North Country Heritage Awards
North Country Heritage Awards celebrate the people and places that make the North Country special. TAUNY is a nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing the folk culture and living traditions of New York's North Country. Learn more about TAUNY here.
TAUNY and North Country Public Radio collaborated to create this profile of the Norwood Brass Firemen of Norwood, NY, a community group that has been making music in the North Country since the turn of the 20th century. Varying over the years from eight to 24 members, the Norwood Brass Firemen have played at everything from local celebrations in the North Country to presidential inaugurations and the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The piece includes a series of interviews and examples of the group's music, which consists largely of old standards, patriotic and jazz favorites, often in Dixieland style.