Each Boston College instrumentalist from the Marching Band will receive a $500 scholarship at the completion of the season. Marching Band members who also participate in the Pep Band are eligible for ...

The Napoleonic wars created unprecedented demand for brass and other musical instruments. As well as tracking down individual musicians and bands, O’Keeffe investigated the circulation of ...

Brass bands have a long tradition in ... The provision of funding from the National Lottery meant that many bands were able to purchase new instruments. While it is unfortunate that this valuable ...

But a Cambridge University academic has put a muffler in that claim with a study that claims they were actually started by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars. Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had ...

Due to the massive success and unexpected engagement of the 2023 battle of the bands poll — which Lee County High School won ...

For the marching band members, these pivotal moments inspire them to mingle music into their lives after graduation. Raised in a family of musicians, Morgan State University graduate Malik Freeman ...

The story of the origins of Britain's brass bands needs to be rewritten in the ... It was previously believed the brass instrument groups began as a civilian and exclusively northern creation ...

15, 2019 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019 12:01 a.m. Band camps are over and football season has begun. That means area high school marching bands are ready to show off their routines for the ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had ...