A question for the history buffs
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:37 am
St James's Brass & Reed Band from Mount Brown in Dublin are celebrating 275 years of music making this year.
This set me to wondering if the band is as I have heard from my fellow members one of the oldest private bands in Ireland or the UK.(or maybe Europe)
By private I mean non state sponsored or military in origin.
Can anybody confirm the claim or does anybody belong to an older band?
This set me to wondering if the band is as I have heard from my fellow members one of the oldest private bands in Ireland or the UK.(or maybe Europe)
By private I mean non state sponsored or military in origin.
Can anybody confirm the claim or does anybody belong to an older band?