PHOTOS: Durning String Band 2010

Posted 12:30 PM, January 1, 2010, by PHL17, Updated at 11:14AM, November 18, 2014

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Founded in 1935 by James A. Durning, the band first marched in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade in 1936 with the theme Musical Troubadours. In 1944, the band was renamed as the “James V. Durning String Band,” in honor of its founder’s son, who was listed as Missing-in-Action during the war.