They're not just a band - they're a brass band. A British brass band, to be exact. And they're the only one in Lancaster. The Lancaster British Brass Band will perform at First United Methodist Church ...

While wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, O'Keeffe points out that the 15th Regiment of Foot had already organized a bugles-only band by 1818 and that numerous ...

Durham Brass Festival's twentieth edition comes to a close this weekend.

They sit and wait. And then, when they ve counted out the correct number of measures and the moment arrives, they add the oomph and the gusto and the color to the music. And then they sit and wait ...

Julie Hoggarth, Director of Drum and Brass, a Cumbria-based community music organisation, wonders if we are asking the wrong ...

Old Crown Brass Band is celebrating its 10th anniversary Sunday with a gala where the group will perform highlights of its decade together. The nonprofit, volunteer band is a 32-piece ensemble of ...

Back in 1998, with the ink on his master’s degree from Washington State University still wet, Jim Phillips joined the Spokane British Brass Band. He played trumpet with them — as principal soloist, in ...

As a little boy in World War II England, Edmund Fry, 85, remembers one particular Christmas Day when he woke up to the gift of an orange he could share with his twin brother. “That was like receiving ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A free concert will be kicking off the summer with a brass band in the traditional British style. We spoke with the band’s director Tim McMillin this morning to get the ...

Houston Brass Band, led by Houston Symphony trumpeter Robert Walp, preforms a lively and entertaining program of British brass band music. The band is a member of the Hobby Center’s Uniquely Houston® ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought, new research reveals. The study undermines the idea that brass bands were ...