Les Brown Big Band Festival

2014: A Salute to Stumpy Brown

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Commemorative festival buttons
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Stumpy autographing a photo.
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M & J Big Band
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Stumpy being interviewed by MC Kathleen Pavelko.
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Elizabethtown College Jazz Band

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Stumpy receives a Les Brown bubble gum card from MC Kathleen Pavelko of WITF while Denny Brown and her son Swampy Marsh watch.
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Stumpy vs the Les Brown trivia contest winners in a friendly mini trivia game hosted by Kathleen Pavelko.
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The Letters From Home ladies perform Six Jerks in a Jeep with help from audience “volunteers”.
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Stumpy, thoughtfully listening while receiving a Stumpy Brown festival shirt.
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Stumpy receiving a festival shirt.
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Tower City mayor Dan Daub, Stumpy and cousin David Minnich.
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Presentation of the Stumpy Brown Block sign to mark the approximate area in Tower City where Stumpy was born.
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Stumpy reads the citation presented to him from PA Senator David Argall.
Rainbow jazz bow
WV Elementary Rainbow Jazz
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Stumpy with Letters From Home
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Letters From Home
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Jeff “Swampy” Marsh signing Phineas & Ferb items to be placed in the WV Band of Renown museum.

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Pine Grove Middle School Cardinal Jazz Band directed by Matt Schrack
WVHS
Williams Valley Cool Blue
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M & J Big Band
Brooke and Randy
Brooke Unger-Randy Wiscount