Join the Vintage Brass Band at Hamilton’s in Jacksonville, IL on Saturday, February 27th! Proceeds of this fundraiser will benefit two local projects, the restoration of the Grierson Monument and the General Grierson Days re-enactment. Tickets are $30 per person or $255 for a table of 8. From 6:00 – 7:00, a quartet will perform [...]

Congratulations to the members of the Vintage Brass Band on a successful inaugural season! Highlights of the Vintage Brass Band’s Inaugural 2009 season include performances at the 7th Annual Boneyard Arts Festival, 14th Annual General Grierson Liberty Days in Jacksonville, the Capital 4th of July Celebration in Springfield, the Dedication of the Historic Mt. Pulaski [...]

Springfield, IL; October 24, 2009 – The Vintage Brass Band of Springfield, IL presents A Vintage Brass Christmas on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. December 12, at First Presbyterian Church, 321 South 7th St., Springfield, IL.  Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. The Vintage Brass Band will perform 17th Century antiphonal music by [...]

CHANGE OF DATE! Due to rainy weather, the bandshell construction is behind schedule – Join us instead on the morning of September 12, 2009. On September 12 at 11:00am, the VBB will perform an hour long concert for the dedication of a newly constructed band shell – an exact replica of the band shell that [...]

Friday, August 7, 2009 – evening The Vintage Brass Band will perform two one-hour concerts on the Decatur Celebration main stage featuring brass band music from the 1840′s – 1880′s. Learn about the evolution of music spanning this influential time period that contained the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Westward Expansion. Enjoy [...]

Friday, July 3, 2009 – evening The Vintage Brass Band will perform in cooperation with the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment from approximately 5:30 – 6:15 on the Old State Capital lawn in Springfield, IL. Our special Independence Day concert will feature patriotic music from the the Benjamin Grierson Collection, the books of the Humboldt [...]

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Jacksonville, Illinois’ Community Park the VBB will perform a one hour concert, Vintage 1840-1865:  Music of General Benjamin Grierson.  Grierson’s collection of music, researched and arranged by Dr. Lavern Wagner, represents the oldest collection of American band music of its size.  Join the VBB as it celebrates [...]