Brass Out Loud, BOLD for short, is a non profit organization dedicated to promoting diversity in brass seminars and the general brass community. Brass Out Loud was originally founded to launch our inaugural virtual workshop and has since expanded to serve many other purposes. Founders Rebecca Karu, Kate Amrine, and Melissa Muñoz began planting the seeds for this new online workshop in the summer of 2020. After four months of logistical planning, Brass Out Loud became a reality and launched in October 2020.
Brass Out Loud’s first virtual workshop occurred January 8–10, 2021. The workshop was designed for all brass players everywhere, with an inclusive faculty of all backgrounds, races, and genders. The classes offered ranged from instrument-specific performance seminars to discussion panels on how to be anti-racist in our current state as a society. 
As a way to begin highlighting our faculty’s perspectives and experiences, Brass Out Loud started a new Facebook Live series titled, “BOLD Chats," where founders interview musicians about how they have persevered through social obstacles, dealt with the challenges COVID-19 has created, as well as how their ideal brass community looks and functions. 

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