Buckeye League Band and Orchestra Festival Held in Sandusky in 1938

Bands from Sandusky High School, Fremont Ross, Tiffin Columbian, and Findlay High School all participated in a parade in Sandusky on May 6, 1938, to kick off the Buckeye League Band and Orchestra Festival. Pictured above is the Sandusky High School band marching north down Decatur Street. 

The school name of Fremont is spelled out on the tubas in the Fremont Ross band, seen below.

   

The majorette and members of the Tiffin Columbian drum corps wore conservative uniforms, typical of fashions in the 1930s.

                                         

Though this picture is not very sharp, you can see the retail shops on the street level of the Hotel Rieger, as the parade goes by.

The Sandusky Community Music Festival included a series of events between May 6 and May 12. Participants in the music festival included the Buckeye League Orchestra, the Buckeye League Bands, the Sandusky Male Chorus, the Sandusky Choral Society, Grace Church Choir, and the Senior High Choir and Choruses. The May 7, 1938 issue of the Sandusky Register reported that an estimated crowd of nine hundred listened to the Buckeye League Bands at the concert given at Jackson Junior High School on May 6.  Tickets for the entire musical series were sold for one dollar each.