Songs of the Revolutionary War
Schedule
Tue, 09 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
4690 Old Grand Ave, Gurnee, IL, United States, Illinois 60031 | Gurnee, IL
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In honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence, we are pleased to present author and musician Kathryn Atwood and her husband John as they present a musical program at the Mother Rudd Home. You may remember Kathryn Atwood from her presentation last year, Women in World War II.
She writes: America's war of independence from Great Britain was fought with both muskets and music. An American chaplain who dabbled in the writing of lyrics claimed that “one good song is worth a dozen proclamations” in stirring patriotic fervor among the colonists. So, broadsides with revolutionary lyrics were sold on the street for a penny. But there were generally no tunes printed with the lyrics; only a directive to sing the lyrics to a tune that would be familiar to the colonists. Since most of those tunes were British, Mother England was being fought with her own melodies!
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