{"id":234392,"date":"2026-05-17T06:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:43:34","slug":"indian-queens-brass-band-at-heart-of-village-marks-170-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234392\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Queens brass band at &#8216;heart of village&#8217; marks 170 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We have members of the public visiting our rehearsals to listen, and it&#8217;s hugely important tradition to keep alive for generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnes-Collier now leads the band at the age of just 19, making him younger than nearly all the players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge honour and a huge passion of mine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being younger than most of the players in the band can pose its challenges, but we are united in our love of music in our band family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the brass banding world we help grow and develop each other as both players, and as people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the band started, its five members undertook their first public engagement knowing only three tunes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnes-Collier said: &#8220;They played the pieces on loop&#8230; you&#8217;ll note our repertoire has grown considerably since then.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;We have members of the public visiting our rehearsals to listen, and it&#8217;s hugely important tradition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-234392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}