Irish Music Festival – NCPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums — live event

We’re an NYPD fraternal organization of Irish and Irish-American police who formed as a band in 1960 \Since 1945, the most remarkable change in the character of Irish music in New York has been the proliferation of the bagpipe band. The bands appearing in the St. Patrick's Day parade in 1945 consisted of five Irish county bands (Tyrone, Cork, Armagh, Tipperary and Monahan) along with the New York Gaelic Pipers and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Pipe Band. 1 The county bands drew their support from their respective organizations for whom they would perform at periodic functions and fund raisers. These organizations supported social and other needs of the newly arrived immigrant and his dependents. The pipe bands, however, drew their membership from wherever it was available and those joining these bands did so more out of convenience than any sense of loyalty to the county organization . The roster of pipe bands marching forty-five years later on St. Patrick's Day 1990 lists fortytwo bands. While Irish county pipe band participation remained a constant, a major new category of band had emerged, i.e., the service band associated with civil service organizations and their Emerald societies. The first service band to march in the New York St. Patrick's Day parade was the New York City Police Department Emerald Society Pipe Band which made its debut in 1961. This group, which drew on the Irish tradition ingrained for a century in the New York Police Department, was to serve as a model, a source of inspiration and, in many cases through its membership, a resource for later bands which were to follow.

Starts: 2024-05-19T12:00:10Z

Ends: 2024-05-19T19:00:10Z

Where: 1132 Hempstead Turnpike, Franklin Square, New York 11010, United States

Price: $15.0

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