Boneyard Arts Festival w/ the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Saturday, April 18, 2009 – 11:00am – 3:00pm

Join us on April 18th, 2009 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois for the premiere performance of the Vintage Brass Band. By invitation of Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the band will recreate a July 4, 1876 Centennial celebration concert performed by the Humboldt, Kansas Brass Band. The band will perform original arrangements from the Humboldt Books using the Archive’s restored set of brass instruments from the nineteenth century. Both the music and instruments are part of the Carl Busch Papers and Music Instrument Collection housed at the Archives.

Part of the Boneyard Arts Festival, the band will be performing arrangements from the Humboldt Books throughout the day from 11am – 3pm at the Archives, #236 Harding Band Building, 1103 S Sixth St, Champaign, IL. Festival visitors who arrive on the Boneyard Trolley will be treated to a tour of the Archives and a trip back in time to experience the sounds of authentic 1870′s brass music.

Related Links:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
7th Annual Boneyard Arts Festival
Carl Busch Papers and Music Instrument Collection, ca. 1833-1924