Musician and educator, Adam Arnold talks to us about brass bands in Richmond. We find some uncanny parallels between Adam's current bands and the Richmond Boys Brass Band started a hundred years earlier.
Trove
'50 Years Since he Led First Band', Bairnsdale Advertiser and East Gippsland Stock and Station Journal, 16 March 1953
'Richmond Boys Brass Band to make Debut', Richmond Guardian, 12 January 1918
'City Reserve Not Available for Performances', Richmond Guardian, 1 March 1919
'Monopoly at the Band Room', Richmond Guardian, 1 March 1919
Adam Arnold
Compositions, Brolga Music
Funk Buddies
RWPS Brass Band
Other
Latrobe Federal Band - oldest band in Australia
Tim Jones, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Bobby Shew, National Jazz Archive
Engineering Music Society
'Women in brass bands', Jeremy de Kourt
Band Blasts from the Past, Jeremy de Kourt
Gunnedah Shire Band
Sydney City Brass
'Adolphe Sax', Time, Lily Rotham