Jari Villanueva of the Federal City Brass Band

Become a Patron today and received exclusive content long before the public does, plus early access to ticketed events and discounts. Go to www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg   ORIGINAL AIR-DATE September 2, 2020 on Patreon- This was a fun interview! Jari Villanueva is the director of the Federal City Brass Band/ 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. He was kind enough to send me two of their CDs last year for use in our narrative episodes. We'd been trying to coordinate our schedules for about two months now for this interview and finally made it happen. I thought it would be fun to go through the songs I chose for the narratives and, first, explain my thinking behind the choice from an artistic standpoint and then follow it up with Jari giving a history of the song. Turns out, I unwittingly chose songs that were more appropriate than I was aware of, in some cases.  Jari is also "instrumental" in the popular and moving "100 Nights of Taps" here at Gettysburg National Cemetery.    Check out Jari's website www.jvmusic.net