11 Apr 2025
BBC Radio 2 Loves Brass
with Marti Pellow and Carly Paoli
Join us for a night showcasing the range of brass music - hosted by Zoe Ball.
- Wheelchair user access
Marti Pellow and Carly Paoli join the Black Dyke Band, host Zoe Ball and special guests as we kick off The Big Brass Blowout.
Take a trip from Bond themes to bhangra beats in the company of Bradford’s mighty Black Dyke Band, chart-topping pop legend Marti Pellow, star soprano Carly Paoli, Punjabi Roots Academy and Bradford Cathedral Choir – and your host, BBC’s Zoe Ball. BBC Radio 2 Loves Brass is the opening concert in The Big Brass Blowout, Bradford 2025’s weekend-long festival of all things big, brassy and Bradford.
Alongside classic songs by the likes of Joni Mitchell and Wet Wet Wet, you’ll hear operatic arias and bhangra beats, powerful ballads and hymns, song settings by local lad and world-famous composer Frederick Delius – plus a new commission from Peter Graham, one of today’s leading brass band writers, that celebrates Bradford’s 19th-century ties with the ‘New World’ across the Atlantic. Top class brass.
This concert is being recorded for transmission on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.
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