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	What:	The Indianapolis Civil War Roundtable 70th Anniversary Event
	Who:	Musical Entertainment by Steve & Lisa Ball
	When:	Monday April 14, 2025 5:00 to 8:00 P.M.
	Where:	Northside Events & Social Club 2100 E. 71st Street, Indianapolis
On February 8, 1955, Alan Nolan, Harry Grube, and Rudolf “Rudy” Haerle held a founder’s meeting for what would become the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table. That April 12th, its first meeting was held at the Indiana War Memorial in downtown Indianapolis. By that September there were 89 paid members. Seventy years and nearly 700 meetings and presentations later, membership has fluctuated, but today stands at more than 50 members and is growing, bring together all kinds of people with varied American Civil War interests. And since its founding, the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table has made great contributions to Civil War historiography. This month we gather at the Northside Events & Social Club for an evening of self-appreciation. Steve Ball is a musician from Columbus Ohio specializing in the music of the American Civil War, and the music and life of Stephen Foster. Steve has studied the American Civil War since his teens and has devoted the past thirty-five years to studying the music of this era in American history. Steve has done programs for the Ohio Statehouse, the National Civil War Museum, the American Civil War Museum of Ohio, and countless historical societies, genealogical societies, libraries, museums, Civil War Round Tables and other historical venues such as re-enactments or living history programs. He has released two CD's of the music of the Civil War. Steve has been an instructor for Life Long Learning through Central Ohio Technical College. He also provides the music for the annual Springfield Ohio Civil War Symposium and is the narrator for the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Civil War Brass Band. He is the current Department of Ohio Commander of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and a member of the American Battlefield Trust. He has participated in the annual Windham New York Civil War Music Gathering, and the Gettysburg Music Muster at the Gettysburg Military Park visitor center. Lisa and Steve got married in June, 2015. Lisa often joins Steve on upright bass and vocal harmonies. Lisa plays piano, guitar, bass and autoharp and an excellent musician in her own right, and is also very knowledgeable on the history of the music in all presentations. She is the lead vocalist on the Carter Family Program. She is from Grove City Ohio, and began playing piano as a child, and began playing upright bass in 2013. Lisa has six ancestors who served in the Union Army.

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