Dwain Bond 
Dwain Bond specializes in the history and raw playing style of the piano players of the latter half of the 1800’s who frequented the frontier boom towns of the American West. He presents the true sound of the era by playing on a vintage upright piano and he has engineered it to easily transport, thus bringing the “honky tonk” sound to old west living history events and historic saloons.

He is a featured performer for the Smithsonian affiliate: The Hubbard Museum of the American West in Ruidoso, New Mexico; onstage saloon piano for the annual history pageant The Last Escape of Billy the Kid at Lincoln, New Mexico. Among special events; The Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium, Ruidoso, NM; Frontier Texas, Abilene, TX; Fort Sill, Lawton OK and the National Festival of the West in Scottsdale, Arizona. (source http://www.westernmusic.org/performers.cfm?ID=212)

Contact Information

Contact: Dwain Bond
505 Boatler Road
Big Spring TX 79720


Email: bondo@crcom.net


Dwain Bond is also a Civil War re-enactor as reported in the article titled "Civil War re-enactors relive history" by Emily Baker in the Midland Reporter Telegram 
04/10/2005

From the Texas Youth Commission

Sheffield Drum Corps appears at Fort Stockton

On Saturday, November 4, 2000, the debut performance of the Sheffield Boot Camp Drum Corps was held at Fort Stockton, Texas. Three cadets in full nineteenth-century U.S. Army uniforms performed military music of the 1800s under the direction of Dwain Bond during a celebration of historical Fort Stockton.

The idea for the Drum Corps had come about in September, during the Annual Living History Day at Fort Lancaster State Historical Park, approximately eight miles east of the boot camp. Mr. Bond, who is a musician in the Fort Lancaster Frontier Garrison (the volunteer friends groups which supports Fort Lancaster S.H.P.), contacted Park Manager Richard Grube in search of drummers for the event at Fort Lancaster. Mr. Grube introduced Mr. Bond to Bill Roach, Commandant of Sheffield Boot Camp. In less than a month, the Sheffield Boot Camp Drum Corps was in full swing.

Mr. Bond has been extremely excited about the Drum Corps, and he was especially impressed with the cadets' knowledge of drill and ceremony. This made his job easier. The cadets worked extremely hard in preparation for their debut performance at Fort Stockton, and it showed. Both re-enactors and spectators witnessed their performance. The Drum Corps participated in both the opening and closing flag ceremonies and performed several times during the day.

Participants from Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in San Angelo were so impressed that they invited the Drum Corps to participate at Old Fort Concho.

—Submitted by Barbara Register
(source http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/archive/Journal/jour0301_09.html)






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