Brasswick 2025
New York City's premier music festival for brass bands and brassy music returns to Industry City on Saturday, September 13th! Join us at the Bandshell in Courtyard 1/2 for a day filled with music and fun.
Hosted and headlined by Brooklyn's own L Train Brass Band, this year's festival will include the acclaimed Funky Dawgz Brass Band from Connecticut, the funk-rock sounds of Summer Fling, New York City’s own NYChillharmonic, the saxophone stylings of Big Blitz!
We’ll wrap up the night with a NOLA-style Jam Session following L Train’s set. Open to all musicians! Bring your horn, drum, or whatever else makes noise. All skill levels are welcome!
Doors open at 1:30 PM. Show runs from 2:30 – 7:30 PM.
Tickets are $25 at the door. Save $5 by buying in advance online! Kids (under 12) enter for free with a ticketed adult.
Meet the bands
THE FUNKY DAWGZ
The Funky Dawgz are one of the premier touring acts on the live music scene today. It is impossible not to enjoy yourself during a show; they play a contagious upbeat mix of original music, hip hop, funk, and today’s top hits with a brass twist.
Emerging from Connecticut, they have toured internationally and have been featured in all corners of the live music scene. From playing sold out shows at Madison Square Garden as the horn section for Dispatch, to Okeechobee, to closing out The Peach Music Festival, there ain’t no party like a Funky Dawgz party, ‘cus a Funky Dawgz party don’t stop! (Instagram)
The NYChillharmonic
The NYChillharmonic is a female-fronted, Brooklyn-based, 18 piece progressive-rock orchestra. The music fuses multiple genres including rock, pop, and jazz, which ultimately creates an ensemble sound that acknowledges the tradition of jazz as much as it sonically embraces experimental textures, arrangements, and harmonies. (Instagram)
BIG BLITZ
Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, Big Blitz combines dance, jazz, rock, and electronic musical influences to create their own dynamic sound. Brothers Lucas Ciesielski (Tenor Sax, Bari Sax) and Mason Ciesielski (Tenor Sax, Bass Sax, Synthesizers) unite with drummer Nick Grabigel to forge their unique, infectious style. (Instagram)
SUMMER FLING
Summer Fling is a high-energy funk-rock band hailing from NYC led by charismatic vocalist Eddie Kam. Its seven members are recently graduated jazz musicians who discovered their unique sound by transitioning from traditional standards to funk and indie-pop vibes. Summer Fling's mission? To deliver an unforgettable show while spreading heartfelt music of love, inclusivity, and electrifying horn solos. (Instagram)
The L Train Brass Band
Originally founded in a Brooklyn basement in 2017, L Train is now New York’s largest brass band. An ever-growing community with 100+ brass, reed, and percussion musicians, the band performs every year in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Manhattan’s Pride March and Village Halloween Parade, at our music festival, Brasswick, in New Orleans, and at dozens of other incredible events. Featured in The New York Times, Vogue, on the Today show, and more, the L Train Brass Band is a staple of the New York community.
Tickets are $25 at the door. Save $5 by buying in advance online! Kids (under 12) enter for free with a ticketed adult.
How to get here
Brasswick is located at the Industry City Bandshell in Courtyard 1/2.
Take the D, N, R lines to 36th street station in Brooklyn and walk west one block to Industry City. 2 stops from Manhattan.
From Long Island, take the LIRR to Atlantic Terminal then take the D, N, or R train from Atlantic Terminal to 36th Street! It's 8 minutes on the subway.
The Brasswick Story
Music. Community. Growth.
Brasswick is an annual urban music festival showcasing the talent of the ever-growing and vibrant brass band scene in the New York City area. The festival originated in a humble garden in Bushwick and has sprouted in different communities throughout Brooklyn. Now in its seventh year, the festival’s main event has taken root in Sunset Park at the historic Industry City, with additional pop-up performances across parks in Brooklyn in the weeks before the festival!
Previous Brasswick Events
Brasswick 2024 —
Saturday September 14
Doors 3pm // Show 4-9pm // Open Jam 9:30pm
Industry City Bandshell (Courtyard 1/2)
Tickets
$15 pre-sale (get your tickets here), $20 at the door (cash/Venmo).
All proceeds go directly toward supporting the festival and paying the bands.
Kids (under 18) enter for free with a ticketed adult.
Event schedule
3pm: doors open, featuring the HONK NYC! craft table for kids
4pm: live music, featuring five brass bands
4pm: Unicorn Brass Band
6:10pm: The Brighton Beat
7:15pm: Kaleta & Super Yamba Band
8:15pm: L Train Brass Band closes the show!
