BIO: Patrick Sarsfield GILMORE (1829-92) was a native of Co. Galway. He left Ireland in 1848 during the Great Potato Famine, sailing along with the regiment band for which he played the cornet. He became leader of the Boston Brigade Band, later known as the famous Gilmore's Band. Gilmore was bandmaster of the 24th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War, and in 1863, he revamped all MA's militia bands. After the war he became of of the world's most famous bandleaders. His signature was the "monster band" that grew to include a chorus of thousands accompanied by hundreds of instruments. In 1869, at the National Peace Jubilee in Boston he organized an extravaganza performance that included more than 10,000 participants, firing cannons, ringing church bells, and a hundred firemen beating anvils in Giuseppe Verdi's "Anvil Chorus." In 1872 he assumed leadership of the 22nd New York Regiment Band. For the next 20 years they performed across the US and Europe and remai! ned extremely popular right up to Gilmore's death in 1892.