South Hill Park is located near downtown Burlington, Iowa, between South Sixth and South Seventh Streets, and between Aetna and Elm Streets, North Latitude 40 degrees, 48 minutes, 23.09 seconds, West Longitude 91 degrees, 6 minutes, 27.3 seconds.
While the South Hill Brass does not confine itself to any particular geographic area, most of our performances occur in the general vicinity of Burlington, Iowa. As a service for those of you considering attending South Hill Brass performances, we now offer updated weather information for this area, and any other area YOU select. (Please be advised that the weather forecast is provided by sources other than the South Hill Brass, and, as with most weather forecasts, carries no guarantee...)
The South Hill Brass is still trying to absorb the shocking news that our original "flagship" event -- the "Top o' the Town Festival" at Burlington's South Hill Park-- has been discontinued as of 2008. The event was held on the first Sunday of October for fifteen years. The South Hill Brass was originally formed for the FIRST "Top o' the Town Festival," so it has always been sort of a homecoming for us, and a fun day for everyone. We continue to mull our options, and have not given up on still playing there ourselves some fall Sunday. Here is a rare photo of the South Hill Brass in action at the 2002 Top o' the Town Festival:
We have no other definitely-scheduled performances at this point, but that does not mean we will not HAVE more gigs, and they might be sooner rather than later. We like to strike without warning. I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition ...
Those intimately familiar with the habits of the South Hill Brass realize that we often have a few performances leading up to Christmas, and then, like the wiley groundhog, tend to hibernate through the coldest part of the Iowa winter, usually not performing at all in the months of January or February, and sometimes not bursting forth until April or May.
Our first 2023 performance will be at Matt's Greenhouse on the Mississippi outside of the Fareway Grocery Store in Fort Madison, Iowa (1820 Avenue H), on Friday, May 12, 2023. The South Hill Brass is scheduled to perform from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, but there will be a number of special events and offers at both Matt's Greenhouse and the Fareway Store that day. NOTE: Some of the events, including our performance, are subject to cancellation in the case of bad weather.
Since the end of the "Top o' the Town Festival," we have a new fall event, the annual Red Flag Horseless Carriage Tour in New London, Iowa. This is a really cool event that we have attended every single year since its inception in 2012, and you should attend, too. The tour is actually a multi-day, multi-city event, but The South Hill Brass generally performs on Saturday morning at the New London town square (this year the date will be September 30, 2023).
The following Friday -- May 19, 2023 -- we will have a similar 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM performance, but this one will be at Matt's Greenhouse outside of the BURLINGTON Fareway Grocery Store (920 Lawrence Drive). We hope to see you at one or both Matt's Greenhouse performances!
In 2022, four-fifths of The South Hill Brass played for every single Burlington docking of the new Viking riverboat. We do not yet have such plans for this season.
