Brass band music had been introduced to the region in 1880s by European missionaries and military groups.
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The Land of the Long White Cloud "Aotearoa" is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.
Backworth Colliery Band are a traditional British Brass Band based in Backworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
The musicians of Basin Street Records represent a variety of styles of music, although most play some variety of jazz such as: Dixieland/New Orleans jazz, Latin jazz, New Orleans brass band music, as well as contemporary and modern jazz.
The instrument was first popularized by euphonium virtuoso Harry Whittier with the famous Patrick Gilmore band starting in 1888; the John Philip Sousa band added the instrument the following year Bone Paull and Morris, p. 12, with other US brass bands following the example.
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass Band/Romani brass band (not to be confused with Romanian) from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini.
The orphanage opened during Easter 1927, with an opening march by donor members taking three hours to travel from Harrogate railway station, accompanied by four brass bands.
Known for the very elaborate and beautiful costumes of its members, the core group gathers in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans each Mardi Gras morning, with the Storyville Stompers brass band providing the music.
Toddington Town Band, is an English brass band with over one hundred and fifty years of history.
Viv Fisher (born 1952) is an ex-BBC audio engineer and multivocalist who performed all parts of the Brass band used in the title sequence of the BBC's 1985 TV series, Blott on the Landscape.
Wingates Band is a brass band based in Wingates, a settlement near the town of Westhoughton in north-west England.
After the royal address, officials performed the metal drum and the Trump of Farang, the Three Forces of Military paid respect, and the brass band performed Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami.
Having been created by Bill some years prior, this brass band, consisting of high school brass students, had the opportunity of performing in venues such as Shea Stadium and West Point.
He has also done some extraordinary work for Brass bands in the UK, not least arranging the entire score of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Beethoven's 3rd symphony for brass band, as well as frequently conducting bands in Wales and Sweden (Gothenburg).
In previous years entertainment has included Beth Rowley, The Hot 8 Brass Band,DJ Derek, Gabby Young and the Other Animals, Sheelanagig, The Blessing and Phantom Limb,Let's Tea Party, Kid Carpet, Nuala and the Alchemy Quartet, The She Creatures, Natty, Barry Adamson
Despite the lack of preparations, a cricket match was hastily arranged, which was attended by a good number of spectators, a brass band and Sir George Arthur, the Governor of Upper Canada.
In 1895 he heard the 'Ton Pentre Temperance' brass band from the Rhondda Valley at the opening of the Colliery Library in Gelli and offered to provide financial assistance for them resulting in the band’s change of name to ‘The Cory Band’.
His major works include: Meditation - The Light of the World; Symphony of Thanksgiving, written for the International Staff Band of The Salvation Army in 1951 for their Diamond Jubilee Celebration; and Rhapsody In Brass, selected for the 1949 British Open Brass Band Championships at Belle Vue.
The scene had the Aslin designed band stand with a brass band playing whilst Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson spoke.
In 2004 he was the featured soloist in Grimethorpe Colliery Band's recording "History of Brass Band Music - The Salvation Army Connection" in Eric Leidzen's Concertino for Trombone and Band.
Grimethorpe is known for its past as a mining village, its brass band, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and was used as the location for the film Brassed Off - a black comedy which tells the plight of the village and the effect on its band.
He took over the leadership of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band in 1971 until his death in 1984, and during his tenure the group toured the United States repeatedly and appeared in Berlin in 1980.
Riders on Icelandic horses often precede the brass band and flagbearers from the Icelandic scout movement traditionally follow the brass band.
Introduced by Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band into the contemporary New Orleans brass band repertory, it has become a standard, recorded by the Treme Brass Band, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and many others.
The Licentiate Diploma in Brass Band Adjudication (LDDBA) is awarded by the University of Salford.
His drumming credits include work with Ever Ready Brass Band (now Reg Vardy Band), Toy Dolls, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees and Blackmore's Night.
In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.
The various styles include: cumbias, the Colombian dance music; a brass band; an orquestra, of Mayan culture; Peruvian Susana Baca singing a cappella; El General's funky hip-hop; and Mason Daring's bass marimba and Spanish guitar-driven score.
The Bollywood Brass Band (UK), Dee Nasty (France), Jaïpur Kawa Brass Band (India), and Hot 8 Brass Band (New Orleans) are some of the artists who performed during the 2006 session.
The Eureka Brass Band had been founded in 1920, by trumpeter Willie Wilson, and its early members included clarinetists Willie Parker, John Casimir, and George Lewis.
His legacy continues today as the River City Brass Band (now River City Brass) plays nationally and internationally under the direction of conductor and artistic director, James Gourlay, an internationally renowned tuba player and former conductor of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Sounding Brass, a pioneer phone-in programme on BBC Radio 2 in which a live brass band played listeners' requests
The City of Wolverhampton Brass Band was formed in 1972 and initially based at Wolverhampton Grammar School, in Wolverhampton, UK.
The British composer Nigel Clarke has also written a large scale work for Brass Band (2012) inspired by the film and is also entitled When Worlds Collide.
In 1906 it achieved the "double" by winning the British Open brass band championships and the British National championships (the latter staged at the Crystal Palace in London) in the same year.