The uplifting sound of brass will once again fill the air this summer as Brass Band Week 2025 returns—and South Yorkshire is proudly joining the national celebration. The week - which began on 5 and ...

The culmination of the brass band season is fast approaching as the UK's top ensembles prepare to compete in two prestigious finals this September and October. Bands from across the country will go ...

A Cumbrian training brass band earned second place in a contest held last month. Burneside Brass Training Band, which ...

Hundreds of brass band members marched and played through a village's streets to battle for silverware at a competition's 100th edition. The West of England Bandsmen's Festival, also known as the ...

Early brass bands also embraced new instrument designs adopted by their military counterparts or introduced by regimental and ex-regimental performers. The keyed bugle, patented by an Irish militia ...

The production of Brassed Off has been transplanted from Yorkshire to Fife ...

The stereotype that brass bands are “working class” and only from Yorkshire has been challenged after figures revealed that the Government spent seven times more on opera than brass bands in recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...