Durham Brass Festival

Durham Brass Festival is back 13-20 July 2025! A brasstastic programme of events.

This page is primarily for fans and is not the official means for contacting BRASS - if you need to get in touch please email [email protected]

Writer and broadcaster, Stuart Maconie, will host Loose Ends from Redhills Durham on Wednesday 16th July. In an episode ...
19/06/2025

Writer and broadcaster, Stuart Maconie, will host Loose Ends from Redhills Durham on Wednesday 16th July.

In an episode celebrating music, comedy, and entertainment from and about the North East, this special Durham Brass Festival programme will be recorded in front of a live audience, from the heart of the festival.

Confirmed guests include Paula Hawkins (author of ‘The Girl on the Train’), Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate and presenting “Firm As A Rock We Stand” in a sold out at Redhills as part of the Festival with LYR and Easington Colliery Brass on 18 July) and Ria Lina (one of The Evening Standard’s ‘Hottest Comedians You Should Be Watching Now’ having guested on shows including Have I Got News For You and QI).

Tickets can be bought at:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/brass/durham-brass-hosts-bbc-radio-4s-loose-ends/

Our Durham Brass Bashes return across County Durham this July!Experience the atmosphere of Durham Brass Festival with ev...
18/06/2025

Our Durham Brass Bashes return across County Durham this July!

Experience the atmosphere of Durham Brass Festival with events taking place between Monday 14 July and Friday 18 July.

Join our street bands for performances on the below dates:

🔹 Hardwick Park - Monday 14 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 The Story - Monday 14 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 Hackworth Park, Shildon - Tuesday 15 July 6pm-9pm
🔹 The Witham, Barnard Castle - Tuesday 15 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 Willington Town Park- Wednesday 16 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 Market Place, Spennymoor - Wednesday 16 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 Trimdon Community College - Thursday 17 July 6pm-9pm
🔹 Blackhill and Consett Park - Thursday 17 July 6pm-8pm
🔹 Town Park, Newton Aycliffe - Friday 18 July 6pm-9pm
🔹 North Terrace, Seaham - Friday 18 July 6pm-9pm

Full information about line-ups for each Brass Bash event can be found at:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/events/

Only one month to go until Durham Brass Festival 2025!Who is joining us in July?📅 13-20 July 2025More information about ...
13/06/2025

Only one month to go until Durham Brass Festival 2025!

Who is joining us in July?

📅 13-20 July 2025

More information about the different events taking place can be found:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/events/

🎷Our confirmed Street Bands for this year at Durham Brass Festival!Always Drinking Marching Band : an artistic productio...
12/06/2025

🎷Our confirmed Street Bands for this year at Durham Brass Festival!

Always Drinking Marching Band : an artistic production company specialising in music, theatre and clowning.

Brazen Brass Band : a collection of the UK's finest female brass and percussion players.

Das Brass : a virtuosic ensemble of jazz maestros who thrive on bringing the party to life.

Diddy Sweg: uniting all beings from all corners of the galaxy through the universal language of music.

John Birks Orchestra: a sonic laboratory where hip hop, funk, jazz, Latin rhythms, and Brazilian choro blend into a fresh, explosive sound.

Mr Wilson's Second Liners : an anarchic, street extravaganza, bursting with colour and sound, rallying impromptu raves on street corners and rousing audiences young and old into a joyful frenzy.

New York Brass Band: North Yorkshire's only contemporary New Orleans inspired Brass Band.

Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band : an esteemed ensemble of exceptionally skilled musicians hailing from the culturally rich state of Rajasthan, India.

Yorky Pud Street Band: a heaping of jazz, a dash of oom-pah, stir in some mash-ups, and give it a New York subway busking flair.

Young Pilgrims: a jazz influenced, rock induced, nine-piece brass band, known for intense live performances.

More announcements on our street bands to come!

A host of fantastic new additions have recently been announced to the already spectacular lineup for this year’s Durham ...
12/06/2025

A host of fantastic new additions have recently been announced to the already spectacular lineup for this year’s Durham Brass Festival.

📅 13-20 July 2025

This includes:

• A special edition of Radio 4’s Loose Ends programme, hosted by Stuart Maconie and featuring Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins, and comedian Ria Lina, at Redhills on 16 July.

• A Tea Dance at Bishop Auckland Town Hall on 13 July, featuring Tyne Valley Big Band

• Pet Snake supporting Bill Ryder-Jones at Gala Durham on 15 July

• The line-up of acts that will be performing at Party in the Park at Wharton Park on 19 July, and at Streets of Brass in Durham City on 19 and 20 July

• Brass Boat Cruises along the River Wear through Durham City, with a performing street band, on 19 and 20 July.

