However it was after the Battle of Gettysburg that Gilmore’s biggest hit was written: “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”. Over the course of his life, Gilmore wrote several marches songs (often under the pseudonym Louis Lambert) including “Good News From Home”, “We Are Coming Father Abraham”, “Seeing Nellie Home”, 22nd Regiment March”, “Sad News From Home”, “The Everlasting Polka”, “Music Fills My Soul With Sadness” and the definitive performance of Henry C. Apwas the date of the first performance by the Gilmore Band. The ensemble was the model for what would become the modern concert band. Reorganizing the Boston Brigade Band in 1858, Gilmore founded Patrick Gilmore’s Band, which featured 2 woodwinds to each brass instrument. He married Ellen O’Neill in 1858 and the next year returned to Boston. With the Salem band, Gilmore performed for the inauguration of President James Buchanan (the first of 8 presidential inaugurations he participated in). .
He became famous as a cornet soloist and joined the Salem Brigade Band in 1853, which at the time was regarded as the best in America.
He became the leader of the Boston Brigade Band and then the Charlestown Band. Flourishing as a musician, Gilmore left Ireland for Boston in 1848. Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was born outside Dublin on December 25, 1829, and from an infant was raised in Ballygar, Co Galway. He developed a love of music learning to play fife and drum and later studied it in detail in Athlone, Co Westmeath.Īfter accompanying his father to a protest rally against the British rule in Athlone, Ireland as a member of the Ballygar Fife and Drum Band, Gilmore became enamored with the discipline, and was introduced to the great bandleader, Patrick Keating, who taught him classical music and trumpets.
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