The young music students need to work on their ensemble skills. They're good musicians, but as a brass band they need to become better at listening—to themselves and their band mates. You can hear the ...

The Big RTG-AAG Band (Brass Big Band) is performing in the Goethe Zentrum/Ugandan German Cultural Society (GZK/ UGCS) gardens (6, Mackinnon road, Nakasero) Saturday evening. The band is composed of 28 ...

KAMPALA — After hearing a school band practice, a group of street kids in 1990s Uganda set up a brass band of its own called M-lisada. Today the band's original founder runs a home for street kids, ...

Isha Ranchod talks to Alison Balsom about how Brass for Africa is giving Ugandan children the opportunity to play music together If you found out that your son’s junior band had 30 brass instruments ...

"This is the coolest orphanage I have ever seen. Come." A friend sent me this simple email after spending an afternoon with the directors and children of M-Lisada in Kampala, Uganda. Three weeks later ...

The tuba, possessing the lowest pitch, is the largest brass instrument, its bell looking like a large, shiny dinner plate lurking over the tubaist's head. And in 2011 Amy Klosterman boarded an ...

His band is called the Kampala Youth Brass Band. Captain John Mwaase, Michael's father, and Reverand Father Wynand Huys, a Dutch missionary, founded a band called Kamuli Mission Brass Band based in ...

It's considered to be the ‘World Cup’ of brass band competitions – and the Saddleworth and Oldham Whit Friday Band Contest may soon be playing host to its first African entry. A group of 87 young ...

A JAZZ musician is calling on people to get their dusty and disused instruments out of the attic and donate them to a good cause. Becky Payne, who lives in Chorlton, is hoping to collect as many ...

The exodus was impressive. The JLS, Nneka and a host of others who came in and were never noticed by the main stream are all just part of the train. The list of foreign bands to have visited Uganda in ...

While they are two unique individuals, they both come from challenging backgrounds, suffered childhood trauma, and used their artistic gifts to turn their lives around. On a Wednesday evening, when I ...