About the Foothills Brass Band

Welcome to the Foothills Brass Band website. This group has come together through the vision and hard work of Dr. Arthur Haecker and others in the Upstate music community. In the fall of 2022, Dr. Haecker began recruiting players for this new ensemble. We held an organizational meeting in January of 2023 and over 30 people came out. Our first concert was in May of 2023 and we have just completed our second full season, performing concerts in Spartanburg, Greenville, Newberry, and Central, SC. Some of our members are members of one or more local orchestras, including the Spartanburg Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, and many other regional orchestras in the area. Many of our members are music educators, from the elementary to the college level. Others are music students and a few are dedicated hobbyists who just love to play. All were brought together by the challenge of playing brass band music. The brass band format provides the opportunity to play very challenging repertoire, as parts that would be given to strings or woodwinds in other groups must be played by brass players.