The band was formed in July 1998 and that with the first unofficial meeting in room 410 in student campus Rožna dolina, Ljubljana. The name KarČeš brass band (whatever you want brass band) comes from a simple fact that we, at the beginning, played all sorts and types of music. From to all known folk musician Avsenik over traditional gipsy songs, songs from cartoons, to arrangements of Metallica; so - whatever you want. And the -BRASS BAND ending, that every honest band puts it in its name means, that this is a group with brass instruments (go figure) .
At the very beginning the Kar Češ brass band was: Marko Obid - tuba, Sebastjan & Erik Jermol - trumpet, Tadej Bizjak - saxophone and Alen Bogataj on drums. After 4 months of its existence Ana Mlakar on flute had joined the group. After a year of intensive rehearsals, we had our first stage debut on the opening concert of youth club C.M.A.K in front of old youth hostel in Cerkno. In year 2001 Ana left our band, so we played for a short period of time in our original set up. 'cause we played more and more in our street version, there came a need for another percussionist on bass drum, which role was accepted by Matija Purgar. After arrival of our third percussionist Primož Podobnik, tuba player Rok Šinkovec, the man on trumpet Florjan from Šebrelje and when our oldest member Erik Jermol left (off course not because of his age) tha Brass Band finally formed its present figure, which is consisted out of 8 members. This year goes our seventh year by, since we had our first public appearance. And since then we’ve heated up quite a few parties, picnics and if you would look thoroughly, you could also find some wedding in between. In all this time we’ve reduced our versatile repertoire, so that at this moment we look for our inspiration mostly in street jazz of New Orleans, evergreen melodies of former Yugoslav republic and distilled products of home fruit.