(1829-1892), an American bandmaster, born near Dublin, Ireland. He went with an English band to Canada in 1847 and soon moved to the United States, becoming conductor of a military band at Salem, Mass. In 1859 he organized the famous Gilmore's Band at Boston, but during the Civil War served in the Union army as bandmaster. There he distinguished himself as a director of a great musical festival at New Orleans, in which many regimental bands participated. After the war, at the National Peace Jubilee in 1869 and the World's Peace Jubilee in 1872, he greatly extended his reputation, at one time conducting an orchestra of one thousand pieces and a chorus of twenty thousand voices. Soon afterward he began a concert tour through America, Canada, Great Britain and Continental Europe, by which he gained universal fame.