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Brass Band To Perform

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 20, 2008

CARROLLWOOD - The Sunshine Brass Band will be featured in the "Awesome In August: A Pops Concert" at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.

The band, from Tampa and drawing musicians from the Tampa Bay area and central Florida, performs British-style brass band music. The band's conductor is Jim Cheyne.

According to the band's biography, brass bands originate from the early 19th century and England's Industrial Revolution and were popular in America in that century before concert and marching bands superseded them. Only in the last 25 years has there been a resurgence of brass bands in North America.

A traditional British-style brass band such as the Sunshine Brass Band is unique among other types of concert bands in its instrumentation and music. The band uses cornets instead of trumpets, tenor horns instead of French horns, baritones, euphoniums, tubas, trombones and percussion.

Tickets are $10 for members, seniors and students and $15 for nonmembers. The cultural center is at 4537 Lowell Road.

Artworks by Armida Nagy Stickney will be on display.

Staff report

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