The Rebirth Brass Band some years ago played at a festival in Edmonton, Alberta. They are superb as promoters of New Orleans style band music.

A comprehensive history of band music in the U. S., I think, is yet to be written. Any place a few musicians got together seemed to breed a brass band. The mid to late 19th c. saw many types of bands, from those on the British style, to the German and central European type, to those of Spain and Mexico in the southwest, and the European-based but Hawaiian-influenced Royal Band in Honolulu.
Sunday band music in the square or plaza or park was a fixture in many places.

Brass band instruments themselves have evolved; several types used in the mid-19th c. are now no longer used; new types have evolved.

The brass band in Dodge City, Kansas, in the cattle drive days, was known over a wide area, playing as a marching band and at dances.
During the Civil War, many bands played marching, concert and dance music.

Many of these bands reflected the population from which they were drawn; the Moravians seemed to have a band in each of their communities. One of these, from Wachovia, North Carolina, enlisted with the Confederacy, played at the Battle of Gettysburg. Their music books, with much hand notation, have been preserved.