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Advert: Durham International Festival

There is going to be plenty of brilliant brass on offer at the Durham International Festival in July.

Tony Griffiths
 

The official website for one of Europe's largest celebrations of brass music has gone live this week at www.brassfestival.co.uk

Embracing

The festival, in its 5th year, is embracing technology as the colourful and informative online portal provides people with everything they'd ever need to know about Brass: Durham International Festival.

Lively

BRASS will serve up a lively mixture of international concerts, outdoor events, workshops and exciting one-off music collaborations.

This year's County Durham-wide celebration takes place between 1st-17th July with performers flocking to the North East from as far afield as France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Romania, and USA.

BRASS will serve up a lively mixture of international concerts, outdoor events, workshops and exciting one-off music collaborationsDurham Festival

Revamped

One person who's definitely going to be surfing the newly revamped BRASS website is musician Norman Kennedy.

The 60-year old photocopier engineer has played Bass trombone for Pittington Brass for the past six years.

Norman has lived in Chester-le-Street with wife Bette for over seventeen years and they have two grown up married sons.

Norman's favourite type of brass music is from the Salvation Army repertoire.

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