Alicia Potter

As a young boy growing up in Ireland, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore loved music. But he did not just like quiet melodies; he loved his music as loud as humanly possible! When he moved to Boston and became a dedicated bandleader, he used his booming music to keep up the spirits of tired soldiers during the brutal years of the Civil War. When the fighting finally ended, Patrick had a monumentally grand idea. He decided to create the absolute biggest, boldest, and loudest concert the entire world had ever witnessed. You will join the massive celebration as he gathers twelve booming cannons, forty ringing church bells, one thousand musicians, and ten thousand singers to perform together. Step right into the vibrant National Peace Jubilee of 1869 and experience the triumphant, booming joy of bringing a fractured nation back together through song.