{"id":192241,"date":"2026-05-14T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:11:44","slug":"musical-group-bringing-patriotic-tunes-to-region-gearing-up-for-americas-250th-anniversary-celebrations-seeks-community-support-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192241\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical group bringing patriotic tunes to region gearing up for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, seeks community support | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – With America’s 250th anniversary celebrations ramping up, a local musical nonprofit is preparing for a busy year ahead.<\/p>\n

69 News Reporter Sydney Kay was in Salisbury Township with how it’s in need of donations to keep the sounds of the American Revolution going at events.<\/p>\n

Brandywine Colonials Fife & Drum Corps<\/a>\u00a0Co-Founder and Vice President Joshua Fink said the organization is dedicated to the education about and performance of military music from the\u00a0Revolutionary War period.<\/p>\n

The band wears the military uniforms from that time period as they play their patriotic tunes.<\/p>\n

Fink said the organization gets together several times a month to practice. The band spends time going over the music and practicing marching and drilling.<\/p>\n

The band performs in local parades, including an Armed Forces Day parade in Wyomissing this Saturday.<\/p>\n

The group will perform at the Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church in Allentown for a Memorial Day event on May 25 at noon. The band will be part of a procession that goes around a cemetery at the church. At the event, people will place flowers on veterans’ graves.<\/p>\n

35 Revolutionary War soldiers are buried at the cemetery. Three of those soldiers were musicians – two were drummers and one was a fifer.<\/p>\n

The band will give five performances all around the Lehigh Valley on July 4. The group rents a tour bus so it can travel around the region for performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steve Meitzler, Founder and President of the organization, which is based in Topton, said more members have been joining recently, which means the nonprofit needs more uniforms and instruments.<\/p>\n

The fife and drum corps has about 50 members right now,\u00a0Meitzler said.<\/p>\n

The organization is asking the community to help support it through donations. Anyone interested in donating to the nonprofit can go to its website<\/a> and go to the “Donate” tab.<\/p>\n

Meitzler said “it’s a matter of pride and nostalgia” to help preserve something that’s so important to the patriotic musical heritage of our country.<\/p>\n

Anyone 14 and older can join the fife and drum corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – With America’s 250th anniversary celebrations ramping up, a local musical nonprofit is preparing for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,85579,2183,78099],"class_list":["post-192241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-brandywine-colonials-fife-drum-corps","tag-salisbury-township","tag-united-states-semiquincentennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}