Would you like to support Youth and spread the love of brass street band music? Do you want to empower youth to be active in their communities?

We are seeking brass musicians to teach, mentor and support high school music students this spring as part of our Artist Residency partnership with MacPhail Center for Music’s and Minneapolis Public Schools. This is a paid position with a commitment of 20 hours of service including teacher workshops, early school-day classroom teaching, and a festival performance.

If you’d like to learn more about the dates/times and get involved, please complete the Young Brass sign-up form here!

The MacPhail Young Brass Solidarity Artist Residency will develop and deliver an Active Curriculum that centers:

  • Learning by ear
  • The history of music in activism
  • Leadership skills
  • The ability to have racial, gender and social justice conversations.

The workshops conclude with participation in the inaugural MINNE-HONK and the May Day Parade.

You can learn more about MacPhail Center for Music’s Artist in Residency program on their website. https://www.macphail.org/music-education-project-amplify/

Residency Artists will be expected to:

  • Work collaboratively as a teaching corp to shape students’ experience.
  • Help form a new activist street band at each school
  • Teach a chapter from “BrassRoots Democracy”
  • Share their personal experience with justice movements

BRASS SOLIDARITY is a 2025 MacPhail School for Music resident community artist at South High and Roosevelt High school culminating in participation in the MayDay parade with Brass Solidarity.

YOUNG BRASS SOLIDARITY workshops are designed to help young people start their own activist street bands in their communities.

BRASS SOLIDARITY, led by cofounder BUTCHY AUSTIN, is built out of the tradition of resilience and community fortitude through music, born after the death of George Floyd in order to use music as a call for racial justice. KRISTEN FROEBEL is a cofounder of Brass Solidarity, a musician, educator and Active Curriculum designer.

* Each One Teach One *