In a tribute to early American martial music, 600 members of fife-and-drum corps convene in Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. for the annual National Muster. Participants range from teenagers to septuagenarians.

Musicians on a British battlefield date from the 16th century, but by the second half of the 18th century most French, German and English army units and militia units in the American colonies had ...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On Tuesday, the sounds of fifes and drums trilled and pounded from the time-worn walls of Fort William Henry. Their players marched to the historic fort all the way from ...