Welcome
Welcome to the St. James’s Brass and Reed Band website – the oldest band in Ireland and possibly Europe. Officially established in 1800 but early records trace back to as far as 1737.
St. James’s Band has participated in numerous events of historic importance, which included playing at the meetings of Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell. The band was invited to play at Parnell’s home in Avondale and later led his funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery. You can read more about the band on our history page.
St. James’s Band boasts a vast musical repertoire that ranges from overtures, selections, marches, and some of the most current popular tunes. View our upcoming performances.
If you are interested in learning an instrument or would like to join the band explore our JD Academy Band and New Members pages for more details. If you would like to hire the band get in touch.
Our conductor Kevin Corcoran is an acclaimed ensemble and solo percussionist with experience in classical, band and stage performances. In recent years he has begun the transition to conducting. Read more about Kevin here.
Next performances
Here are our next performances. Get in touch if you would like to hire us for your event.
Our JD Academy will play in The Square Shopping Centre on the 20th December at 7pm. All welcome.
The band are delighted to perform at this year's St. Michael's Church Christmas Concert. Not to be missed. The evening promises to be packed full of talented local performers. All welcome.
Join the band as we perform our Christmas programme in Newbridge Shopping Centre from 11am on the 8th December. All welcome!
Social updates
If you have any questions you can connect with us on our social networks.
We are so proud of each section of the band in this piece, and especially proud of our percussion section for an incredible solo. First up was Ollie on the kit, and then Virginia, Shiori, Kieran and Sean joined with some impressive performances. 🥁🪇🪘 (keeping watching to relive it!) It was so much fun to play, thank you to Kevin for encouraging us all to stand and perform in our sections and for the time spent making this piece even more fun to play!!Thank you Declan for capturing all of our pieces on camera, it is so appreciated and so nice to be able to watch them back 💙
Saint James's Brass & Reed Band - Funk Attack
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Funk Attack performed by Saint James's Brass & Reed Band at the Sou...
A lively circus march full of energy, excitement and plenty of fast playing to kick off our programme. It was such a fun piece to perform and a great way to start our competition set!🎥 Huge thanks to Declan for capturing all of our performances for us.
Saint James's Brass & Reed Band - The Circus Bee
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The Circus Bee Performed by Saint James's Brass & Reed Band at the ...
Amazing solos by both Michael on the trumpet 🎺 and then Eva on the flute 🪈 , as well as a saxophone quartet near the beginning 🎷.A wonderful, varried bossa nova style piece that we loved playing! Thank you so much to our conductor Kevin for guiding us through this over the past few months , and for Declan for capturing this for us 🎥
Saint James's Brass & Reed Band - Fly Me To The Moon
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Fly Me To The Moon performed by Saint James's Brass & Reed Band at ...