Great American Brass Band Festival
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The Great American Brass Band Festival is a music festival held annually 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 2002 include:
- 202nd Army Band (Kentucky Army National Guard), Frankfort, Kentucky (2002-2003)
- 257th Army Band, Washington, DC (2003-2004)
- 8th Regiment Band, Rome, Georgia (2002-2003)
- Advocate Brass Band, Danville, Kentucky (2002-2004)
- Band of the Air Force Reserve, Robins AFB, Georgia (2002)
- Cincinnati Brass Band, Cincinnati, Ohio (2002)
- Circle City Sidewalk Stompers (clown band), Indianapolis, Indiana (2002-2004)
- Danville Pipe Band, Danville, Kentucky (2003-2004)
- Dixie Express (2002)
- Dixie Power Trio, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2002-2004)
- Euphouria (tuba/euphonium quartet), Cookeville, Tennessee (2002-2004)
- Federal City Brass Band, Baltimore, Maryland (2004)
- Franconian Harmonics, Estenfeld, Germany (2004)
- Intrada Brass Band, Oakville, Ontario (2004)
- James Madison University Brass Band, Harrisonburg, Virginia (2006)
- Lexington Brass Band, Lexington, Kentucky (2003)
- Main Street Brass, Cynthiana, Kentucky (2002-2003)
- Millennium Brass Quintet (2002, 2004)
- 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. (2002)
- New Columbian Wind Band (2002)
- Olde Towne Brass, Huntsville, Alabama (2002-2003)
- Olympia Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana (2002-2004)
- Saxton's Cornet Band, Kentucky (2004)
- 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
- Daniel Rodriguez, New York, New York (2002)
- Scott Kirby, Sandpoint, Idaho (2003-2004)
- The Wheelmen, Ohio (2003-2004)
External links
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