Roger Webster and Billy Rushworth will join forces with Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band to help raise urgent funds for ...

GRIMETHORPE, England (Reuters Life!) - They sound as loud and confident as the day their mine shut, but 15 years on, the changes are plain - only two members of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band have ever ...

East London's Hackney Colliery Band continue to reinvent the brass band sound for the 21st century with Sharpener. Comprised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphone, marching percussion and ...

A county colliery band won the National Brass Band Championships at London’s Royal Albert Hall - but it was 'probably the quietest winner’s announcement ever' as many of its musicians were at the pub.

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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 ...

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Brassed Off is celebrating its 21st birthday next year and there'll be no better way to celebrate than to watch it projected in the Royal Albert Hall with a live score by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band ...

East London's Hackney Colliery Band continue to reinvent the brass band sound for the 21st century with Sharpener. Comprised of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphone, marching percussion and ...

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 ...