They were greeted by a brass band at Union Station, which is also still there.
Other events include Europe's biggest brass band festival and a re-enactment of the Battle of Bannockburn.
In fact, what we had to do was make the computer actually follow the brass band.
The Gangbe Brass Band, from Benin, seemed to sum up everything Womad stands for.
The dancing and brass band processions happen nearly every Sunday, except during the hottest months of summer.
Horn player Sheona White will play with the acclaimed brass band at the contest in Birmingham in September.
It features the Rebirth Brass Band, where Ruffins got his start, on Mondays.
Mr. LEE: We did a collaboration with a brass band actually from Romania, which we didn't think would work.
Tributes were paid to the victims and rescue teams at the miners welfare brass band competition in Porthcawl on Saturday.
The next day's service, at Fifth African Baptist, was for Dinerral Shavers, 25, a snare drummer with the Hot 8 brass band.
Drummer French, for example, leads the Original Tuxedo Brass Band, organized in 1910 and formerly led by his father, Albert (Papa) French.
Her move leaves the Brighouse and Rastrick band as the only major UK brass band without a single woman in its ranks.
He was born into a brass band family and was taught to play the cornet at the age of four by his father.
"I wish you success, " he told the French as a Malian brass band, their instruments poorly tuned, worked their way through a marching chorale.
Jazz had become establishment music except for the brass band phenomenon.
The work features musicians from across Yorkshire, including a Sheffield brass band, Columbian drummers from Leeds, the York Minster carillon player and a harpist from Haworth.
It also brings out the local talent that makes this one of the most musically rich cities in America: Mardi Gras Indians, Theresa Andersson, Soul Rebels brass band and Dr John.
Watkins then played in the band his father conducted - the Spring Gardens Brass Band in Reading - of which his grandfather was also conductor and a founder member.
Supporters of Welsh banding blew their own trumpet at the launch of the new national body - Brass Band Forum Wales - Fforwm Bandiau Pres Cymru, at the senedd in Cardiff Bay.
When the village, famous for its brass band which featured in the film Brassed Off, heard its colliery was to shut, the best years of Danny Gillespie's life flashed before his eyes.
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Village men and boys, disguised in masks that depict traditional characters (red masks for boys and black for married men), go from door to door around the village, accompanied by a brass band.
Seattle's ceremony included 133 couples, who walked outside and down rain-slickened steps afterward, where they were greeted by cheers, confetti and a brass band celebrating the first day same-sex couples could marry in Washington.
Seventeen members of the band were still employed at the colliery and facing redundancy but they and their bandmates won the contest and were crowned brass band champions of Great Britain for only the second time.
By naturally throwing a totally different kind of party: a grooving, brass band-backed funk fest that stretched to 3 a.m. and outlasted many fans lucky enough to get inside the exclusive show that also featured A Tribe Called Quest.
The project is called New Music 20x12 which covers a wide range of genres from contemporary classical, folk and opera in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beat boxing, jazz and brass band music in England and Wales.
Its commercials (like the video above) are filled with heart-tugging images: beaches and bayous, the arches of Utah, a fin-tailed convertible cruising a neon-lit street, a girl running through a field of goldenrod, a New Orleans brass band and a biker heading toward the Golden Gate.
It came to public attention in 1992 when - having survived the closures which prompted the miners strike of 1984 - the closure of the pit was announced by the government five days before the National Brass Band Championships at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Mr. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Trumpet, Hot 8 Brass Band): I'd like to just go back on the history of the music because coming up as a young musician, I didn't know much about the music - the history of the New Orleans' music or just music in general - how the music developed here in America.
Mr. BENNIE PETE (Tuba Player, Hot 8 Brass Band): We knew they were there because that's where they were housing the evacuees, and we just showed up and, you know, we were going there with - on our mind to kind of just show what we had, to share with each other that we were united.
Brass-band funerals are a life force here, a send off carrying the promise of a more lyrical world to come.
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