This is a Friday night weekly show 5-7pm featuring brassy, classy acts from all around  Australia as curated and hosted by Mark Gardner here on 3MDR 97.1FM . Mark is currently a very busy musician and singer / songwriter local to the hills area and multi instrumentalist including mainly playing trumpet 🎺, singing and guitar and plays keyboards with harmonica , flugelhorn , trombone and euphonium also . Mark performs in various community bands including the Knox Wind Symphony , Croydon Brass Band and also played in original independent bands :- Bricks and Mortar , Sgt Trouser, The Broken Sweethearts and now his own outfit Mark Gardner and The Great Divide. A big thank you to current subscribers :- Rebellious bird ( Erin) Richard Ross Natalie Gauci Marissa Rose - Who now hosts her own show Ska Street on Saturdays 2-4pm A huge thanks to artists who have played live recently :- Greg Arnold , Dave Cox , Richard Ross . Also massive thanks to Justine Jones , Melba Big Band, Tessa Jetson , Daimon Brunton , Natalie Gauci , The Hornstars and Marissa Rose for your interviews and guest appearances . This coming weeks on Brassed off: We have interviews with Tony Norris and Kat B from The Beatnik Preachers and incoming weeks we have The Caledonian Castodians , Guitar for Veterans Australia - founder - Dave Cox ,Daimon Brunton ,