Headquarted in Mbale, Uganda The Mbale Schools Brass Band is made up of over 500 students in eleven bands throughout Uganda.

 

Students are given an instrument, music, a uniform and instruction. Students attend rehearsals at Uganda's only dedicated performing arts center for youth.

 

Starting in an overgrown field eight years ago, director Philip Monk has now grown the program into the most wildly popular and most viewed brass band in the world. 

These days the band is directed by Ugandans trained in conducting and band leadership. This will ensure the sustainability of the program for decades to come. 

 

The band plays traditional European brass music as well as contemporary arrangments that appeal to the youth in the program.

 

Many of the band's members are students in trade schools in Mbale and have been able to transfer the skills and dedication they learned from being in the band into the workplace.

 

The moto of this band is "Developing Youth Through Music". With your help we can make that a reality for so many young people in Uganda.