There’s something honorable – and just a bit unexpected – in the way that one musical crew from one of America’s most vibrant musical cities has helped resuscitate and revitalize a sound many fans ...

Some Saturday evening after a Tigers game you might wander into Greektown for a bite to eat and hear the sound of brass band music rising above the bouzouki melodies wafting out of Greek eateries.

The Brass Band of Minot will present “Christmas Brass & Bells” Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4 p.m. at Minot State University’s Ann ...

Shakur Brooks has a bass line looping in his head. The eighth-grade trombonist sits on a metal chair in the band room of the Booker T. Washington Middle School for the Arts in West Baltimore, punching ...

Hurricane Katrina had a devastating impact on New Orleans. But Rebirth Brass Band founder Keith Frazier says it didn’t change the music. “We had people settle in Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, all over the ...

Growing up in Tulsa, Greg "Coach" Fallis made it his goal to move to New Orleans and immerse himself in the Crescent City's signature brass band sound. When he got to the Big Easy, though, nothing ...

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 Kelvin Harrison first heard about the inaugural Class Got Brass competition, signing up his middle school brass band to compete was "a no brainer." "It's part of our curriculum. ... It was a walk ...

Earlier this month at the Defend DACA protest in downtown Oakland, Brass Liberation Orchestra marched among the crowd like pied pipers of the resistance, drawing passersby into the procession with ...

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 ...