Brass Monkey has been played on NTS in shows including Who's That Girl? w/ Leyla Pillai , featured first on 30 March 2020. Songs played include The Loss Of The Ramillies.

1) Brass Monkey is the name of an English folk band from the 1980s whose members reunited in the late 1990s. They were innovative in their use of a brass section, which was atypical for English folk music.

The band originally consisted of Martin Carthy (vocals, guitar, mandolin), John Kirkpatrick (vocals, accordion, concertina), Howard Evans (trumpet), Roger Williams (trombone), and Martin Brinsford (born 17 August 1944, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire) (harmonica, percussion, saxophone).

Carthy was a well-established…