Sunday, 28 June 2020

Follow the Band

2001: Centenary of School Orchestras (Design - A Booth)
Leading out with a tuba and a drum major
1982: Centenary Salvation Army (Design - Theo Dimson)
followed by a tambourine.  The stamp shows an urban street scene of the 1880s.
1997: 175th Anniversary Cologne Carnival (Design - Harry Scheuner)
Cologne Carnival is one of Europe's biggest and costumes are essential often with wigs and makeup.  Music is as an integral part with lots of  carnival bands and singalongs. It is described as being six crazy days.
1978: Fairytales (Design - Günter Jacki)
 But whatever you do be careful who you follow as the Pied Piper of Hamelin plays his mesmerising tune.
Pan Pipes in York

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - anniversaries - See It On A Postcard


4 comments:

Mail Adventures said...

Cheerful!

That Hamelin story scared me as a child...

FinnBadger said...

I was surprised to see two of our merry band celebrating musical anniversaries today.

Great selection of stamps.

violet s said...

That DDR stamp is great - i can almost feel the movement as they dance along behind the Pied Piper!
Never seen the Sally Ann stamp before - they seem a bit humourless (as would be expected, I guess!)

Bob Scotney said...

fine selection and the Norway stamps reminded me of bands I heard there.