Before downloads, before CD’s and records, music was played live only. So what kind of music was played in the years around the Revolutionary War, and who played it? Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee talks with journalist Randy Walker about his Cardinal 250 article on music during the Revolution.
See also:
“The music of the Revolution was played by both the founders and enslaved musicians.“
“Fife and drum signals served as ‘instant messaging on the battlefield’”
Here’s the instrument Randy talks about: 
Our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast on the legend of Susanna Bolling, a 16-year-old from modern-day Hopewell who supposedly rode overnight to save Lafayette from being captured
- Podcast with historian Garrett Channell on “forgotten founder” Andrew Lewis.
- Podcast with Tom Vaughan of the Overmountain Men Trail Association.
- Podcast with Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about his county’s re-enactment of the historic Essex Resolutions.
- Podcast with descendants of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the war (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
