Circleville Cadet Band
Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2 p.m.
Circleville, Ohio—
The Ted Lewis Museum will present a FREE concert Circleville Cadet Band Concert on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. The concert will be held at The Amphitheater at the Pickaway Agriculture & Event Center, 415 Lancaster Pike, Circleville, Ohio. For more information visit www.tedlewismuseum.org or call 740-477-3630. (In case of rain, the concert will be moved to Logan Elm School Auditorium, 9511 Tarlton Rd., Circleville).
German-American musician Oscar Ameringer came to Circleville to form a boy’s band in 1900. Before the proliferation of music education in the schools, cadet bands provided musical training for budding young musicians. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Friedman, proprietors of Friedman’s Bazaar, the leading local women’s clothing store, enrolled their two eldest sons Edgar and Theodore in the cadet band. Ten-year-old Ted started on the E-flat clarinet because his fingers were too short for a regular B-flat clarinet. Prof. Ameringer recalled years later, “Theodore couldn’t stay away from music.”
Circleville will once again come alive with patriotic marches, stirring overtures of Franz von Suppé, immortal folk songs of Stephen Foster, and other classics as The Ted Lewis Museum presents a concert in the beautiful Pickaway Agriculture & Event Center Amphitheater. Featuring selections from newly discovered 1900-01 Circleville Cadet Band programs that young Ted performed, this special concert will be performed by 20 of Central Ohio’s finest uniformed musicians under the direction of Joseph N. Rubin. With special guests the Times Past Vintage Dancers demonstrating the latest dances of 1900, don’t miss this FREE trip back to the golden age of the concert band.
Circleville Cadet Band Concert is funded in part through generous grants from The Miriam Ruggles Adkins Foundation, The Ohio Arts Council and The Savings Bank.
The Ted Lewis Museum is dedicated to celebrating the life and preserving the legacy of Circleville’s own Ted Lewis by making everybody happy through education and entertainment. Founded in 1977 by Lewis’ widow, Adah Becker Lewis, the museum pays tribute to one of Ohio’s greatest citizens and one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Admission to the newly renovated museum is free and it is open Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. March-December. For more information visit www.tedlewismuseum.org
