Introduction To The Brass Band World

Welcome to my new blog. You are all very welcome in here as I put down in writing my passion for music especially in the world of brass band music. Perhaps for some of you brass band music is boring and soooo last century - like 1940s/50s/60s when you consider at that time it was a 'big deal' to listen to it on the radio or watch it on the somewhat fledgling television sets at that time as well. You could see the brass players performing in the background of a lot of videos right up to the 1980s and then it seemed to lose its appeal after that and then slowly making a comeback again (with no small help from others of course) when the world's best known brass band 'Black Dyke' began performing with pop acts 'The Beautiful South' (Liars Bar song) and 'Peter Gabriel' (1998 film Babe: Pig In The City) and also recording the theme tune to the highly successful British gardening television show 'Groundforce'. It is hard to escape brass band music now because it is very popular amongst film makers as background music in many many hit films and if you enjoy listening to brass music like I do its very often that I will actually listen to the music being played in films rather than watching the actors and actresses delivering their lines. It doesn't even matter if it's a brass band playing or an orchestra if the music is good then it is very much worth listening to in my opinion.

For those of you whom are very much into the brass banding world I welcome you to my blog as I go through my continued journey with it. I will try to do a post each day and see where it all leads me.

Thank you for reading my very first post and I will sign off now with one of my favourite solos. Performed by Peter Roberts - Flowerdale...

Peter Roberts - 'Flowerdale'...