The Rochester Park Band: Entertaining Rochester for Decades! In-Person
Join local historian and enthusiast Lisa Kleman for a special event showcasing a rich piece of Rochester history: The Rochester Park Band!
"In 1904, Theodore Dossenbach, my great-grandfather and the child of poor German immigrants, founded the Rochester Park Band. It was a grand moment for our fair city of Rochester, NY, because the Rochester Park Band was the first municipally-funded band in the state, and one of the first in the country. The early 20th-century was a time before most people experienced recorded sound, and so all music was live, and all events had music. Music brought the people together! The Rochester Park Band played for decades, events large and small, in Rochester and surrounding towns and cities. Through good times and bad, peace times and times of war — the Park Band was there."
Please register!
- Date:
- Tuesday, October 6, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Parma - Meeting Room
- Library:
- Parma Public Library
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors
- Categories:
- Genealogy History Lecture/Presentation Local History Music