Holland Legion Band

The Holland American Legion Band was established in 1920 by the American Legion Willard G. Leenhouts Post No. 6 in Holland, Michigan.

The band is sponsored in part by Holland’s Legion Post, as well as the VFW Post # 2144, Vietnam Veterans of America # 73, and the Disabled American Veterans, as well as the City of Holland, Holland Charter Township, Park Township, Laketown Township, and Fillmore Township.

This is the fifth year the Holland American Legion Band has offered an award to honor our past director, Henry P. Vander Linde, who was the “Leader of the Band” for 40 of the band’s 90 year existence. Read more about our educational outreach.

On July 5th, 2011, the band had a special soloist. Holland native L. William Kuyper, French hornist who recently retired from the New York Philharmonic, performed a solo with the band, as well as an encore quartet with other members of the band. Bill also guest conducted the band in it’s final number of the evening, “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”

In December 2011 the Holland American Legion Band has the honor to travel to Pearl Harbor to participate in the 70th Anniversary of the Attack that brought the United States into WW II.
The band will visit the USS Arizona Memorial, and perform at the Waialua Bandstand, Battleship Misssouri, Pacific Aviation Museum, Tripler Army Medical Center, and at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (“Punchbowl Cemetery.”)