Musicians from the Windjammers Circus Band had the time of their lives the day they all crammed into a small circus bandwagon for a parade in Chatfield, MN in 1981. For Harry, it was a dream come true.
Archive for the ‘Circus’ Category
Windjammers Circus Bandwagon
December 16th, 2010 The Carson & Barnes Circus
November 16th, 2010
Barbara recalls one of her most memorable circus performances–the day Harry was invited to sit in with the Carson and Barnes Circus as it warmed up for the performance. She had a seat right next to the chute where the Bengal tigers rushed past into the center ring–so close she could have touched them–and alongside the path where nineteen elephants and other assorted animals trotted by to get into the Grand Parade.
Circus Memories
November 16th, 2010
Clarinetist Jim George remembers his days of playing with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus . . . the nonstop music, his bleeding lips, and a herd of elephants charging past just two feet away.
The Windjammers Circus Band
May 4th, 2010Most of the great percussionists of the forties and fifties are gone now, but four of them were still playing their hearts out in the Windjammers Circus Band in the eighties and nineties: Harry Brabec, Charles Owen, Buster Bailey and Boyd Conway. In this article you’ll also meet their buddy, Doug MacLeod, now 88 and still drumming with the Windjammers and the Plymouth Community Band. “Playing now helps me to stay mentally alert and physically fit,” he says.