More information can be found:
https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/33143/News-Durham-Brass-Festival-2025-new-acts-announced

🎷 Three of our ticketed events for this year's Durham Brass Festival have now SOLD OUT! Simon Armitage and LYR on Frida...
11/06/2025

🎷 Three of our ticketed events for this year's Durham Brass Festival have now SOLD OUT! Simon Armitage and LYR on Friday 18 July, The NETOA Wurlitzer on Saturday 19 July and the BRASS Tea Dance on Sunday 13 July are all sold out.

Don't miss out on tickets for this year's other performances at:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/events/

There are only a few tickets remaining for Barry Hyde's performance at Durham Brass Festival. He will perform music from...
09/06/2025

There are only a few tickets remaining for Barry Hyde's performance at Durham Brass Festival. He will perform music from his solo album, ‘Miners’ Ballads,’ with the Durham Miners’ Association Brass Band at Redhills Durham on Monday 14 July.

Rooted in history yet deeply personal, Miners’ Ballads is an unforgettable musical journey through the stories, struggles, and resilience of the North East’s mining communities.

Remaining tickets are available at:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/brass/barry-hyde-presents-miners-ballads/

Our new Brass Boat Cruises are quickly selling out for this year's Durham Brass Festival. Cruise along the River Wear on...
07/06/2025

Our new Brass Boat Cruises are quickly selling out for this year's Durham Brass Festival.

Cruise along the River Wear on the Prince Bishop, with our fantastic street bands onboard on six cruises across the weekend.

Enjoy a full licensed bar, wonderful music from from one of our streets bands gorgeous views of Durham city, and an atmosphere you won’t forget. Sail from the Boathouse beneath Elvet Bridge to St Hild and St Bede College, and back via Prebends Bridge on the 60-minute cruise.

There are three cruises on Saturday 19th July at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm and three on Sunday 20th July at 11am, 1pm and 3pm each featuring a different band.

The events is ticketed and selling fast, so secure your spots at:
brassfestival.co.uk/events/

On Sunday 20 July, one of the world's finest brass The KNDS Fairey Band presents a spectacular concert of music and ani...
06/06/2025

On Sunday 20 July, one of the world's finest brass The KNDS Fairey Band presents a spectacular concert of music and animation as part of this year's Durham Brass Festival, performing a brass arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition to accompany animated interpretations of Mussorgsky's masterpiece.

The animations, created by Ion Concert Media in collaboration with the USC School of Cinematic Arts, bring Mussorgsky's musical response to Hartmann's visual to life, offering an immersive experience filled with rich fantasy, whimsiness, and adventure.

In a first for Durham Brass Festival and also performing on 20 July in the evening, The Fairey Band presents Acid Brass, its take on Acid House anthems with a traditional brass band.

The band continues to reinvent Acid Brass with a set that includes new arrangements and a mix of the best acid house anthems with 90s house classics.

Tickets are on sale for both events at:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/events/

🕺It's nearly time to get on your dancing shoes!🥳Party in the Park returns to Durham Brass at Wharton Park on Saturday 19...
05/06/2025

🕺It's nearly time to get on your dancing shoes!

🥳Party in the Park returns to Durham Brass at Wharton Park on Saturday 19th July at 5pm!

🎷Streets of Brass also returns to the festival across Durham City centre on Saturday 19th July from 10am and Sunday 20 July from 11am!

Both events are FREE to attend.

Who is joining us?

🎷With just over a month to go a reminder of what is taking place at Durham Brass Festival this summer!🗓 13-20 July 2025🎟...
03/06/2025

🎷With just over a month to go a reminder of what is taking place at Durham Brass Festival this summer!

🗓 13-20 July 2025

🎟Ticketed events will take place across the festival featuring the likes of Barry Hyde, Bill Ryder-Jones, Simon Armitage and LYR, The NETOA Wurlitzer, The KNDS Fairey Band, as well as our Brassed On event!

🕺Our Street Bands will also take over Durham for the Free to attend Party in the Park on Saturday 19th July and Street of Brass Saturday 19th July from 10am and Sunday 20 July.

⛵️Finally we have our new BRASS Boat Cruises on Saturday 19th July and Sunday 20 July, which are ticketed.

Who is joining us this July?

For more information on all of the events and to buy tickets visit:
https://brassfestival.co.uk/events

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Brass, Durham’s liveliest festival, is back for 2019 with 10 days of outstanding performances across County Durham.

As well as international street bands from Spain and Germany, we will be using cutting-edge technology to involve performers in Denmark, Norway and beyond in unique live performances with bands here in Durham. We also have a choir from Texas joining with our own Festival Chorus for a performance of Verdi’s magnificent Requiem in Durham Cathedral.

One of our main themes for 2019 is Brass and Health. We are taking music into care homes and hosting a ‘Healthy Brass’ day which will feature talks and workshops on how brass players can maintain good mental and physical health. This page is primarily for fans and is not the official means for contacting BRASS - if you need to get in touch please email [email protected]