Kick off the season with PBB at our 2nd Annual Chamber Concert! Selections include music in various styles by Bernstein, Holst, Messiaen, and more. This promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music at Middlebush Reformed Church, and your donations benefit a wonderful cause, the Franklin High School band program.

Franklin High School is the primary rehearsal site for PBB and PYBB, and houses a strong program of high schoolers under the leadership of our very own Principal Cornet, Dan Berz. Between FHS students, PYBB students, and PBB adults, the percussion instruments take quite a beating and are expensive to repair, maintain, and replace. As part of our long-standing partnership, PBB has chosen to donate all proceeds from this concert toward the rehabilitation of items in FHS’s percussion section.

Admission is free, but donations of any amount are highly encouraged for this benefit concert.

If you need any gifts for the brass band fans in your life, be sure to stop by our merch table.

Join PBB on the road as we take the stage at the Gettysburg Brass Band Festival! This multi-day festival features 19 bands performing entertaining sets in the beautiful outdoors.

We are thrilled to collaborate with our friends at Old Hights Brewing Company in Hightstown, NJ as part of their donation beer program! On June 13th, The Beer of the Dragon, an English Style Bitter, will be released both on tap and in cans and we will be holding an all-day, open to the public release party! Join us for festivities, merchandise, food, and a special fanfare performance by PBB members at 2 pm!

A portion of proceeds from all sales of this beer will be donated to PBB. Find out more about this fantastic brewery at https://www.oldhightsbrewingcompany.com

The Beer of the Dragon is named after PBB's 2023 award-winning performance of The Year of the Dragon by Philip Sparke. Cheers to making music with friends. Raise a glass to our band motto: Resurgam!

Join PBB as we celebrate Pride Month in partnership with the East Brunswick Arts Commission! This concert is comprised of music composed and inspired by members of the LGBTQIA+ community in solidarity and celebration of Pride Month. This FREE concert is sure to be one of the highlights of our season!

Join PBB at Middlebush Reformed Church for our spring pops concert in collaboration with the Princeton Youth Brass Band. We will also be featuring our Youth Solo Competition winner, Ishan Nandi, performing Gallop from The Comedians by Dmitri Kabalevsky on xylophone accompanied by PBB! This promises to be a great afternoon of music-making!

PBB is back at St. David’s with one last chance to hear us before we head off to compete at NABBA Championships! We will be featuring both of the pieces with which we will be competing. PBB will also be joined by the Princeton Youth Brass Band!

The first step in our contesting season: PBB heads to Rowan University for the Mid-Atlantic Brass Band Festival (MABBF) to perform our test pieces, followed by coachings from some of the world’s greatest brass band musicians!

PBB Returns to Princeton’s wonderful Richardson Auditorium alongside our friends Eastern Wind Symphony, in a shared holiday program that promises to be a great afternoon of music in an amazing space!

 Click HERE to purchase tickets at the advance sale price of $15 for General Admission through Dec.20.  Tickets will also be available at the box office on the day of the performance for $20.

Tickets purchased online by noon on Saturday, Dec. 20 may be purchased at the presale price of $15 by using the code FLASH15 (case sensitive).  Tickets will be available at the box office on the day of the performance for $20.

For online purchases, please note that you will need to sign in to purchase tickets.  The box office site has been updated in the past year, so you may need to recreate a login, even if you have purchased tickets from Princeton University previously.

Join Princeton Brass Band on Sunday, December 14th at St. David’s Episcopal Church for the second of our three holiday concerts this season! We will be presenting arrangements of familiar holiday favorites including soloists from within the band. Admission is free, but donations are always welcomed to help us continue to bring great brass band music to our area!

If you need any gifts for the brass band fans in your life, be sure to stop by our merch table for some great gift ideas!

To learn more about this and our other upcoming shows, be sure to follow us on our social media pages

Join Princeton Brass Band on Sunday, December 7th at Middlebush Reformed Church for the first of three holiday concerts this season! We will be presenting arrangements of familiar holiday favorites including soloists from within the band. Admission is free, but donations are always welcomed to help us continue to bring great brass band music to our area!

If you need any gifts for the brass band fans in your life, be sure to stop by our merch table for some great gift ideas!

To learn more about this and our other upcoming shows, be sure to follow us on our social media pages

Join PBB at St. David’s in Cranbury for our third installment of Halloween Brass! Some spooky favorites and holiday themed tunes, and of course, a chance for us to show off our favorite costumes! Full program TBA!

Join PBB as we kick off our season in a new way! You’ll hear your favorite PBB musicians in a program of chamber music highlighting the individual sounds of each section, as well as mixed ensembles! This promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music at Middlebush Reformed Church, and your donations also benefit a wonderful cause, HOME of Somerset County.

