Tour Scotland Video Criterion Brass Band Festival Carnival Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Criterion Brass Band at the Festival Carnival in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Criterion Brass Band are the Best New Orleans Style Brass Band in Scotland. The tradition of brass bands in New Orleans, Louisiana dates to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Traditionally, New Orleans brass bands could feature various instrumentations, often including trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxophones, sousaphones and percussion. The music played by these groups was often a fusion between European styled military band music and African folk music brought to the Americas by west African slaves and the idiom played a significant role in the development of traditional jazz. Early brass bands include the Eureka Brass Band, the Onward Brass Band, the Excelsior Brass Band, the Tuxedo Brass Band, the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, the Camelia Brass Band, and the Olympia Brass Band.

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