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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Concert at West Aurora High School
    Concert at West Aurora High School
    Concert at West Aurora High School
    Thu, Mar 05
    West Aurora High School
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  • Concert at Illinois State University
    Concert at Illinois State University
    Concert at Illinois State University
    Fri, Mar 20
    ISU Center for the Performing Arts
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  • Gateway Brass Band Championships
    Gateway Brass Band Championships
    Gateway Brass Band Championships
    Sat, Mar 21
    Cornerstone Christian Church
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  • North American Brass Band Championships
    North American Brass Band Championships
    North American Brass Band Championships
    Fri, Apr 10
    Fort Wayne, IN
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  • Wurst Brass Festival
    Wurst Brass Festival
    Wurst Brass Festival
    Fri, Jun 19
    Amana, IA
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The Chicago Brass Band, or the CBB, is a thirty piece brass and percussion ensemble that performs concerts throughout the year in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in addition to participating in festivals and competitions throughout the world. Composed of cornets, flugel and tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums, trombones, tubas and percussion, the Band's repertoire includes classical transcriptions, popular music, jazz, traditional, show tunes, marches and original works for brass band. CBB has toured England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and most recently, New Zealand in the summer of 2019. The Band has twice been featured at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky and has been joined in concert by featured soloists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra including Gene Pokorny, Chris Martin, Charles Vernon, and John Hagstrom.

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The Chicago Brass Band acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

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