Great American Brass Band Festival

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The Great American Brass Band Festival is a music festival held each June in Danville, Kentucky since 1990. The open-air festival features a wide variety of brass bands, a hot air balloon race, a picnic, and other activities. Each year up to 40,000 people travel to the small town (population 15,000) for the event.

Bands that have performed at the Festival[]

Bands that have performed at the event since 1990 include:

  • 202nd Army Band (Kentucky Army National Guard), Frankfort, Kentucky (2002-2003, 2005-2006)
  • 257th Army Band, Washington, DC (2003-2004)
  • 8th Regiment Band, Rome, Georgia (2002-2003, 2006)
  • Advocate Brass Band, Danville, Kentucky (1991-2012)
  • Athena Brass Band Montgomery Village, Maryland (2005)
  • Band of the Air Force Reserve, Robins AFB, Georgia (2002)
  • Brass Band of Columbus, Columbus, Ohio (2007)
  • BrassRoots, Mount Brydges, Ontario (2005)
  • Boston Brass, (2006)
  • Centre Trumpets, Danville, Kentucky (2005)
  • Chicago Brass Band, Chicago, Illinois (2005, 2009)
  • Cincinnati Brass Band, Cincinnati, Ohio (2002)
  • Circle City Sidewalk Stompers (clown band), Indianapolis, Indiana (2002-2012)
  • Danville Pipe Band, Danville, Kentucky (2003-2006)
  • Dick Domek and the Walnut Street Ragtime Ramblers, Kentucky (2006)
  • DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra, Lexington, Kentucky (2005)
  • Dixie Express (2002)
  • Dixie Power Trio, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2002-2004)
  • Dodworth Saxhorn Band, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2005)
  • Euphouria (tuba/euphonium quartet), Cookeville, Tennessee (2002-2006)
  • Federal City Brass Band, Baltimore, Maryland (2004)
  • Fountain City Brass Band, Kansas City, Missouri (2008, 2010)
  • Franconian Harmonics, Estenfeld, Germany (2004)
  • Great Olympian Trad. Jazz Band, New Orleans, Louisiana (2005-2006)
  • Indiana Wind Symphony, Indianapolis, Indiana (2006, 2011)
  • Intrada Brass Band, Oakville, Ontario (2004)
  • James Madison University Brass Band, Harrisonburg, Virginia (2006)
  • Kentuckiana Brass and Percussion Ensemble, (1990)
  • Lexington Brass Band, Lexington, Kentucky (2003, 2006)
  • London Citadel Brass Band, London, Ontario (2006)
  • Madison Community Band, Richmond, Kentucky (2012, 2016)
  • Main Street Brass, Cynthiana, Kentucky (2002-2003)
  • Millennium Brass Quintet (2002, 2004, 2006)
  • Mississauga Temple Band, Mississauga, Ontario (2003)
  • Mr. Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2004)
  • Munich Trumpet Ensemble, Munich, Germany (2002)
  • Musikverein Herforst 1933 e.V., Herforst, Germany (2000,2002)
  • National Capital Band of the S.A., Washington, DC (2005)
  • New Columbian Wind Band (2002)
  • Ohio Wheelmen, (2005-2006)
  • Olde Towne Brass, Huntsville, Alabama (2002-2003)
  • Olympia Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana (2002-2004)
  • Piedmont Trombone Society, Atlanta, Georgia (2006)
  • Rhythm & Brass, Waco, Texas (2005-2006)
  • Saxton's Cornet Band, Kentucky (2004-2006)
  • Sierra del Mar Divisional Band, San Diego, California (2004)
  • Southern Territorial Band of the Salvation Army, Atlanta, Georgia (2002)
  • St. James Tripolians Steel Orchestra, Trinidad (2002)
  • The Disneyland Band (2002)
  • The Federal City Brass Band, Baltimore, Maryland (2004)
  • The Hellcats, West Point, New York (2003)
  • The U.S. Air Force Band of Flight, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (2004)
  • The U.S. Coast Guard Band, New London, Connecticut (2003)
  • U.S. Marine Band Brass Quintet, Washington, DC (2002)
  • Triangle Youth Band, Raleigh, North Carolina (2003)
  • Village Brass, Columbus, Ohio (2003)

Other musicians and featured appearances[]

  • Allen Vizzutti, Mercer Island, Washington (2005)
  • Steve Sykes, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK (2001)
  • Daniel Rodriguez, New York, New York (2002)
  • Patricia Backhaus, Waukesha, Wisconsin (2005)
  • Frederick Fennell, 1914-2004 (2001)
  • Jens Lindemann, Los Angeles, California (2006)
  • Scott Kirby, Sandpoint, Idaho (2003-2005)
  • Steven Mead, (2005)
  • The Wheelmen, Ohio (2003-2004)

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Coordinates: 37°38′39.7″N 84°46′41.3″W / 37.644361°N 84.778139°W / 37.644361; -84.778139

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