Hey, my orchestra just played a gig for a "Suffragette Centennial" event in Seattle. The women's suffrage movement overlaps with the Golden Age of the mandolin orchestra, so it should come as no surprise that mandolin groups sometimes provided music for suffrage conventions, rallies, etc.
The event organizer dug out a mandolin orchestra arrangement by Louis Tocaben of Otto Schreiner's "Suffragette March" and we played it for the gig. It's from 1915 so I guess it's public domain now. I had never heard this tune and the organizer says she cannot find any recordings of it. I can post the PDFs here if anyone is interested.
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