Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue August 3, 2009

AMP Concerts & Fan Man Productions present
Monday, August 3
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Santa Fe Brewing Company
37 Fire Place
(Just Off NM Highway 14)
7:30 PM

Rare indeed is the artist with the virtuosity to draw the unqualified respect of some of the most iconic legends in jazz and the ability to deliver a high-energy funk rock show capable of mesmerizing international rock stars. Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is one such artist—and there is no one else like him. He is equally adept on trombone and trumpet and is a man to be reckoned with on both. A product of New Orleans' culturally rich Treme neighborhood, Trombone Shorty was a bandleader by the age of six; by the time Trombone Shorty was twelve, he had a Ph.D. in the ways of the streets, which you can still hear in his music. During a visit to a small New Orleans club, Bono and the Edge saw the 12-year-old trombone player. "We were just mesmerized by him," the Edge recalled. Now, at 23, Trombone Shorty has grown into a performer who commands the stage while emanating an elegance and class gleaned from his successful studies at the prestigious New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. As a graduate, he joined the ranks of alums like Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and Nicholas Payton.

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