“All-Stars” Big Hit At Lilac Parade

On Saturday May 10th, the corps was honored to have a good number of Empire “All-Stars” join them for the annual Lilac Day Parade.  Starting with a 9:30 warm-up the “All-Stars” were busy getting ready to parade down the route to excite the crowd statesmen style.  The corps was the first musical entry and it was wonderful to see close to 90 Empire Statesmen on the street.

The corps played Yankee Doodle and Rio many times to a very receptive Lilac crowd.  The street beat of old was resurrected and all the vocals were ringing through the streets just like the “old days”.   It was a proud day in Statesmen history.

“All-Stars” who participated were:

Brian King                              Donny Allen
Travis Fitch                            Tommy Allen
Dave Seeley                          Chris Castellon
Erika McBride                       Barb Fitch
Daniele Lyman                      Jennifer King
Ray Hafner                             Carrie Wolford
Bob Albanese                        Roxy Hall

We saw many “All-Stars” lining the parade route.  We hope that they will join the “band wagon” and come and play for the Memorial Day Parade, 4th of July Parade or the 5th of July Encore performance at the DCA show at St. John Fisher College.

For any information contact the Statesmen Office at 585-266-2232 or call Jimmy Steele at 585-317-9389.

Music Charts for Alumni!

Welcome back Empire Statesmen Alumni!! Happy Anniversary!

We are so happy you clicked the link to arrive at this page.  25 years have come and gone since Mr. B founded this one-of-a-kind Drum Corps that you were a part of.  Here we are in 2008 celebrating our 25th Anniversary!  We want you to be a part of it.  Here is a list of events that you are welcome to step back into the ranks and have some fun with the current Corps.    

We want to stay in touch with you.  Please email the office with your current info so we can add you to the Alumni roster.  esmen@rochester.rr.com

• Alumni Party (Saturday, April 5th)
• Lilac Day Parade (Saturday, May 10th)
• Irondequoit Memorial Day Parade (Sunday, May 25th)
• Pittsford Memorial Day Parade (Monday, May 26th)
• Irondequoit 4th of July Parade (Friday, July 4th)
• ROCHESTER SHOW – (Saturday, July 5th)
• 25th Anniversary Ball (Saturday, November 29th)

Alumni Rehearsal Report and Lilac Info 5/5/08

On Sunday May 4th, the Empire Statesmen invited all alumni to come and work on parade tunes for the upcoming Lilac, Memorial Day and 4th of July parades.  Despite the less than beautiful weekend, the turnout was very good and we look forward to having more alums at the next rehearsal.  The next alumni rehearsal will be held Saturday June 14th from 4:30-6:00 pm at Tech Park.  It sounded and looked great and it was a blast to see the alums in the ranks again.

In attendance were:

I (Jimmy Steele) personally would like to apologize to David Martin and Stash Hoholuk for coming on Saturday.  There was a mistake in the last letter that was my fault (didn’t proofread it enough).  Both of these fine alums came on Saturday just to find out that it was on Sunday.  It was great to see you both and we hope that we will see you at a parade or at the July 5th extravaganza.

If you are planning on marching this upcoming Saturday (May 10th) at the Lilac Parade, here are the particulars:

Line-Up:  Science Parkway (directions on statesmen.org)

Time:  Report and ready to warm-up at 9:00 am (Science Parkway) Parade begins at 10:30 am
We are the first musical group (so basically leading the parade) we will be through the parade by approximately 11:30 pm.

Uniform:  If you would like to buy an “All-Star” shirt they will be available on Saturday at the parade.  They are $20 for Small-X-Large and $22 for XX-Large…please be prepared with a white golf shirt just in case we sell out before you get there.

If you do not wish to get one, please wear a white golf shirt in place of the All Star shirt.  In addition, please wear black pants and black shoes/socks.  Guard can wear black capri pants if they wish.

We are looking forward to getting the current membership and the alumni together for the first parade if the year.  We hope to see you there!!!