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.

BBC: Wonderbrass

Jazz had become establishment music except for the brass band phenomenon.

NPR: 'The Great Deluge': A Katrina Post-Mortem

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.

NPR: Hot 8 Brass Band Play For A Living New Orleans