HOME of Somerset County empowers at-risk families to achieve and maintain independence through strength-based case management services. Partnering with a network of religious congregations, government, business and community organizations, HOME: Provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, comprehensive case management and counseling while embracing the diversity and strengths of all individuals. To learn more, visit their website: https://www.homescnj.org/

Join the Princeton Brass Band as we go ‘on the road’ and return to the Gettysburg Brass Band festival! This multi-day festival brings together some of the top performing brass bands from throughout the region including our friends at Atlantic Brass Band and Chesapeake Brass Band among many others. You can find more info about GBBF here!

Join Princeton Brass Band before we head to compete at the North American Brass Band championships in Fort Wayne, IN! We’ll be showcasing our two works for the competition, Thierry Deleruyelle’s Crazy Twenties as well as our ‘Own Choice’ selection! We’ll also be joined by the Princeton Youth band under the direction of Max Morden! Be sure to join us for this wonderful afternoon of music and support two of your favorite brass bands!

Come catch PBB as we begin our competition season with a performance at the Mid Atlantic Brass Band festival! We’ll be sharing the weekend with 8 other fabulous brass bands from the region, in addition to a stellar lineup of guest artists! More specific information about our performance time will follow! For more information on the festival, head to: https://www.atlanticbrassband.net/mabbf

The third and final performance of the holiday season, our ‘Home for the Holidays’ concert, will feature a homecoming of sorts for our guest soloist, former PBB MD and solo euphonium player and current solo euphonium of the New York Staff Band, Aaron VanderWeele! This concert will also bring the band ‘home’ to Princeton, taking place at the gorgeous Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall at Princeton University.

To purchase tickets, click the link here or scan the QR code below or on the event flyer!

Our second holiday concert of the season, Holiday Brass II, takes place on Saturday, December 14th at St. David's Episcopal Church in Cranbury. This event will feature a variety of holiday classics, including duets and solos from members of the band, and an arrangement of a holiday classic for brass band by one of our members!

Admission is free and all are welcome, but donations are encouraged and always appreciated. There will also be other opportunities to support the band, with merchandise and holiday goodies for sale perfect for a PBB fan’s wish list.

Check your list, then check it twice, and make sure you can join us- that'll surely keep you off the 'naughty list'!

Our first concert of the holiday season, Holiday Brass I, takes place on Sunday, December 8th at 3PM at Middlebush Reformed Church in Somerset, NJ. This event will feature a variety of holiday classics, duets and solos from members of the band, and the premiere of a brand new arrangement for brass band by one of our members!

Admission is free and all are welcome, but donations are encouraged and always appreciated. There will also be other opportunities to support the band, with merchandise and holiday goodies for sale perfect for a PBB fan’s wish list.

Don’t miss this opportunity to watch PBB “sleigh” your holiday favorites- “yule” surely regret it !

FIRST CONCERT OF THE SEASON!

Join PBB as we welcome in a new season with our new MD, Dr. Todd Nichols, and a selection of old classics and newer arrangements designed to showcase the variety and excitement of our repertoire. Admission is FREE, though donations are encouraged and appreciated.

Stay tuned for more details about the program, and mark your calendars for the 29th! We’re dancing with excitement and hope you are too .

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Please join us in supporting the Princeton Youth Brass Band in their spring concert! These kids have been working hard to prepare their wonderful program, consisting of works by Malcolm Arnold, Paul Lovatt-Cooper, Paul McCartney and More!

The Princeton Brass Band are very excited to perform for the first time at the Gettysburg Brass Band Festival in a little under a month! This multi-day festival brings together some of the top performing brass bands from throughout the region including our friends at Atlantic Brass Band and Chesapeake Brass Band among many others. You can find more info about GBBF here!

Join us on Mother’s Day, May 12th at Middlebush Reformed Church for a wonderful afternoon of brass band favorites: Everything from Bizet to Walton! Hear our superb soloists from within the band and come out to support our youth brass band, who will open the show for us! Admission is free and open to all!

Please join us for our NABBA send off concert! We will be performing the two works that we will be competing with in April, including Oliver Waespi’s brilliant Other Lives, based on music from Schubert’s Der Doppelganger. This concert is free and open to all, donations gratefully accepted!

Come catch PBB as we begin our competition season with a performance at the Mid Atlantic Brass Band festival! We’ll be sharing the weekend with 8 other fabulous brass bands from the region, in addition to a stellar lineup of guest artists!

The Princeton Brass Band returns to Richardson Auditorium for it’s annual holiday show. We are excited to feature David Krauss, Principal Trumpet of The Metropolitan opera as our guest soloist this year. Closing out a successful 2023 season that saw the band win the First Section of the North American Brass Band Championships, the Princeton Brass Band thrills audiences with riveting and emotional music written for the British-style brass band. Come hear holiday favorites and moving solos played by this amazing ensemble of 30 brass and percussion players. Get your tickets HERE