Members of Flowers Band celebrate their win on stage at the Bruckner Haus, Linz, along with Swiss composer Oliver Waespi ...

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 ...

Buckingham Palace’s brass band played iconic England anthem “Three Lions” ahead of the Euro 2024 semi-final clash with the Netherlands on Wednesday, 10 July. “Wishing the best of luck to England in ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, nearly every coal mine in the U.K. had a brass band. They were intended to keep workers out of trouble, and were a... Britain's Brass Bands: A Working-Class Tradition ...

The Lancaster British Brass Band has been going strong since it began in 2005. Now, with a new conductor - who's British, by the way - at the helm the band is moving in a new direction. Expect to hear ...

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 ...

MUSICIANS from across Gippsland will pay tribute to fallen Australian soldiers buried in France and visit other renowned coal-mining towns in England when they go on tour next year. With more than 125 ...

Government funding for opera has outstripped support for brass bands by a factor of seven in recent years, sparking accusations of "snobbishness" and a "southern and metropolitan bias" in arts funding ...

They have been central to working-class life in mining communities for decades but Britain's colliery brass bands say they are now fighting to survive due to coronavirus restrictions. With Britain ...

The world often feels full of fading traditions, from drive-in movie theaters to the dying art of good old-fashioned letter writing. For the British, add brass bands to that list. Traditional brass ...