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Classy Brass in the park (circa 2017)
"We wanted to start an ensemble. It was just fun to - hey, why not just be girls?....
We have fun playing, and that's why we do it, because it's fun."
    
  - Tine Thing Helspeth of tenThing
Think pieces
  • The founders of all-female brass bands
  • Boys play trumpet and girls play flute, but why? 
  • Let's change the 'girls play flute, boys bash drums' stereotypes
  • Women of brass: how Stiletto Brass is tearing down 'the invisible curtain'
  • With That's What She Said, Canadian women brass players start something new

Interesting reads
  • From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall - Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, by Maria Noriega Rachwal (Second Story Press, 2015)
  • Holman, Gavin. (2018). Women and Brass: The Female Brass Bands of the 19th and 20th Centuries (a compendium - pdf)

Notable women's brass quintets/ensembles around the world
  • Belle Air Brass (U.S.)
  • Brassessoires Damenbrassquintett (Austria) (hear their version of  Alte Kameraden)
  • Calliope Brass (U.S.)
  • Frauenblasorchester Berlin (Germany) [view trailer]
  • Monarch Brass (U.S.)
  • quinTTTonic (Austria)
  • Seraph Brass (U.S.)
  • Stiletto Brass (U.S.)
  • tenThing (enjoy this intro to tenThing from Norway)
  • Trinity Girls Brass Band (U.K.)

Notable female marching bands
  • Helsingør Pigegarde - Elsinore Girls Marching Band (Denmark)
  • Tachibana SHS Band (Japan)

Organizations & web resources
  • Adkins Chiti: Women in Music Foundation
  • Association of Canadian Women Composers
  • Brass Chicks - A Place for Women Who Kick Brass
  • Canadian Women's Brass Collective
  • International Alliance for Women in Music
  • International Women's Brass Conference
  • Last Row Music
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