History

The Banda Sociale Folkloristica di Castello Tesino was born in 1901 when Martino Braus purchased instruments for a group of 25 members under the guidance of "Signor Müller". In 1903, at their first official performance at the band competition in Trento during the Vigilian Festivals, they placed with honor among thirteen competing bands. In 1909, the first statute was drafted, approved by the Imperial Royal Lieutenancy of Innsbruck.

The band's history is marked by epochal challenges: the 1916 evacuation during the Great War when the town was completely destroyed, reconstruction with Bohemian instruments, the golden period 1925-29 under Maestro Anacleto Flacco with 45 members, and the post-war renaissance of 1946. In 1981 it adopted traditional Tesino costumes becoming a folkloristic band. Since 2003 it has been led by Maestro Ivan Villanova.