Friday, Oct. 11, Madison welcomed the Brass Queens and Mama Digtown’s Brass Band to High Noon Saloon. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the Brass Queens are an all-female lead band with sounds inspired ...

Over the past 18 months, Alejandro de los Rios, Jonathan Bachman and Michael Seaman have traced the history of New Orleans brass band music for their film “Brass Roots.” De los Rios and Bachman, both ...

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 — ...

Lively music poured through the streets of Somerville as 33 activist brass bands and their performers used rhythm, melody and dance to bring the community together. A saxophone player for Brass ...

(NOTE: Jonathan Bachman and I are currently in the beginning stages of filming a documentary focused on contemporary New Orleans brass bands, from Dirty Dozen to Rebirth to Soul Rebels and more, we'll ...

On a brisk Friday night in San Luis Obispo, a line of people spills out the front doors of Liquid Gravity brewery, which hit its maximum capacity hours ago. Fans of all ages and walks of life, from ...

“You could have the best rock and roll band playing on stage, and a brass band would come and turn the whole house out. Something about that energy that a brass band brings: we got music for your mind ...

Big Wy's Brass Band is an Austin, Texas-based group known for its mix of traditional New Orleans jazz and original funk music. The band found a welcoming audience in Shreveport, Louisiana, after ...

On a Sunday in April, Cambridge Common reverberated with the discordant honks and trills of a brass band warming up. Musicians arrived at the park with instrument cases strapped to their backs and ...

In the New Orleans of yesteryear, some residents of the Big Easy enjoyed a vital community amenity, the tradition of the social aid and pleasure club. When a resident died, if their family could not ...