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Great American Brass Band Festival
Danville, KY · Music
- When
- June 24–26, 2027
- Where
- Centre College and Downtown Danville · Danville · KY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A free four day brass music festival on the Centre College campus and throughout downtown Danville, with a New Orleans style street party, a Main Street parade and evening concerts on the lawn. It has run every June since 1990 and is considered one of the country's premier brass band gatherings. (2027 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- Great American Brass Band Festivalsame spot
A free four day brass music festival on the Centre College campus and throughout downtown Danville, with a New Orleans style street party, a Main Street parade and evening concerts on the lawn.
The largest battle fought in Kentucky, and a strange one: an acoustic shadow meant Buell sat three miles off with most of his army, unable to hear that a full engagement was under way.
Converts from the Cane Ridge revivals formed a celibate community that grew to five hundred people and three thousand acres, farming with a precision their neighbours copied and selling seed and brooms across the South.
A cantilever railway bridge 275 feet above the river, the tallest of its kind in the world when it opened and the first cantilever built in America.
A Union supply depot became the third largest recruiting centre for Black troops in the country, about ten thousand enlisted, and enlistment was the only legal route to freedom in a slave state exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation.