Tones associated with Remembrance Day will be ringing throughout the city on Thursday.

17 Wing's band is well-known in Winnipeg, often playing at Remembrance Day services leading up to the day, and at the RBC Convention Centre on the day of. This year Master Corporal Jamie Henderson with the Royal Canadian Air Force Band says their in-person services will be limited to 17 Wing members. Buglers and a bagpiper will play at other locations across the city, including at Winnipeg's veterans care home, Deer Lodge.

"I feel like we are a bridge between the public who is remembering and the troops themselves who may be remembering comrades they may have lost. We can act as that bridge to make sure that we can facilitate remembrance for everyone," Henderson says.

Henderson says this day holds a special meaning for him.

"I come from a long line of military musicians personally. My great grandfather was a clarinetist and saxophonist in the British Army 80-100 years ago. It is nice that we can still get out there and do out bit to remember people who have passed for us."

Sergeant Marie-Pier LaFlamme will be the bugler at 17 Wing this year. 

"Music is something very special. Like smell, it gives a different perspective on things and situations and I think 'The Last Post' is one of those things. When you hear it, they remember so many other situations that are related to that sound."

Many things go through LaFlamme's mind in the moments between her taking a breath and playing the first note of "The Last Post".

"When my nerves get in the way of doing that I remember who I am doing it for," she says. "This is usually my way of keeping my breath calm and my nerves down is remembering why I am doing it and who I am doing it for."

She has been bugling for 14 years. She says playing "The Last Post" on her trumpet is her proudest moment.

This year her son told her "the poppy is something you wear in order to say thank you to all the soldiers without using your words," a statement that rang true for the musician.

"It made me have this comparison that music in a ceremony is like a poppy on a uniform. It is something that is there; it is a symbol. It is something that is there without having to speak."