Alliance City Band Stories
Two former Alliance City Band members, Paul Hobe and Ralph Holibaugh, share the history of the Alliance City Band and their reminiscences of the members of the band through a series of blog posts.
The Band began in 1859 with the Haines Family and became a first class ensemble during the early 1900s under the baton of Emil Rinkendorf. The last concert performed by the band was in 1988 and it dissolved in 1991.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
By Paul Hobe Pictures, photographs actually, bridge the time between the instant the shutter was pressed until the moment it is noticed my someone at a later time. I was that someone. The five or six framed photographs of the Alliance City Band were displayed on the...