AHB

The American Heritage Band

Larry McCune, Leader and Arranger
910-673-3640
larry@mccuneweb.com

The American Heritage Band, of Moore County, North Carolina, preserves and plays a wide range of music and musical styles that have laid the foundations of popular music as we know it today. Our American musical heritage was established in the 19th and early 20th centuries from many cultures and ethnic backgrounds. This time was an era of canal building and then railroad building, industrialization, the gay nineties, and the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The people worked hard, but had fun. Just imagine Meredith Wilson's small town America from “The Music Man”. They sang, they danced and they celebrated life.

       Our repertoire draws on Irish, English, Scotch, Germanic, Latin and African-American roots. The musical styles are polkas, Irish jigs and reels, spirituals, hymns, dixieland, oom-pahs, ballads, drinking songs, folk songs, show tunes and marches. Background notes and corny jokes add variety and spice to our programs.

       The American Heritage Band consists of two clarinets, trumpet/flute, trombone, tuba, banjo and drums. This instrumentation is ideally suited to the music of the period and the wide range of styles we play. Our band members are:
     Larry McCune - clarinet plus leader and arranger
     Bob Kucinski - clarinet
     David Wall - trumpet and flute
     Dick Burke - trombone
     Bob Fewkes - tuba
     Ray Pardue - banjo
     Dave Byles - drums

       The American Heritage Band is available for one to one-and-a-half hour programs in any of the following formats:
     St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
     Oktober Fest or Bavarian Festivals
     American Heritage or Patriotic Festivals
     Any old celebration or just plain fun

Dixie
1 St. Louis Blues
2 Tin Roof Blues
3 Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
4 When the Saints Go Marching In
5 Birth of the Blues
6 South Rampart Street Parade

Germanic-Polka
1 A Thousand & One Nights
2 Ach, Du Leiber Augustin
3 Beer Barrel Polka
4 Chicken Dance
5 Clarinet Polka
6 Der Zircus Marz
7 Edelweiss
8 Eine Trinkspruch Zu Alles
9 Lichtensteiner Polka
10 Lili Marlene
11 Muss I Denn
12 Offen Der Faschen
13 Pennsylvania Polka
14 There's a Tavern
15 Unterlanders Heimweh
16 Vergessen Dein Frau
17 Viennesse Waltz Medley
18 Haben Manche Schnapps
19 Happy Wanderer
20 Too Fat Polka
21 Wiggle Woggle Polka

Irish
1 Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
2 Cherish The Ladies
3 Cooley's Reel
4 Danny Boy
5 Galway Piper
6 Gary Owen
7 I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
8 In The Gloaming
9 Irish Washerwoman
10 McNamara's Band
11 My Wild Irish Rose
12 O The Days Of Kerry Dancing
13 Peg O' My Heart
14 Rakes Of Mallow
15 Sweet Rosie O'Grady
16 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo
17 Wearing of the Green
18 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
19 Where the Praitees Grow
20 Black Velvet Band
21 Lord of the Dance