{"id":66369,"date":"2026-02-14T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/the-minneapolis-brass-band-bringing-joy-amid-grief-when-people-see-us-playing-it-gives-them-hope\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:15:38","slug":"the-minneapolis-brass-band-bringing-joy-amid-grief-when-people-see-us-playing-it-gives-them-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/the-minneapolis-brass-band-bringing-joy-amid-grief-when-people-see-us-playing-it-gives-them-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minneapolis brass band bringing joy amid grief: \u2018When people see us playing, it gives them hope\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brass Solidarity was formed after George Floyd\u2019s murder, and now also marks the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at its weekly meetup<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A week after a federal officer shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a troupe of brass players, percussionists and singers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DTb2LnBjDd9\/\">gathered at the site<\/a> of the killing, to play a blaring, defiant rendition of the O\u2019Jays\u2019 Love Train.<\/p>\n<p>Trumpeters, trombonists and sousaphonists had lined up along the ice-slicked sidewalk or were balancing on the snowbanks, blowing up clouds of condensation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/14\/minneapolis-brass-solidarity-band-ice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brass Solidarity was formed after George Floyd\u2019s murder, and now also marks the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at its weekly meetup A week after a federal officer shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a troupe of brass players, percussionists and singers gathered at the site of the killing, to play a blaring, &#8230; <a title=\"The Minneapolis brass band bringing joy amid grief: \u2018When people see us playing, it gives them hope\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/the-minneapolis-brass-band-bringing-joy-amid-grief-when-people-see-us-playing-it-gives-them-hope\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Minneapolis brass band bringing joy amid grief: \u2018When people see us playing, it gives them hope\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}