First, here's the 1978 Santa Clara Vanguard with their guard dancing around a maypole.
![](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/20/f2/d6/20f2d666930d5ff2ae2d847767159a22.jpg)
Insert joke about them wearing red, playing Soviet-era music (Aram Khachaturian's "Gopak"), and being the vanguard of the protelariat here.*
Next, the 1979 Schaumberg Guardsmen doing their version of a maypole dance, this time to something more in tune with the tradition, "Greensleeves." First, two color photos.
![](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/62/10/e76210f07493d6ecdf81f85e442cdc6d.jpg)
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFv-x0WAdlU/maxresdefault.jpg)
Now, another, larger photo.
![](http://dci271.dci.org/images/news/2014/05_01_2014_79guardsmen_620x370.jpg)
With that, I wish you all a happy May Day!
*The Vanguard actually was a working-class organization at the time, so the joke is more apt than one might think. The ex-girlfriend I mention here from time to time marched in them from 1977-1979--in fact, she may be in the photo--came from a working-class family and described how most of her fellow corps members shared her background.
I have 2015's May Day greetings up as A drum corps maypole in motion for May Day. That entry includes a video of the 1979 Guardsmen circling a maypole as part of the finale of their show.
ReplyDeleteFor 2016, today's post is A big top drum corps maypole for May Day featuring the 1981 Bridgemen in both a photo and a video.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these corps returned in Drum corps maypoles from 1978 for a drum corps May Day.
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