DeKalb Municipal Band
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For over 160 years, the DeKalb Municipal Band has played on. It has become known as the longest continuous playing band in Illinois. Celebrating its 160th milestone in 2014, the band was originally formed in 1854 when a group of musicians returned to DeKalb from the California Gold Rush after an unsuccessful attempt to strike it rich. The band has survived several wars and conflicts, lack of funding, and economic depressions, but throughout this, not a lack of support from the community. Through good times and bad, the band plays on.
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