Hannah discovers the first all female brass band in the USA as she drops another pin on her map of banding. Conductor Duncan Beckley recounts a joyous story of overcoming adversity and finding ...

The penultimate episode of the 10-part Radio 3 series sees presenter Hannah Peel look to the USA under the heading 'An all ...

Amy Duncan is an American pianist, composer and arranger originally from New York, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She originally put her band, Brass Tacks, together in New York in 1984, where ...

Brass bands have a long history in Scotland. They were generally associated with the country's mining and other industrial communities, but as industry declined, the bands were affected. At one ...

BBC Scotland's Gillian Sharpe looks at the boom in brass bands across Scotland, as the old tradition makes a comeback.