For 125 years brass bands from across Great Britain and Northern Ireland have been competing to take home the Challenge Trophy. Many of the biggest names in the competition are from Yorkshire, so the ...

When QuintEssentially Brass was founded in 2009, its members ranged in age from their 20s to 50s. Now that they are in their ...

When Jim Schutz moved to England for his job with Dow in 2012, he didn’t expect to join a brass band—or start one of his own years later in Michigan. This month, the musical connection he forged ...

Have you been on Frenchmen Street lately and heard the brass band? Remember that big lot on the corner of Frenchmen and Chartres where the brass band used to play every night? It’s gone. In its place ...

The Magnolia City Brass Band. Since its origins in Great Britain in the mid nineteenth century, the British style brass band has become a popular ensemble around the world. The Magnolia City Brass ...

Music is too often among the first subjects to be cut as schools make ever tougher budget decisions - but one Yorkshire school is determined to keep its award-winning brass band. High above Bradford, ...

Brass bands have a long tradition in Wales, with half celebrating a continuous existence of more than a hundred years. The date of formation is often linked with industrial development in the local ...