End the night with a NOLA-style Jam Session open to all musicians at 9:30pm. Bring your horn, drum, or whatever else makes noise. All skill levels welcome!
BRASSWICK 2023
Our fifth year included new festival elements including: pop-up park performances leading up to the mainstage event, special pre-show Family Hours with HONK NYC and Rock and Roll Playhouse, and an open brass jam during the after-party!
Brasswick 2023
Saturday, August 26th
Doors 3 PM // Bands 4 - 9 PM
Industry City Bandshell (Courtyard 1/2), Brooklyn NY
3pm Doors
4pm - 9pm Music by 5 brass bands
Variety of food/drink available for purchase (hours vary by vendor)
SCHEDULE
Special intro by 3rd Rail Drumline
4PM - HONK Family Band
5PM - Lowdown Brass Band
6PM - Kid Brass
7PM - Las Mariquitas
8PM - L Train Brass Band
9PM - After-party Jam at Big aLICe Brewing
(Musicians from all playing levels and walks of life are invited to bring their horn and honk with us! Song list will mostly consist of NOLA traditional tunes)
BRASSWICK 2022
The fourth annual Brasswick was the best yet!
Brasswick 2022
Saturday, September 10
Doors 3 PM // Bands 4 - 9 PM
Industry City Bandshell (Courtyard 1/2), Brooklyn NY
Suggested donation at the door
Buy pre-sale tickets for free Brasswick merch!
Pre-sale tickets available HERE
3pm Doors
4pm - 9pm Music by 5 local brass bands
Variety of food/drink available for purchase (hours vary by vendor)
SCHEDULE
3pm Doors
4PM - Sugartone Brass Band
5PM - The Villagers Brass Band
6PM - New Heights Brass Band
7PM - Night of the Living Funk
8PM - L Train Brass Band with a special intro by 3rd Rail Drumline
After party at Big aLICe Brewing!
BRASSWICK 2021
BRASSWICK 2021
Saturday, October 16
The Yard at 3 Dollar Bill
260 Meserole St, BK
SCHEDULE
4pm Doors
5pm L Train Brass Band // NY
6pm Dingonek Street Band // NY
7pm No Small Money Brass Band // NY
8pm Nation Beat // NY
9pm Guerrilla Fanfare // CO
Food for purchase by @_EmpressEats
Proceeds from this event will be donated to Feed the Second Line-- a non-profit supporting the culture creators of New Orleans to help fortify and preserve NOLA’s amazing + vibrant culture.
$10 suggested donation at the door (pay-what-you can: cash, Venmo, PayPal accepted).
PRE-SALE TICKETS at bit.ly/brasswick21-tix
BRASSWICK 2020
BRASSWICK 2020 // 3-DAYS // 4 LOCATIONS
THU OCT 22 // 7-9P @ MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK
By the stage area in the middle of the park
7p – L Train Brass Band
8p – Shag Horns
FRI OCT 23 // 7-9P @ ALBEE SQUARE DT BK
7p – Flowmingos
8p – High & Mighty Brass Band
SAT OCT 24 // 11A-2P @ GRAND ARMY PLAZA
By the fountain & arch
11a – Brooklyn Delta Jazz Party
12p – Brass Queens
1p – Bone Apple Tea
SAT OCT 24 // 3-6P @ IRVING SQUARE PARK
3p – L Train Brass Band
4p – Fresh Cut Brass
5p – Hot Hand Band
BRASSWICK 2019
Music. Creation. Growth. Bushwick! Perhaps there’s no event more perfectly suited for our neighborhood’s post-industrial landscape than an urban brass band festival! The inaugural Brasswick in 2019 was the co-creation of community farmspace Good Life Garden and L Train Brass Band with an exciting lineup of horned heavy hitters from NYC’s diverse and eclectic street band scene (compensated from festival proceeds and local grants). After playing and dancing away the afternoon, the garden festivities segued into a full-on, NOLA-flavored second line processional across the neighborhood.
SCHEDULE
4pm The L Train Brass Band
5pm Brass Queens
6pm Hungry March Band
7pm Trumpet Marmalade
With the DJ stylings of ToniB NYC to keep you groovin’ throughout and Escalation Horns kicking off the after party at Queens Brewery at 9pm!
Good Life Garden is a 13,000-square-foot public garden open April to December that offers arts, culture, and education programming and addresses the socioeconomic needs of the community. Spearheaded by community activist and founder Kofi Thomas, the former derelict park was reclaimed, cleaned up, and cleared out in October 2017.
Brasswick 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 were sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.