Can you let us know when and where this will be available? I love
period music [from many periods]; I have the new Sting CD "Songs from
the Labyrinth", lute music of Elizabethan musician John Dowland, I
love it, listen to it in my car all the time. Thanks. I'd really love
to hear the song played on Roanoke Island when they returned to find
the colony gone. My parents retired there and I owned a house there
for 4 years. This may go beyond the interest of anyone in this group
[or it may open up a new topic, who knows?] but I once saw a ghost of
one of the colonists down there, a woman; I have been unable to find
out anything else about ghostly sightings other than the white deer
that was Virginia Dare. Personally, I think the bulk of the settlers
were taken away to live with friendly tribes, in safety, and a
skeleton crew of men stayed behind, in case the ships returned. It
was probably these that Powhatan said his men killed, and not all the
colonists. I think their genes live on in the Lumbee Indians on the
mainland. The gold gentleman's ring that was recently found at
Hatteras was quite interesting. The Hattorask Indians were a friendly
tribe.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Jan 14, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Randy Cabell wrote:

> Sounds great to me.  Don't forget to take as gifts the upcoming CD -
> "Jamestowne Jubilee 1807 1907 and 2007."
>
> The keynote track is "The Trumpeter of Jamestown March" which
> features two
> favorite English tunes of that Day.
>
> THE HUNT IS UP, which per an account in Samuel Elliot Morrisons
> tome on
> 'European Discovery of America' MAY have been played of the coast
> of North
> Carolina when the English FINALLY returned to find the Colony
> Lost.  He
> notes that "... they sounded trumpets and played popular tunes of the
> day...", hoping Colonists would hear and run out on the beach.
>
> LUSTY GALLANT.  The second strain of the march was a popular lute
> tune of
> the day and had words written to extol the virtues of the Virginia
> Lottery.
>
> The third tune in the march -- the 'piece d'resistance' -- is not
> an English
> tune, but it was heard by Sir Francis Drake
> in Florida in 1585.  It is the ONLY tune that I have found so far
> (one year
> of searching) that we KNOW was played in this neck of the words --
> America -- before Jamestown.  It is WILLEAMUS and Dutch.  Very, very
> stirring and except for a couple of pesky notes at the very end of
> it, can
> be played on a Trumpet by a trumpeter who has far better chops than
> I do.
> Given the strong anti-Spanish association of the tune and the
> words, and the
> fact that Capt. John Smith no doubt heard it played everywhere when he
> fought in The Netherlands, it could well have been played at
> Jamestown by
> the unknown trumpeter.
>
> Toward the end of the CD is David Diggs suite of music from the James
> Horner's score for the movie THE NEW WORLD.  Its opening, with
> chirping
> crickets and birds (you had to see the Lehigh percussion section in
> the
> recording session all blowing on these bubbly little bird whistles
> to really
> appreacate it), and the soaring French Horn with lower brass
> anchoring it is
> to-die-for.  James Horner himself after hearing Diggs' work called it
> 'thrilling.'
>
> So....... a nice gift for our English Friends.  Available in two short
> weeks.
>
> Available now, and already has been given to nearly three dozen
> bands, is a
> full band version of the march The Trumpeter of Jamestowne.
> Companies of
> The Jamestowne Society itself have given away nearly 20 copies to
> bands
> around America -- school, civic, military, college.  One person
> even gave it
> to an English school in Oxford, UK.  And I personally gave a copy
> to the
> commandant of the Fire Brigade in Krakow, Poland.  I don't keep up
> with when
> and where it will be perfomed but have been told that the
> Charolttesville
> High School Band will do it this spring, and The Stonewall Brigade
> Band will
> make it part of their Jamestown concert in early summer.
>
> Anybody out there reading  this -- not just the group going to
> England --
> can be a part of the sharing.  It costs you nothing.  Just pick a
> worthy
> band, talk to the director to ascertain his/her interest in playing
> the
> march, send me his/her name, the name of the band and your mailing
> address.
> I make a nice dedicatory cover sheet, bind the march, send it to
> you, and
> you create a "press event" and present it to the band.  You
> responsibility
> is the generate pulicity for the greater glory of Jamestown.
>
> Randy Cabell
> The (21st Century) Trumpeter of Jamestowne
>

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