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In 1840, Members of the Oneida tribe moved from New
York state to a reserve 20 miles south west of London. A
dumber of musicians in the group started a band and the
Oneida Marching Rand, featured at this year's Ciderfest, is
carrying on the tradition.
• e exact details are lost to history but there's been a
band in Oneida tor so long, it just wouldn't seem right
without one," says Neil Cornelius, of the Dept. of Indian
and Northern Affairs in London.
The marching band, which includes 35 playing members
and a color party of 10 from age six to 65, appear in local
parades, mostly in Ontario. For the first time, the band
marched in four parades in the Washington D.C. area this
year.
Though the band includes a lot of young members, one
musician is 94 -years -old and plays only when the band has a
concert. When he started, he was 8.
Since the 1900s there have been two bands on the Oneida
reserve. In the 1950s one of those bands was a reserve
school band and the brass band appearing at Ciderfest is a
teswt of that band.
MI of the members of the band are from the Oneida
reserve except the instructor, John Newell, his wife and two
others, all from Springfield, Ont.
To keep the band alive, younger members are actively
recruited and taught to play an instrument in a winter
training program.
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