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August 2008 Brass Band Concerts, Contests & Events click here for new additions for bands across the UK and overseas   Brass Bands Ballyduff Silver Band Croft Silver Band Pleasley Colliery Welfare Band Solent Fellowship Band Tongwynlais Temperance Band   Brass Ensembles Horns a Plenty Quantum Brass   Wind, Concert & Marching Bands Harmonie d'Aix-en-Provence   Commercial/Suppliers Cleave Brass - Mouthpieces   Miscellaneous Band Club of Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes British Open Brass Band Championships How Brass Bands Are Made Kevin Morgan Regal Zonophone Salvation Army Recordings Saddleworth Brass Band Clubs' Concert Diary Thomas family and New Zealand Brass Bands Trombone Cartoons Trombone Forum Trumpet Instruments   Books and Publications  Cox, Lindsay E - Brave & True - From Blue to Khaki: the Band of the 2/22nd Battalion - [life of Arthur Gullidge] Getz, Robert - Aspiration - Anecdotal Snapshots of Genius - [biography of Dr Emil Soderstrom] - 2008 Holz, Ronald W - The Proclaimers - 120 years of the New York Staff Band - NY Salvation Army - 2006 Lund, Brian - Let's Listen to the Band! - Picture Postcard Monthly - No. 351, July 2008, pp.30-32 Warren, Richard S. - The History of Croft Silver Band   Extinct Bands - new/updated entries Earls Colne Band

General statistics Sites: 1,055 UK Brass Bands 1,060 International Brass Bands 1,090 Brass Ensembles 1,920 Wind/Concert Bands 2,740 Other brass related sites Reference: 6,500 Events annually 2,700 Extinct brass bands 1,400 Band genealogies 3,390 Recordings listed 1,540 Books and articles listed 7,800 Vintage band pictures    800 Vintage people pictures 1,550 Brassy gallery pictures Visitors: c. 1,000 unique visitors per day What was New 2008 (166) 2007 (358) 2006 (529) 2005 (637) 2004 (598) 2003 (555) 2002 (766) 2001 (931) 2000 (1099) 1999 (964) 1998 (436)

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