Here are 9 old-fashioned wedding customs in the South that we heed and cherish. Perhaps our favorite Southern wedding ...

As a youngster and teenager, the writer, Ms. Rush remembers the Morrisville Brass Band playing at the Friendship UMC Homecoming ‘picnic’ event on the Saturdays before Labor Day for many years ...

If you hire a DJ to play at your wedding, there's typically only one or two people you need to feed. If you hire a band, you could have four, 10, or even more people part of the group that will ...

The Hot 8 Brass Band, as of early 2017, consists of, from left, Christopher Cotton, Tyrus Chapman, Anthony Brooks, Harry Cook, Bennie Pete, Larry Brown, Alvarez Huntley and Andrew Calhoun.

For the first time in its 49-year history, an all-female band will be leading the march. The Brass Queens are an eight-piece brass band hailing from Brooklyn, and the musicians are all women.

Largemouth Brass Band, an eight-person ensemble of classically trained music educators, aim to teach listeners just how fun brass instruments can be. Bold, loud and lively, the band hopes to make ...

The brass-focused band even has played with an accordion once. Raycurt Johnson is a professionally-trained musician who met members of the group after he started bringing his violin to the square ...

As luck, or lack thereof, would have it, one of Klein’s longest-running projects, the all-star brass band New Orleans Nightcrawlers, had planned to release its first album in 11 years this spring.

Don Bookout formed the Crossroads Brass Band in 2012 and helped steer it for years. He died in June, and the band has planned a memorial concert for him on Friday at Greenwood United Methodist Church.

There could be 10,000 to 12,000 people at that Aug. 3 show, during which Rowdy Brass will perform in a lineup with Guerrilla Fanfare and Tivoli Club Brass Band, Hinkle said. “It’s big time.” ...