to see the picturesThis year I included some detailed aerial photos of many of the places that we played. Of course they were all taken sometime prior to when we were there, but it give a good overview of the area. These pictures are available and were captured from a screenshot at http://local.live.com Better detail is available form that sight as I have compressed the images for web display.
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June 11, 2006 Holy Ghost Feast, Saint Joseph's. July 4, 2006 Block Island. July 9, 2006 East Taunton Holy Ghost Feast. July 16, 2006 Bridgewater Nursing Home. July 23, 2006 Pope Nursing Home, Weymouth, MA. July 25, 2006 Caswell Grove. August 1, 2006 Fitzsimmons Arms. Sept 10, 2006 Bridgewater (second time).
Like last year this was all processional marches. We played four marches each way and then Son's of The Brave at the end. The Fall River Portuguese Band was also There this year. Mass was at 10:30, we waited a little over an hour, and we were finished at 12:15. See this aerial photo . You can see our entire line of march from the club house on the lower right to the church on the upper left.
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Major changes this year. The parade started up on a hill at the "Spring House" hotel. It was probably about a 1/2 mile from where we used to end. We then marched the regular parade in the reverse direction stopping to play the "Star Spangled Banner" a couple of times. At the end (what used to be the beginning) we took a bus back to the parking lot. It took a while for lunch because, as usual, They weren't ready for us. After lunch we had about an hour concert then caught the boat back.
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I was almost late for this one as I had the start time mixed up. I didn't get any pictures at the beginning. See this aerial photo club house and aerial photo church.
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Another hot gig at the Bridgewater Nursing Home. This year we were located in the shade of a large tree facing towards the home. See this aerial photo . We set up under the tree in the upper right corner of the picture.
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This is the first time we have played here. It was a nice tree shaded location in Weymouth. The audience sat up on the front porch and looked down on us. I have added a panorama taken before we started to play. See this aerial photo .
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Every year the plants in the garden grow bigger and taller. this year people sitting facing the front of the band were almost completely blocked by plants.
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Traditionally our last concert of the year (except this year see 9/10/06). The last picture (No. 20) is the first 4 stitched together but this time I did not reduce to 640x480 so it is about 1 mb ins size and may take a while to load. See this aerial photo
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Brought back by popular demand! This is the last concert of the season. It was rescheduled to September in order to try and find a cooler day than we had for the first concert.
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