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Bold as Brass Podcast

Dec 18, 2022

A nosy trombonist (Melissa Brown) chats to fellow brass professionals about their careers, how they got there, and what music they'd happily put in the bin. In this episode legendary trumpet player Susan Slaughter tells us about standing up for herself as a woman in the brass field, what the pressures were like in her...


Dec 11, 2022

A nosy trombonist (Melissa Brown) chats to fellow brass professionals about their careers, how they got there, and what music they'd happily put in the bin. In this episode Josh Cirtina and Benny Vernon from the trombone quartet Slide Action join us to talk about creating a new voice for the trombone, about managing...


Dec 6, 2022

As most of you know, Bold as Brass Podcast was started in the lockdown of 2020 as a way to keep our host, Melissa, busy whilst a lot of her work was on pause.

We've had an incredible 2.5 years since then releasing episodes at least weekly, hosting panels, live interviews, travelling with the show to conferences, and...


Dec 4, 2022

A nosy trombonist (Melissa Brown) chats to fellow brass professionals about their careers, how they got there, and what music they'd happily put in the bin. In this episode commercial trumpet player and businessman Johnny Thirkell tells us about beginning his professional life as a pit miner, we hear about his studies...


Nov 27, 2022

A nosy trombonist (Melissa Brown) chats to fellow brass professionals about their careers, how they got there, and what music they'd happily put in the bin. In this episode trombonist Victoria Garcia tells us about receiving early influences from her musical family, about being an Alexander Technique teacher...