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.

A tradition dating back more than 200 years takes over towns across Greater Manchester.

It’s been 33 years since the last Prom dedicated to brass band music, while Gavin Higgins’ concerto for Brass band and orchestra is the first Proms commission of its kind. It’s time to forget that ...

The Houston Brass Band is the Bayou City's very own British-style brass band, modeled on a tradition that goes back centuries to the coal mines and pubs across the pond. In this sound portrait, HBB ...

For over seventy-five years, the brass band tradition existed largely unchanged until this forward looking, bebop influenced ensemble completely changed both the style and the repertoire of brass band ...

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 ...

March is Music In Our Schools Month, an annual celebration created by the National Association for Music Education. But for one "Big Red One" Soldier, it is also an opportunity to bring his passion ...

One of the most recognizable and respected names in the storied history of New Orleans brass band music is “Onward.” Founded “some time before 1877” according to one source, the Onward Brass Band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up in Tulsa, Greg "Coach" Fallis made it his goal to move to New Orleans and immerse himself in the Crescent City's ...

They’ve played at international festivals, in nightclubs and on a boat in the New York harbor. In one unusual gig, they played on the L train in Chicago. This local band has even been on the radio — ...

If you did not have the opportunity to ‘dance’ to the music of the Morrisville Brass Band, you missed history in the making! This historical band no longer exists and has faded away as the band ...

Brass bands often bring New Orleans to mind. But some 1,000 miles away from southeast Louisiana, there's a different kind of brass band at work: the No BS! Brass Band of Richmond, Va. Since the late ...