Sarah is a mystery. I have not had the chance to interview her, as she refuses my questions at every turn. Dorothy seems to be the only member of the band who knows her and therefore knew when she joined. Unfortunately Dorothy is getting more and more forgetful these days and every time I ask her about Sarah, she says she simply cannot remember.
I have managed to piece together some information regarding the band’s baton twirler, from what the other members have said. None of the CMB members know when she joined, but the more I dig the more I am convinced that Dotty recruits a child and calls her Sarah so that the band appears youthful, I would hazard a guess that once the child has grown 'too old' to be a baton twirler they are trained to play an instrument and revert back to their actual name. I firmly believe that Annie Greenberg started as a 'Sarah Somaton'.
This might be the reason that the band claim to have knowledge about her, whether I am right is actually irrelevant, she is an amazing baton twirler and the Chinewrde Marching Band are lucky to have her.
Excerpt taken from Godfrey Yammertein's 'A profile of a Great British Marching Band', published May 2011
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