Uniform Hats for Italian feast band

This year we will be celebrating our 45th consecutive year under the incarnation of "Caliendo's Banda Napoletana" in Chicago, Ill. We are one of the few authentic Italian festival bands left in the entire United States, and an independent organization dedicated to preserving the beautiful tradition of Italian symphonic band music.  All of the years playing outdoors in virtually every type of weather in the feasts have definitely taken their toll on the band musicians' uniform hats. Many are wore out so bad they are barely holding together and many musicians simply dont have one. We have endeavored all of these years to maintain the strict Italian feast band tradition both in our music and attire, in fact the style of uniforms replicate the similar bands in Italy and our original Neapolitan band in Chicago, the Strocchia Band that originated in the Taylor St. Little Italy in 1926. Understandably in this day and age it's very expensive to outfit the band with new hats but we are going to try  with this Gofundme effort.  It is important to note we have never required the musicians to have to purchase their own uniforms due to the high cost; owing to the fact the little $ they make playing the feasts here in Chicago barely covers all the time and efforts they devote to help continue this beautiful tradition of the band. Additionally this is a very special year as it's the 125th Anniversary of the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Melrose Park, and the Centennial of the St. Rocco di Simbario feast is rapidly approaching. We pray that we will get the funding necessary to continue on in the proper manner.