camptown Shakers, come from Adams, Chester, and 

Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania; local boys. They play 19th century, popular, American Civil War era 

and stroke style banjo, fiddle, & percussion. Though they are history-minded their playing and singing 

has turned Victorian society on its head!

Marshall and Company Music will perform for the first time at the Muster. They come from a place of 

education. Doug Marshall taught a variety of instruments including mandolin, fiddle and banjo. Along 

with Tina Buchannan, they have added Civil War era music to their repertoire. Their performances are 

reminiscent of the parlor music that was played in the home when the times were much simpler and 

singing and music solved a variety of ill.

Doug Jimerson has been absent from the Muster for several years, but we are so thrilled to welcome 

this very accomplished musician, concert tenor and musicologist to our 20th Anniversary lineup! His 

specialty is historical and patriotic American music, but it’s varied from Stephen Foster to Lincoln to 

Beethoven.

For photos and other musician information, contact:

Lawrence Keener-Farley - Victorian Dance Ensemble

CivilWarDance@verizon.net 

www.CivilWarDance.org 

2 Westminster Blvd., Camp Hill PA 17011

717-364-9764 Cell 

 

Craig Hershock- Susquehanna Travelers

chershock@cyberia.com

2575 Sandy Lane, York, PA 17406-2459

717-849-5056 W 

Allen Brenner

derby1@mindspring.com

Rick Long - 46th PA Regimental Band

DAY: (814) 378-1007 EVE: (814) 658-7354 Cell: (814) 931-2517

rlong7416@earthlink.net

PO Box 52, Houtzdale, PA 16651 

Don Dwyer - The Irish Volunteers 

716-818-1817

E-mail: email@irishvolunteers.net

Website: www.irishvolunteers.net

9 Sandpiper Court, Amherst NY 14228

Rich Mendoza - The Libby Prison Minstrels 

856-424-8754

E-mail: jrct10@verizon.net

www.libbyprisonminstrels.com

13 Brookstone Drive, Voorhees NJ 08043

David Kincaid – The Irish Volunteer

718-524-4594 (home) 917-353-0071(cell)

hauntedfld@earthlink.net

72B Townsend Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10304-3714 
John C. Quinn - 77th New York Regimental Balladeers 

518- 885-6665 or (518) 734-5655 Fax 518-734-5655

JCQuinn@webtv.net

RD Box 313 Cross Road, Windham NY 12496

Jim Ludlam – Fort Delaware Cornet Band

856-371-5379

darthtuba@hotmail.com

Facebook - LIKE Fort Delaware Cornet band

PO Box 46, Alloway NJ 08001, 

Steve Ball Civil War Music

pilot466ds@aol.com

http://steveballcivilwarmusic.com/home

3670 Schirtzinger Road, Columbus OH 43026

Doug Jimerson

Jimerson@erols.com

240-421-1167

Doug Marshall - Marshall & Company Music

540-538-4762

Marshall_and_co@yahoo.com

www.marshallandcompanymusic.com

King Bennett - Camptown Shakers

Facebook – Camptown Shakers

Kingbee4504@yahoo.com