Trimdon Brass Bash
The Line-up is out for our Big Brass Bash event hosted by Trimdon Parish Council.
Experience the atmosphere of Durham Brass Festival, across the county, with Brass Bashes! Join our street bands for performances across the local area.
The Durham Brass Festival is coming to Trimdon! Join us for a FREE evening of live music on Thursday 17 July from 6.00pm until 9.00pm with:
John Birks Orchestra. Founded in 2022 through the union of talented musicians from all corners of Italy, the John Birks Orchestra embodies a powerful mix of cultures, styles, and passions. More than just a band, they are a sonic laboratory where hip hop, funk, jazz, Latin rhythms, and Brazilian choro blend into a fresh, explosive sound.
With 9 artists on stage, trumpets, saxophones, trombones, tubas, and percussion create a harmonious wall of sound that sweeps the audience away, turning every performance into an unforgettable experience.
Mr Wilson's Second Liners. In New Orleans, funerals are celebrated in style, with noisy brass bands processing through the streets. The main section of the parade is known as First Line, but the real fun starts with the Second Line, those who follow the band to enjoy the music, marching with the musicians and twirling parasols or waving handkerchiefs.
A rabble of mischievous northerners, Mr Wilson’s Second Liners form a traditional New Orleans Second Line. However, this is no sombre occasion: Mr Wilson’s expend their collective musical talent paying homage to the diehard days of the Hacienda, 90s club culture and its greatest hero, Mr Tony Wilson.
These revolutionary genre bashers knock the First Line sideways, opting for upbeat dance tracks over traditional slow hymns. Proudly stepping out in uniformed style, they channel the spirit of the 24 hour party people and get audiences dancing wherever they play.
The vision is an anarchic, street extravaganza, bursting with colour and sound, rallying impromptu raves on street corners and rousing audiences young and old into a joyful frenzy.
Diddy Sweg. Hailing from a distant galaxy, Diddy Sweg’s mission on Earth is clear: to unite all beings from all corners of the galaxy through the universal language of music, and to protect them against the evil Lord Velcron and his minions of octopi.
Warping through Disco, Drum and Bass, Garage and beyond; Diddy Sweg invites you to join them on a surreal interstellar journey filled with infectious beats, alien invasions and a whole lot of Sweg.
Young Pilgrims. Young Pilgrims have found themselves drawing fans from across Europe and beyond with their intense live performances – from beer-soaked dance floors to London’s South Bank, the Paris Jazz Festival to Love Supreme Festival
The Pilgrims’ adventurous brass-heavy, rock-influenced sound is brought together by their explosive brass line-up, featuring trumpets and trombones alongside the baritone sax, sousaphone and two drummers driving the band’s high-energy rhythmic groove.
With improvising invention set against their infectious melodies, the band have been together since 2013 and take their inspiration from renegades, Scottish cities, skateboarding and even accidental incursions into a local murky canals.
Always Drinking Marching Band. ADMB is one of the most active, veteran and successful street arts companies in Spain. Founded in Barcelona in 1997, today it is an artistic production company specialising in music, theatre and clowning with a track record of more than 1000 performances all over the world.
The Street Is Ours, which could be considered as the true symbol of the Always Drinking Productions, has travelled practically all over Europe and world. A setlist of originals and crazy covers, with the hallmark of the Always Drinking Marching Band, high quality music and surreal gags is what makes this show an unique experience.
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