NEWS
Future All-Stars Weekend 2025
The New York Staff Band welcomes you to audition for Future All-Stars Weekend, March 14-16, 2025. Future All-Stars is intended for Salvationist musicians aged 13 to 21 and will consist [...]
Fall Festival 2024
Fall Festival with the New York Staff Band and Imperial Brass - October 19, 2024 - 7:00pm - At the Salvation Army Montclair Citadel - 13 Trinity Place - [...]
The Invitation – New NYSB album available now!
For nearly 140 years, the New York Staff Band has been an indispensable pillar of ministry within the USA Eastern Territory and beyond. Throughout our illustrious history, our music [...]
2024 OOB Camp Meetings and Pier Ministry
Come and hear the NYSB and ETSS in concert at the Old Orchard Beach Camp Meetings and Pier Ministry on the following dates: •Friday, July 26 at OOB Corps [...]
Report: Commissioning Weekend
JUNE 7-9, 2024 – The USA East Commissioning 2024 weekend saw the largest number of attendees in recent years as salvationists from around the territory gathered at the Hershey [...]
Report: 41st Nassau County Youth Enrichment Benefit Concert
May 1, 2024 – One of the long-standing traditions of the New York Staff Band is visiting the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, NY on Long Island [...]
ABOUT NYSB
The New York Staff Band represents the finest in Christian brass band performance. Holding the distinction of being the first ‘staff band’ in Salvation Army [SA] music history, the NYSB meets the challenge of maintaining the highest standards of musical practice and Christian ministry expected of such a model group. When the band released its first 33-rpm ‘long play’ [LP] back in 1957 under Staff Bandmaster Richard Holz, it was heralded as ‘America’s Foremost Brass Band.’ The liner notes stated boldly: “From the ‘greatest city in the world’ comes one of the greatest bands of the world. The description of the band by a leading New York music critic over 70 years ago–“amateur musicians who play like professionals”–can easily be underscored and endorsed in the second decade of the 21st century. The NYSB has been and continues to be a trailblazer in SA and brass band music making.
