Durham

FESTIVAL GUIDE

7-16 JULY 2017 brassfestival.co.uk Durham For more details visit www.brassfestival.co.uk Call: 03000 266 600 2017AT A GLANCE or visit Gala Theatre in person.

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FRIDAY SATURDAY THURSDAY 13 JULY 07 JULY 07 Opening Event featuring Back Chat 08 JULY The Big BRASS Bus at Durham Miners BBC Big Band – Dizzy & Co Big BRASS Bash Brass - Market Place, Durham Gala - Millennium Place, Durham Gala Theatre Seaham

7 PM 6 PM 7.30 PM 8 PM 12.30 PM 6 PM 9 PM

FRIDAY SUNDAY

MONDAY Venetian Northern Soul The Big Big BRASS Big BRASS Jam Surround Sound BRASSed-Up BRASS Bus Bash TESTT Space 10 JULY 14 JULY 09 JULY BRASS on Broadway Big BRASS Bash Durham Gala Theatre Chester-le- Aycliffe (Empty Shop), Gala Theatre Spennymoor Cathedral Street North Road

8 PM 6 PM 11 AM 3 PM 6 PM 7.30 PM 9 PM

Streets of Brassed-Off Big BRASS Belshazzar’s Big BRASS Jam TUESDAY SATURDAY BRASS Day Play-Along Bash Finale Feast TESTT Space 11 JULY 11 Cutting Edge Brass Big BRASS Bash 15 JULY Durham City Gala Theatre Wharton Park, Durham (Empty Shop), Empty Shop CIC Crook Durham City Cathedral North Road

6 PM 6 PM 11 AM 3 PM

SUNDAY WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 12 JULY Big Brass Bash Streets of BRASS Streets of BRASS Cory Brass Band Shildon Durham City Durham City Gala Theatre

2 Book online: www.brassfestival.co.uk @DurhamBRASS /BrassInternationalFestival #DurhamBRASS 3 Oompah MEET THE STREET BANDS Brass UK Our longest serving band, the Artistas Del Gremio classically trained Oompah Spain Brass, bring their own unique Bavarian oompah twist to One of our favourite bands from 2015, this charismatic rock, pop and film classics. be-skirted bunch certainly know how to put on a show! From the Rocky theme tune From ACDC to a gentle waltz, they will have you hooked Llaggerub to Bohemian Rhapsody, they from the first ‘parp’! Astonishing musicianship, clever UK-Wales have delighted audiences Ooz Band covers and ‘interesting’ dance routines! across the world, but still find France Totally new to BRASS, time to come back to see Llaggerub hail from a small us here in Durham. And we New to BRASS, Ooz Band town in North Wales and love them! offer a mix of rock, funk, present a ferocious but and hip hop all with Back Chat Brass Hannabiell flavoursome mix of Jazz and Balkan influence. Fun and UK Saunders and Hip Hop, combined with a frenetic, they are all we dash of Welsh Pop channelled have come to expect and New to BRASS, but the eagle-eyed of you will Midnight Blue by way of the age-old march love from the French probably recognise a few players. With a nod band tradition. Got it? And top street bands. to their roots in pop, funk and hip hop, their UK marks for those of you who brassy twist on classic tunes combined with have worked out the Dylan This high energy ensemble is nothing less than electrifying showmanship make Back Chat Thomas reference. exhilarating as it fuses Afro-Caribbean & Latin Brass the ultimate street brass supergroup! percussion, Jazz, Afro-beat, Funk, and Reggae to create their unique sound. Their music not Xaral’s Dixie only produces an invigorating party atmosphere, Portugal it also demands audience participation. These cheeky chaps won the hearts of audiences and staff alike on their very first visit. A group of friends who simply want to have fun and entertain people with this joyful style of Dixie - an utter joy to watch.

Hope and Social Mr Wilson’s Second Liners UK UK

A Street Band Named Desire Mr Wilson’s Second Liners were the only new band at BRASS 2016, yet Inspired by their previous visits to BRASS, the boys (and girls) in walked away with The Golden Trumpet award after being voted the ‘people’s blazers have created their very own street band. And in the true spirit favourites’. Their infectious renditions of Hacienda and ‘Madchester’ classics of Hope and Social it involves messing around with plastic instruments appeals to all generations and provokes some quite special dancing from and getting the audience to join in. What could possibly go wrong… audiences. All together now – big fish, little fish, cardboard box.

4 Book online: www.brassfestival.co.uk @DurhamBRASS /BrassInternationalFestival #DurhamBRASS 5 Join our fabulous street bands as they tour throughout the County before ending with a dramatic grand finale in Durham City’s wonderful Wharton Park. THE Big BRASS bus supported by: You can visit the bus at the following locations: Friday 7th July / 1pm Market Place Durham: BIG OPENING EVENT Spennymoor

Saturday 8th July / all day Shildon BUS Millennium Place: BRASS DURHAM MINERS GALA Monday 10th July / 6pm-9pm Jubilee Park, Spennymoor: Crook THE BIG BRASS BASH Tuesday 11th July / 6pm-9pm Glenholme Park, Crook:

THE BIG BRASS BASH Wednesday 12th July / 6pm-9pm Seaham Timothy Hackworth Park, Shildon:

THE BIG BRASS BASH Thursday 13th July / 6pm-9pm Terrace Green, Seaham: Durham City THE BIG BRASS BASH Friday 14th July / 6pm-9pm Town Park, Aycliffe:

