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Redlands Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps
Item
Title
Redlands Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps
Identifier
2022.006.085
Type
image
Description
The Redlands Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps, founded by drummer Leopoldo Gonzalez and bugler Manuel Manzanales, poses in front of the Manzano family home on Tribune Street in the late 1920s. Tom Manzano, shown in back holding the flag, recalled that his parents let the group drill on their property. Other musicians in the group were Joe Delgado, Sam and Nick Coyazo, and members of the Manzano family. Often accompanied by a 60-piece boys marching band, the group performed and competed in venues across Southern California. Sponsored by the Mexican American social clubs El Junto Patriotico and the Alianza Hispano Americana, the corps played popular and patriotic sons from the United States and Mexico. According to cornet player Howard "Joe" Herrera (fourth from left), the group would be featured frequently at Mexican celebrations like Dos de Abril and Cinco de Mayo. He recalled,. "We would come marching in playing Zacatecas or some other song like that and people would go crazy."
Subject
Community life in Redlands
Entertainment and Leisure Activities
Instrumental Bands
Music
Cultural Celebrations
Cinco de Mayo
Spatial Coverage
Redlands (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1920s
Creator
unknown
Date
1920s
Contributor
Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Margaret Castro.
Format
.tif
Language
English
Rights
Bibliographic Citation
Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, 28.
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 The Redlands Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps, in the late 1920s |
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 The Mexican Drum and Bugel Corps |
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