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| Date: | 11 17 1932 |
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| Description: | The Madison Civic Orchestra poses onstage after the Parkway concert. |
| Date: | 11 03 1937 |
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| Description: | Six children playing violins, a drum and a piano at the Wisconsin School of Music. |
| Date: | 01 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Man playing drum set in a photographic studio. |
| Date: | 06 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Man dressed as a cowboy playing a guitar and singing in front of WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 11 09 1933 |
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| Description: | George J. Friedrich, floor manager at the Burdick & Murray Co., playing a Melodian at the Bullard house, 1154 E. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 04 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre orchestra at Pennco Field (Royal Airport) to welcome the Ray-O-Vac Twins. |
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| Description: | Members of the orchestra look closely at the conductor as he leads them in the performance of a piece of music. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A maestro leads shriner musicians from the Zor Shrine German Band as they play their instruments on the steps of the Masonic Temple on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 11 1941 |
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| Description: | John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is... |
| Date: | 08 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Joe Yansky (Bohemian), a one-man band with an accordion and drums. |
| Date: | 08 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Joe Yanksy (Bohemian), a one-man band with accordion and drums. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on a stage as part of her truck stop tour. The tour was sponsored by International... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Menominee Indian Band playing at the Wisconsin Centennial Year Kick-off Ceremony in the Wisconsin State Capitol. They played a one hour concert in the morn... |
| Date: | 08 18 1977 |
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| Description: | Sally Perringer (in the foreground) plays the Stumpf fiddle in the Firehouse Band from Port Washington. The performance took place at the eighth annual pic... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Elsie Taschek at the keyboard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison carillon. Traditionally the carillon was always played by men before World War II. |
| Date: | 12 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Eight girls (on the left side from floor to harp) Ruth Quale, Mary Fess, Patricia Kinney, Elaine Tripalin, (girl in the center) Carlene Stoker, (right side... |
| Date: | 02 26 1945 |
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| Description: | WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti... |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Posed with their fiddles are Theodore Rygh, Jr., of Woodford, left - third place finisher, and Herman "Tex" Falkenstein, of Madison, right - second place f... |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Martin Christiansen of Edgerton, the oldest fiddler at the Old-Time Fiddlers contest at the Madison Community Center. He is 77 and has been playing almost ... |
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