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Radio: Listen to the Band

More music and chat from Frank Renton at the BBC...

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  More great music and chat from Frank Renton

More music and chat from Frank at the BBC

Listen to the Band: 22nd August

It's often said that it's the star players in the band world that make it what it is, and some of them are a bit special.

Tonight we feature some great players and their instruments who are not always at the forefront of everyone's mind, but are an essential part of the process nevertheless; including the bass trombone, the tenor and baritone horns and increasingly on today's scene, the human voice.

Listen to the Band: 29th August

Electronic artist and singer Hannah Peel has added the sound of a brass band to her latest CD Mary Cassio: Journey to Cassiopeia.

She tells Frank Renton about how her early days playing trombone in her local band first gave her a love for the brass sound and how she has used this in her music.

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