The popular Ironbridge Gorge Brass Band Festival will take place over the weekend of the 14th and 15th July.

Largest

Now in its eighth year, the free family event showcases brass bands from Shropshire and the surrounding counties and is described as the largest, non-competitive brass band festival in the country.

This year the event will be taking part in the ‘Brass the Baton’ project and will feature performances from 19 bands including Scottish Open champion Tongwynlais Temperance as well as Jaguar Land Rover, Jackfield Elcock Reisen and a host of local bands such as Wem Jubilee, Cleobury Mortimer, Porthywaen Silver and City of Wolverhampton.

The Festival looks like being even bigger and better this year and we’re delighted to be playing our part in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad tooFestival Secretary, Susan Palmer

Bigger and better

Susan Palmer, Festival Secretary, told 4BR: "The Festival looks like being even bigger and better this year and we’re delighted to be playing our part in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad too."

Admission to the daytime festivals is free and it takes place in a beautiful setting on the Green at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron and Enginuity, one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust’s ten award-winning museums in the area.

More information

Throughout the two days, brass bands take to the stage, performing to 4,000 people over the course of the weekend.

For more information about the festival visit:
www.ironbridgebandfestival.co.uk