2 hours of radio with a wide variation of brass and street music from all over the world selected by volunteers of the Star and Shadow or people who want to make their special contribution.

This week the programme will be put together by musician Ken Patterson who started the Heaton People's Band Project in Chillingham Rd School in 1985, the start of a number of streetband, community bands and steelbands in the North East with ongoing Heaton young talent like Jack Courtney working nationally with The Brass Funkeys.

He will look at the history of Newcastle's streetband scene with memories of the The Stumbling Band, Pineapple Agogo, and Tenth Avenue Band centred around National Streetband Festivals, The North Shields Fish Quay Festivals, The National Garden Festival in Gateshead of 1990, to meeting European bands on trips to France, Germany and beyond. Welfare State International’s work with community projects are described by Dan Fox and Pete Moser, The political and radical bands from the 1980s onward are remembered by Dave Gill, Rachel Richman, Will Embliss and Mark Allen.

And up to present thoughts considering the current global scene, and more recent local bands including Meze Mundo’s lockdown music, Chilli Rd Band, Jazzy B, and Jazz in My Pants.

The musical influences upon this on-going scene are wide and varied and we will hear musical requests from others involved in the streetband scene including Eastern European Brass, New Orleans, S. Africa, Latin beats including Cumbia.