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SOUTHERN SOLDIER & DIXIE'S LAND

The 2nd South Carolina String Band began around a campfire on a 1989 August night at a living history event held on Boston Harbor’s George’s Island, in Fort Warren, a granite fortress whose construction started in 1833 and was finally completed in 1861, just in time for the American Civil War. Built to protect Boston, during the war it served as a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers and an assortment of civilian political inmates. Over the 35 year arc of our music-performing existence, our absolute favorite venue has always been the campfire. As Confederate reenactors, for our first 10 years ‘in the ranks’, we carried a rifle-musket, camped and marched with the rest of Company I, 2nd SC Volunteer Infantry. Our role was as “simple” infantrymen who, after a day of marching, drilling, and battle reenacting, would then clean up to go and play for 2 or 3 hours for the traditional Saturday evening camp dance, after which we would return to our campfire and comrades to play some more - with the expectation that Sunday morning, we would get up and do it all again (except the dance part). Much as we would have preferred this show to have been in a campfire setting, we hope these lanterns would offer a similar camp ambience. From the beginning, we have always closed our performances with “Dixie’s Land”, the unofficial anthem of the South. For 30 of the past 35 years - since first learning “Southern Soldier” in 1993-94 - we have paired the two. This, our last show, in front of probably our best ever audience, may have been the best of them all.