Shyam Brass Band or more popularly known as Shyam Band, established in 1971 by our founder Late Shri. Ishwari Prasad. Shyam Band is one of India’s finest authentic and first internationally acclaimed brass band specialized in performing processions at festivals, weddings, and other high profile events. The band group is as big as 150 musicians consisting of musicians from a variety of musical backgrounds, and play a range of instruments including, trumpets, trombones, saxophones, clarinets, dhol & other traditional Indian style leather/fiber based rhythm instruments and percussions.

The concept behind the band is based on traditional brass bands from the Indian sub-continent which are an integral part of the Indian culture and play an essential role at any high profile event such as Indian weddings, religious festivals, social events of importance and even jazz festivals, they are regularly seen marching through the towns and villages dressed in their unique eye-catching outfits.

Typically the brass bands in Indian sub-continent perform in weddings processions, of bridegroom and his guests, towards the wedding venue to go onto introduce them to the bride family, the procession is called a “Baraat”. The Indian weddings are a grand & colourfull occasion with hundreds of guests dancing on the band music. It is a privilege to mention that the presence & performance of Shyam Band in these weddings are considered a prestige due to our sheer quality performance and guarantee to get the guests up and dancing.

The earlier wedding bands consisted of instruments like the Shahnai (a double reed instrument) alongside percussion instruments but these days this has changed to the use of the clarinet alongside brass instruments such as trumpets, saxophone and sousaphone.

Our band is a strong 150-piece brass band which can vary in size depending on the clients budget and requirement, usually it would have between 20-30 members in a sub-set or even more. The band usually consists of a leader (the main musician) accompanied by other regular musicians, together with various session musicians.

Shyam Band is functioning under the leadership of Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Manoj Ishwari Prasad.

Mr. Manoj is a registered & affiliated "A class" musician with All India Radio and also bagged an award of the youngest Saxophone player at the age of 14 years. Mr. Ashok Kumar carries with himself an extraordinary experience of about 18 years of performing band music. They both have provided a new dimension to the band activities and diversified into various other musical activities such as musical concerts, fusion music etc. while retaining our unique identity of performing Indian Classical, Folk, Semi-Classical, Rock, Fusion Music, Western and all other forms of music without the help of any musical notations/guides. Their thorough knowledge of their own musical tradition and occidental experience, allows them to choose a wild repertoire from Indian traditional music to popular songs of Indian movies. They added the sophisticated structures of Indian classical music to deliver an unexpected performance. Although the Brass Band culture is inherited from the British during their rule over India but we are able to maintain the Indian Version of Performing the Band Music.