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]

🎷It has been two months since Durham Brass Festival 2025!What an incredible eight days we had 🕺
16/09/2025

🎷It has been two months since Durham Brass Festival 2025!

What an incredible eight days we had 🕺

Thanks to the Banks Group’s Banks Community Fund we were able to take traditional brass bands into 20 care home setting...
11/08/2025

Thanks to the Banks Group’s Banks Community Fund we were able to take traditional brass bands into 20 care home settings as part of our Sound of Sunday programme.

Brass music will be very familiar to many of the residents and, as well as providing entertainment, we wanted to use the music to evoke emotions, trigger recognition, and improve mood.

We also took our street bands into 64 school settings this year, providing entertainment, education and inspiration for the next generation of musicians.

The Banks Group also very kindly sponsored the wonderful traditional Sunday afternoon concert at Gala Durham, which included a spellbinding performance of Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ accompanied by projected animations.

28/07/2025

🎷An incredible end to this year's Durham Brass Festival 2025 with some Pet Shop Boys classics in Durham City Market Square!

⏪ It's already been a week since Streets of Brass and Party in the Park!What an incredible eight days we had for Durham ...
26/07/2025

⏪ It's already been a week since Streets of Brass and Party in the Park!

What an incredible eight days we had for Durham Brass Festival 2025!

On Sunday our Bridging Generations Through Music – Sound of Sunday programme saw traditional brass ensembles take music ...
22/07/2025

On Sunday our Bridging Generations Through Music – Sound of Sunday programme saw traditional brass ensembles take music directly to care homes for residents to enjoy.

Our incredible Street Bands delivered interactive performances across Co Durham Schools to over 15,000 children as part ...
22/07/2025

Our incredible Street Bands delivered interactive performances across Co Durham Schools to over 15,000 children as part of Durham Brass Festival 2025 last week!

If you attended a Durham Brass Festival event this year we would be grateful if you could complete our event survey.The ...
22/07/2025

If you attended a Durham Brass Festival event this year we would be grateful if you could complete our event survey.

The purpose of this research is to understand more about your visit to Durham Brass Festival 2025 and improve the experience of attendees.

You can complete the survey at:
https://survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/7/p970252771327.aspx

📸 We have had an incredible line-up of street bands for Durham Brass Festival 2025 that have performed this week across ...
21/07/2025

📸 We have had an incredible line-up of street bands for Durham Brass Festival 2025 that have performed this week across County Durham at our Streets of Brash, Party in the Park and Brass Bash events, as well as visiting local schools!

What was your highlight from the week?

Always Drinking Marching Band , Brazen Brass Band , Das Brass , Diddy Sweg , Felling Band , John Birks Orchestra, Mr Wilson's Second Liners , New York Brass Band , Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band , Redhills DMS Street Band, Spanish City Rollers , Spennymoor Town Band, Storytellers, Suboptimal , YMP / Houghton. Yorky Pud Street Band and Young Pilgrims

🎷🕺Durham Brass Festival 2025 is in the books!Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for this year’s festival across...
21/07/2025

🎷🕺Durham Brass Festival 2025 is in the books!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for this year’s festival across eight days of incredible music and entertainment!

A huge thank you to the amazingly talented bands and artists who performed across the County.

Thank you to our events team and volunteers who made the event possible!

Big thanks to Arts Council England and Durham County Council for their continued support.

And, of course, thanks to YOU, our incredible audience who have joined us at all of our events making 2025 a festival we will never forget!

20/07/2025

Durham Brass 2025 Streets of Brass FINALE! 🎵 🎺 🎉

20/07/2025

🎷🕺The party carried on into the afternoon and the night!

Here are some of the best bits from Saturday afternoon. We saw incredible crowds across the city despite the rain!

More to come today from 11am-5pm!

20/07/2025

🎷🕺What a day we had yesterday as Streets of Brass returned to Durham City!

Here are some of the best bits from the morning

🎥Can you spot yourself?

More to come today from 11am-5pm!

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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]