| May 19, 2007 - Echo Taps initiative aims to mobilize players for US Armed Forces Day | April 7, 2007 | |||||
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Regular ITG News and ITG Journal readers will be well aware of Bugles Across America (BAA), a voluntary organization which aims to make live buglers available to play Taps for US military funerals. Now Echo Taps, the "Big BAA Project for 2007", has launched, and interested players are urged to visit the Echo Taps website and sign up as soon as possible. The Echo Taps site tells us "On May 19, 2007 (Armed Forces Day) brass players from around the world will conduct an EchoTaps event at all National Cemeteries, State Veterans Cemeteries, and American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries overseas. Individuals, schools, and organizations are invited to be part of this unique tribute as performers or support volunteers." The Echo Taps idea is to play a cascading version of Taps - that is, one in which the first bugle is followed or echoed by the next, then the next - and so on. The Echo Taps site describes a previous event in 2005: "In May of 2005 an event called EchoTaps was performed in upstate New York in which 674 brass players from 30 states lined the roadways between the Woodlawn National Cemetery and the Bath National Cemetery, a distance of 42.2 miles, to play a cascading rendition of ‘Taps’ for our veterans." The 2007 event aims to repeat the cascading idea, but on a much larger scale. Echo Taps is an initiative of the Finger Lakes Chapter of Bugles Across America. At the Echo Taps site, visitors will find more information, background, sign-up forms, instructions for participants and much more besides. If interested, please click the graphic or the link to visit the site now. Links: Note:
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