CD Release Concert and Interview LIVE on WUIS 91.9 Springfield!

The Vintage Brass Band of Springfield, IL announces the release of its first CD, Vintage 1876: Music of the Humboldt Brass Band. In celebration of this milestone, we will present a live, on air concert, Thursday, July 8, 2010 from noon to 1:00 on WUIS – WIPA Public Radio, 91.9 or 89.3 FM. The broadcast can also be heard online at wuis.org. Click here to stream WUIS.  Tune in as classical radio host Karl Scroggin interviews Artistic Director Todd Cranson and VBB Explicatrix Jessica Davis, and hear the Vintage Brass Band present live performances of selections from the CD!

About the CD: THE HUMBOLDT BRASS BAND | 1866 – ca. 1880
Upon his return home to Kansas following the Civil War, bandsman Richard Redfield formed the Humboldt Brass Band in the spring of 1866. The band’s hand-written part books survive to this day, carefully collected and preserved by Carl Busch (former conductor of the Kansas City Symphony) and later the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois where they are housed today. This recording is a sampling of the over 70 works found in these books, brought back to life for the first time in over a century by the Vintage Brass Band

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