To ask why I felt emotional from brass band outside supermarket?

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Brass band playing outside the supermarket invoked a lump in my throat and feeling a bit emotional.

Why?

Anyone else?

talking not taking 🙄

Adopted Yorkshire lass here, gets me every time.

DH genuinely has tears in his eyes when he hears them.

I'm in a brass band and it made my day reading this thread. It's easy to forget it means so much to people when you're standing outside a supermarket freezing your tits off and playing the same carols for the 400th time this year haha.

Brass is best.🎷🎺

Yes, me too. I've no idea why as I have no emotional connection to brass bands. I get the same with bagpipes but I'm Scottish so it's kind of understandable.

It's probably something science based to do with frequencies or vibrations or some stuff I don't understand

Me too! There's always something about a brass band at Christmas that feels so festive and traditional.

Never fails for me.
Really evocative.

This thread has just brought back a memory from a good few years ago, close to Christmas and I heard what I thought was a brass band playing from my living room. Quiet residential area so was a bit miffed!
I ventured out to see where it was coming from (as did those from surrounding houses) There was a full on brass band playing on the green in a neighbouring street. And all the neighbours were out singing carols.
Totally unexpected and caught me by surprise!

But by god, I had a lump in my throat that night!

Yep! Any music like that makes me well up. Brass bands, Carol singers.. general live music! Not sure why!

Always ..... more so since pandemic .

Oh good, I thought it was just me being a soft arse.

I dont know why, but brass bands make me feel sad and emotional, but in a nice nostalgic way. Hard to explain...

Brass band + in the bleak midwinter = floods of tears for me.

Yep, brass bands and choirs make me a jibbering wreck every time

Because it's Christmas and that's what brass bands do! To me anyway!!!

@LindaEllen

I'm in a brass band and it made my day reading this thread. It's easy to forget it means so much to people when you're standing outside a supermarket freezing your tits off and playing the same carols for the 400th time this year haha.

Me too, it makes it all worthwhile doesn’t it?

@SpeckyWithTheGoodHair

Yep, brass bands and choirs make me a jibbering wreck every time

And me! Also flashmobs as somebody mentioned upthread and particularly rousing pieces of music in films - I sobbed all the way through 'America' in the new West Side Story the other night from the orchestra's opening bars onward, so it's a good job it's in the middle.

But I have never screamed at the Sistine Chapel

They get me every time. A few years ago I was feeling quite low and as I came out of the supermarket they were paying "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and I was in floods of tears by the time I got to the car.

Always!

I was at the train station 2 Saturdays ago, and there was a choir singing carols.

I could get my purse out quick enough!

Like some pp have said, I have no historical connection to brass bands, no nostalgia in play, but they make me cry immediately

It's brass bands and bagpipes for me too, so seeing as I've found my people you might also get something out of this:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaKko3VGAnY

They have always had a nostalgic, community, feel to them, but this year in particular had been so hard for so many, and is greater loneliness and perhaps a greater need to belong than many of us have experienced before. There probably isn’t one of us who hasn’t been touched by COVID in some way, and tearing up to the brass band is possibly about a sense of longing for a different time, when we could be close to loved ones without worrying. I’ve cried at a lot of stuff this year - Spider-Man, a gymnastics event, and now the brass bands - it’s a release, isn’t it? A moment like this is like releasing the valve in a pressure cooker.

Because music specifically exists to cause an emotional response?
Honestly not seeing any great mystery here🤷

My husband once disowned me in Meadowhall while Christmas shopping. There was a gospel choir singing O Holy Night. God I was in bits!!!

@toconclude

Because music specifically exists to cause an emotional response? Honestly not seeing any great mystery here🤷

Glad it makes perfect sense to you.

When I am in my garden on a Thursday evening I can hear the band practice in the band room a few houses away.
I really missed it during lockdown, you can imagine what a snotty mess I was the first time they started up again.

It’s deep family history for me too as my dad’s side of the family are from a mining village.