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)

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
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

Find the Facebook event here

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

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, and 2023 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.