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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