{"id":798181,"date":"2019-08-01T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/here-come-the-horns-trombone-shorty-to-perform-at-riverwalk-center\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:28:00","slug":"here-come-the-horns-trombone-shorty-to-perform-at-riverwalk-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/here-come-the-horns-trombone-shorty-to-perform-at-riverwalk-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Here come the horns: Trombone Shorty to perform at Riverwalk Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grammy-nominated Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue will perform at Breckenridge’s Riverwalk Center, 150 W. Adams Ave., on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.<\/strong>
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Troy Andrews is no ordinary trombonist. He\u2019s been playing the instrument since he was 4 \u2014 an act that lent itself to his stage name Trombone Shorty \u2014 and became a bandleader at 6. Over the years, he\u2019s played with Lenny Kravitz, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, Dierks Bentley and other acts.<\/p>\n

One group Andrews has been around practically his whole life is The Neville Brothers, who were his honorary uncles since he was about 10, and he toured with Cyril Neville just last year. Founding member Art Neville, also known for his pioneering funk work with The Meters, died July 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough loss for us because that\u2019s my family,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cI grew up listening to them, I grew up playing with them, and it was just an unbelievable experience to be able to be with a family and a band that helped create the sound \u2014 that I\u2019m able to stand on their shoulders because of what they created. \u2026 I\u2019m very blessed and honored to be able to have that time with such a legendary group of musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrews has even acted in titles like the HBO series \u201cTreme\u201d and more recently, 2015\u2019s \u201cThe Peanuts Movie.\u201d Yes, the signature muted trombone sound made when adults and teachers talk in the Schulz\u2019s story is Andrews mimicking spoken dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of fun, and I was very honored,\u201d Andrews said about the recording session. \u201cWhen I was younger, I remembered watching that and hearing it and being able to recognize that that was the instrument that I play. \u2026 They had a guy in there and he would say the sentence to me, and I would repeat it on the trombone the same way he articulated it. If he went high, I went high. If he went low, I went low.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Andrews is bringing his talents back to the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a challenge coming from New Orleans, which is like 6 feet below sea level,\u201d Andrews said in reference to Breckenridge\u2019s 9,600-foot elevation. \u201cI\u2019m running out of air singing and dancing. There\u2019s never really a break for me. And my horn, for some reason when it gets that high, it sounds so thin it makes me feel like I have a leak in the horn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What led him down this path was growing up in a house full of musicians in the Trem\u00e9 neighborhood of New Orleans, where music was literally everywhere. Anthony \u201cTuba Fats\u201d Lace, the Treme Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the Rebirth Brass Band \u2014 which included some of Andrews\u2019 own family \u2014 were all just blocks away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was as much music inside as outside,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cI had all of these great New Orleans legends surrounding me and helping me out. I think if I didn\u2019t play music, I would have been an outcast of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The neighborhood itself is only one block removed from the iconic French Quarter, where Andrews, his friends and cousins would perform in Jackson Square as the 5 O\u2019clock Band. Named because that\u2019s when the kids would arrive after finishing up schoolwork, they performed out of admiration of their older relatives and imitated their funky sounds. Andrews started with the trombone because his trumpet-playing brother James wanted a sidekick and gave the instrument to Troy. That led to Troy teaching himself the tuba, drums, trumpet and whatever else was needed to complete their burgeoning band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d have like the Big Wheel bikes, and I\u2019d turn it upside down, and it\u2019ll look like a sousaphone or tuba, and we\u2019d hum up the street,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cWe\u2019d go to the corner store, and they\u2019d put out the Coca-Cola boxes or whatever, and we\u2019d go around with our water bottles and hit the best one that had the best bass drum sound as we marched. We were just really imitating everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simultaneously touring in Europe with James, roughly 20 years his senior, Troy received firsthand education in the streets and studios of Crescent City, along with studying at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. On one hand, it was difficult for Andrews to see the older musicians busk night and day in the square for a living, but on the other, they provided sage advice and history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very excited to play music that made us move, but they sat us down and made us learn the traditional style of New Orleans music in order for us to know and get to the sound that I have now. They taught me the lineage and everything. We couldn\u2019t pay for those lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having that priceless experience is part of the reason Andrews started The Trombone Shorty Foundation to teach kids about the music industry. Local students learn about the history of New Orleans music and perform it for themselves in unique after-school programs. What started as giving away instruments has transformed to teaching students about recording, managing, marketing and other aspects about the business \u2014 along with fieldtrips to places like Sony Records \u2014 so that they have a chance at success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music business is always changing, but I wanted the kids to understand that when they get to certain areas of their career, this won\u2019t be completely foreign to them,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cI just want to give them the foundation to know that this exists because I know a lot of people get lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundation also helps keep the arts scene alive, even if schools slash departments with budget cuts. \u201cWhen they get cut, they don\u2019t understand that maybe these music and arts are keeping these children interested in staying in school. If they don\u2019t have it, then we might get a lot more dropouts.\u201d<\/p>\n

His passion for youths is why Andrews\u2019 childhood career was recently translated into two children\u2019s books, \u201cTrombone Shorty\u201d and \u201cThe 5 O\u2019clock Band\u201d \u2014 the former of which was recently incorporated into the daily activities for the Breckenridge Music Festival\u2019s KidFest<\/a>. He doesn\u2019t have any other media in the works aside from a new album, but he is interested in the idea of an animated series rather than making the books a trilogy.<\/p>\n

Coming to Breckenridge in the flesh, Andrews hopes \u201cpeople have their dancing shoes because we love to play and have a great time. It\u2019s like a great Mardi Gras party coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Grammy-nominated Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue will perform at Breckenridge’s Riverwalk Center, 150 W. Adams Ave., on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.Courtesy Universal Music Group Troy Andrews is no ordinary trombonist. He\u2019s been playing the instrument since he was 4 \u2014 an act that lent itself to his stage name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 16:18:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}