Harmonies on the Hudson Concert Series featuring Yankee Brass Band - Clermont State Historic Site

We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country. This milestone commemorates the conflict that began in 1775, when the Thirteen Colonies rose up against British rule, leading to the birth of the United States in 1776. Since 1987, the Yankee Brass Band has entertained audiences in New England and beyond with historically informed performances of nineteenth-century American brass band music. Using antique brass and percussion instruments from the period, painstakingly restored by their owners, the Yankee Brass Band presents the music of the “Golden Age of Bands” played in much the same manner as in the mid- to late nineteenth century. To recreate this music, the band plays close attention to the aesthetics, performance practice, and concert attire of an earlier time. For one week each summer, the members of the Yankee Brass Band assemble from across the country to preserve this unique musical legacy through a series of live performances. Each year’s concert repertoire is developed through careful study of period programs, personal papers, manuscripts, and early printed music, along with a variety of band artifacts.