Started in circa 1966 by woodwork master Jack Fletcher, this youth band was winning pretty much every major youth brass band competition by the mid '70's.  This continued through the '80's until Glossop School was reorganised as a split site and Jack Fletcher retired.  The tradition of excellent music at the school continued, however, with Band Alumni returning as music teachers at the school, now named Glossopdale Community College.

Musica Charleston, Blues, Dixie, Standards Jazz e Swing!

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Giorgio Guindani    338 1962825
Ludovico Gandellini 333 4603340

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Giorgio Guindani 
Osvaldo Tagliani
Ganni La Vecchia
Ludovico Gandellini

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We are Wicked Knee. A brass band from New York City.

Booka Brass Band are a group of eight musicians that span the length and breadth of Ireland stretching from Belfast all the way to Cork.

Formed in November 2012, since then they have quickly gone from strength to strength on the live music scene in Ireland. With regular shows in venues all over Dublin including The Sugar Club, Whelan’s and Twisted Pepper, alongside stomping sets to festival crowds at Electric Picnic, Sea Sessions and Longitude, their unique offering and incredible live energy has brought them an unusual level of success in their first year together. 

Booka Brass Band have developed their sound and set up over the last twelve months through a succession of great opportunities, all well deserved and well executed. They have also grown in size, now containing seven members consisting of two trumpets, two trombones, saxophone, sousaphone and drums. With six band members still full-time students, they also stretch the length and breadth of the country coming from Cork all the way to Belfast, studying everything from medicine to law. Classically trained, the band also brings a great understanding of classical harmony which can be heard behind the beats of their original tunes.

In the past few months they have opened shows for New Orleans own Hot 8 Brass Band and the critically acclaimed Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. They've also collaborated with some of Ireland's biggest acts including Jerry Fish and Lisa Hannigan on the back of their eleventh hour set at Turning Pirate's New Year’s Eve Mixtape at Vicar Street.

‘If you can only take in one new act this festival season, make it Booka Brass Band’ – The Irish Independent

"Massive Attack may have been the big draw of Sunday night and they didn't disappoint ….. however little did anyone know but the performance of the whole weekend was taking place on the festival's smallest stage, the Speakeasy Dirty Old Town. Booka Brass Band, Ireland's only New Orleans style eight-piece brass band are undoubtedly a “have to see it to believe it” type of act. A range of high energy self-penned tunes combined with quite incredible covers of Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty and Beyonce's Crazy In Love have those in attendance screaming for more as they leave the stage. Alas, stage hands said there was to be no more and so after much protesting, Booka Brass took the crowd out into the fields and continued playing into the night. It was a moment which summed up Longitude in one foul swoop."
 – In Dublin Magazine

Since their first sold out show in the Button Factory where they collaborated with Jerry Fish and Lisa Hannigan, the band have been all over Ireland and beyond, with shows at Glastonbury Festival, main stage Body and Soul, headlining Knockanstockan and Barn Dance Festival, opening for Imelda May and being invited to play for The President in Áras an Uachtaráin.

The Heavyweights Brass Band have built a reputation as Canada’s reigning champions of feel­-good horn music. Over the last decade they have toured extensively and shared the stage with Trombone Shorty, The Roots, Galactic, and The Soul Rebels, among many others. Their unique style never fails to move any audience, and has earned them a loyal following from fans across all genres.

The secret to the Heavyweights reach can be found in the folk origins of jazz. Following in the footsteps of the originators, their music is shaped not only by their environment but by traditions dating back centuries, creating an alchemy which has universal appeal. Happily at home on stage with such diverse artists as Jane Bunnett, Jay Douglas, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Treme Brass Band, the Heavyweights roll with the punches and always deliver a knockout blow.

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