Festivals Around The World
One festival featuring brass bands is the Tarragona international dixieland festival, in Catalonia, Spain. The organisation programs not only dixieland brass bands but also ethnic or world music brass bands from over the world, including the Dirty Dozen Brass Band from the USA, Boban Marković Orkestar from Serbia, the Jaipur Kawa Brass Band from India and Taraf Goulamas from Occitania France.
In the United States the Great American Brass Band Festival has been held annually in Danville, Kentucky for the past 18 years. This event, held in early June, attracts brass band lovers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The Vintage Band Festival vintagebandfestival.com occurs in Northfield, Minnesota every three years, with the next one scheduled for August 1-4 2013.
The North American Brass Band Association sponsors an annual convention that provides member bands with the opportunity to compete in a contest format similar to those conducted in the United Kingdom and Europe.
In Boston, and Seattle a series of festivals called HONK! bring together Street Brass Bands (and other related ensembles) from the United States and Canada, and some bands from other parts of the world. The groups presented include Balkan Brass Bands, New Orleans brass bands, Political Action Bands, Klezmer, and "DIY" Alternative / Radical Community Bands.
- Soul Rebels Brass Band
- Bestwood Welfare Black Diamonds Brass Band
- Black Dyke Mills Band
- Brass Band Buizingen
- Brass quintet
- Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band
- Foden's Band
- Grimethorpe Colliery Band
- The Harrogate Band
- International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
- Landrake Band
- Leyland Band
- Maidenhead Citadel Band of the Salvation Army
- Marching band
- Reg Vardy Band
- North York Temple Band of The Salvation Army http://nytband.com/
- The Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery - The NZ Artillery Band
- Tapton Youth Brass Band
- Music of Tonga
- Music of Samoa
- Music of Polynesia
- Māori music
- Buraban
- Chalk Farm Band of the Salvation Army
- The City of Wolverhampton Brass Band
- Lanner and District Silver Band
- Banda Music
- Onchan Silver Band
- Helston Town Band
- Vena Mills Band
- Hungry March Band
- HONK!
- Brass Instruments
- Eastern Iowa Brass Band
- Tarragona international dixieland festival in Catalonia, Spain.
- Central Park Brass
- Flowers Brass Band
- Triangle Brass Band
- Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
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