THE BIG BRASS BASH ALL ABOARD Saturday 15th July / 11am – 4pm Aycliffe Durham City: A major new initiative for 2017, our fabulous Big BRASS Bus will be touring the County visiting schools, streets and parks. Part-stage, part THE BIG BRASS BASH classroom, the bus will be supporting our ambition to inspire a new generation of young brass players. Courtesy of PBone, the lower deck Sunday 16th July / 11am – 5pm comes kitted-out with a host of colourful plastic instruments to give young people, and the young at heart, a chance to try playing brass. Durham City: Follow us on #BRASSbus THE BIG BRASS BASH FINALE

6 Book online: www.brassfestival.co.uk @DurhamBRASS /BrassInternationalFestival #DurhamBRASS 7 Venetian Surround Sound BRASS on Broadway Friday 14 July / 7.30pm / Durham Cathedral Sunday 9 July / 7.00pm / Gala Theatre £12 - £18 £17 (£15 Concessions) Durham Cathedral Choir and early music virtuosi Join the Scottish Swing Orchestra and the BRASS Broadway Chorus for swing versions of great Broadway songs. They will be joined by two His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts perform a thrilling stars of the West End Matt Corner (Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys) and programme of Venetian music: Gabrielli, Lassus and Kate Graham (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Billy Elliot) who hail Praetorius. They will be performing in various parts of from the North East. The show will feature songs from Anything Goes, Durham’s magnificent Cathedral to create a unique, Hairspray, Chicago, West Side Story and many more. surround sound experience.

Belshazzar’s Feast Saturday 15 July / 7.30pm / Durham Cathedral £13 - £20 Brass bands and choirs represent two of the North East’s strongest musical traditions. This concert brings them together in a spectacular new transcription of William Walton’s thrilling Belshazzar’s Feast. The concert will feature the Reg Vardy Band and a Dizzy & Co - special Festival Chorus drawn from leading local choirs and the great in a unique celebration of brass and voices. big band leaders Thursday 13 July / 7.30pm / Gala Theatre £17 (£15 Concessions) We celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time this year, Dizzy Gillespie. The legendary BBC Band will pay homage to his contribution to jazz, alongside that of the other great brass playing bandleaders, from Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey to Maynard Fergusson and Quincy Jones.

8 8 Book online: www.brassfestival.co.uk @DurhamBRASS /BrassInternationalFestival #DurhamBRASS 9 Northern Soul Champion Brass BRASSed-Up The Cory Band Friday 14 July / Doors and DJ 7pm Sunday 16 / July 3pm JOIN IN! Live set 7.30pm Gala Theatre Gala Theatre £18 (£16 Concessions) £20 (£17 concessions) The Cory Band continue to dominate the world of traditional brass and have Leading Northern Soul Band Keep the Faith become the first band in history to win the join the NASUWT Riverside Brass Band European, British National, British Open and for a spectacular coming together of two Brass in Concert titles in a single year. They great North East musical passions. Expect will be presenting the very best in traditional Big BRASS Jam big, bold and brassy versions of classic tracks brass band music and playing some of the Friday 14 and Saturday 15 July / 8pm especially arranged for this unique occasion. repertoire that took them to the grand-slam TESTT Space (Empty Shop), North Road There will also be DJ sets from legendary of contest titles. Northern Soul DJ Chris King to keep you £5 dancing all night long. Join members of our Big Band Summer School and the formidable rhythm section of the BBC Big Band for two brass inspired evenings of great jazz. Experienced brass players are welcome to book a performing slot by emailing [email protected]

BRASSed-off Play Along Saturday 15 July / 11am rehearsal and 3pm performance / Gala Theatre

£12 - £18 Enjoy the seminal brass band movie, but with a twist – you can join in! Bring your instrument and join Ian Robinson and members of Easington Brass Band in a unique play-along performance of BRASSed Off. We will be rehearsing the music at 11am with the Play-a-Long commencing at 3pm.

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The centrepiece of our festival, Streets of BRASS, brings Durham City to life with a different funky beat on every corner. And if you’re not satisfied with just watching, look out for The Big BRASS Bus where you can try playing a pBone, pTrumpet or pBuzz.

Saturday 15 - Sunday 16 July 11 - 5pm All over Durham City

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12 Book online: www.brassfestival.co.uk @DurhamBRASS /BrassInternationalFestival #DurhamBrass 13 Cutting Edge BRASS Jazz in the Big Band Summer School Tuesday 11 July / 7.30pm Empty Shop CIC Undercroft Led by Jiggs Whigham and Wednesday 12 July / 7.00pm members of the BBC Big Undercroft Restaurant, Band, an intensive 3 day £10 (£8 Concessions) Durham Cathedral big band summer school Empty Shop CIC is temporarily transformed for young, intermediate and £27.50 into a jazz club for leading contemporary advanced musicians. Like the jazz outfit The Family Band. Rooted in Enjoy an evening of jazz in the Undercroft concert it will focus on the the music of Ornette Coleman, they play Restaurant, to celebrate this year’s Durham music of the great brass big powerful and freewheeling music full BRASS Festival. Tickets include a tapas style band leaders. Full details and of intensity, introspection and of course three-course meal and drinks reception. an application form can be the blues. Contact [email protected] found on our website for tickets (pre-booking is required and no brassfestival.co.uk refunds can be offered).

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