The Old Arizona Brass Band held a rehearsal last Wednesday at ... specializes in music from roughly the Civil War to 1912, using the same style of instruments and dressing in historical garb.

The Federal City Brass Band Memorial Day Concert is set for May 24 at 7 p.m. on the steps of The Maryland Theatre, 21 S.

Green – who made the brass band documentary Banding: Love, Spit And Valve Oil for BBC Radio 4 – has long immersed himself in the culture of colliery community brass bands. In KELI – which is set in ...

Decoration Day, has its origins in the Civil War (1861-1865) and was a time to honor the Union soldiers who died. Now the national holiday honors all military members who died in service to the United ...

Some have been standing there for over an hour. The band that’s worth the wait? Brass Mash. Aptly named, Brass Mash is a local SLO County brass-instrument-based mash-up band. “It’s not a ...

History Seekers Buried for 150 Years: Civil War Relics and Brass Knuckles Found Posted: April 23, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 While metal detecting in the deep woods back in 2019, treasure ...

A Scottish band is to have one of its songs housed in the first museum dedicated exclusively to the Spanish Civil War. The Tenementals' track "A Passion Flower’s Lament" is to be included in ...

As hard as it might be to imagine today, watching red-cheeked toddlers eat soft pretzels while the brass band oom-pah ... During the Civil War, most tended to be anti-slavery and pro-Union.

The Schuylkill County Cavalry and the Pottsville Brass Band also served. James Nagle, who would become a general in the Civil War, was a captain in the Mexican War. Wynkoop, who was called ...

There was a civilian parade in celebration of the war effort. We were on duty as ... and we used to give concerts. Course, the brass band I played as well. We also had a small dance band, all ...

Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the ...

This October marks the one hundredth anniversary of the re-internments of five young men from County Clare who were executed by the Irish Free State for their part in anti-Treaty activities during the ...