On April 25, 2020 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will return to the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans for one of the city’s hottest shows of the entire year: the Sixth Annual Treme Threauxdown. Guest stars will be announced in the next few weeks, but over the past five installments the Threauxdown has hosted everyone from Usher to Dierks Bentley and from Nick Jonas to Andra Day—plus many other surprise guest artists from New Orleans and beyond.
Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/TremeThreauxdown2020
At the 2019 installment alone, the Threauxdown included guest appearances by Shaggy, Lauren Daigle, Boz Scaggs, Anthony Hamilton, Aloe Blacc, Leon Bridges, Jon Batiste, G Love, and Anders Osborne.
Hot on the heels of Trombone Shorty’s recent trip to Havana, Cuba with his own music education foundation, this year he is extremely excited to bring Cuban rock star Cimafunk back to New Orleans to open the Threauxdown. Cimafunk has been called the James Brown of Cuba, and was named to Billboard‘s 10 Latin Artists to Watch in 2019 list, with the magazine calling him “Cuba’s revelation of the year.”
What the press is saying about the Treme Threauxdown:
Photo: Ramon Espinosa (AP)
Today Trombone Shorty returned to the United States after an epic week in Havana, Cuba with students, instructors, and staff from the Trombone Shorty Foundation & Trombone Shorty Music Academy.
The five-day cultural exchange trip, tickets for which sold out, was themed “Getting Funky in Havana,” and was sponsored by the Gia Maione Prima Foundation. The once-in-a-life opportunity included experiencing the music and culture of Havana along with New Orleans artists Tank and the Bangas, The Soul Rebels, Anders Osborne and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. In Cuba, Shorty, the Academy and the New Orleans bands joined forces with Cuba’s musical tour-de-force Cimafunk to stage unforgettable concerts and street parades. “We brought the second line to the conga line, donated new instruments to Cuban students and broadened the horizons of my Academy kids. Está volao!” said Shorty.
“Visiting Havana for the Jazz Festival in January meant having my mind blown over and over again by the talent and spirit of Cuba’s music and people,” says Trombone Shorty Foundation Executive Director, Bill Taylor. “And it came together better than I could have ever imagined.”
For day-by-day video highlights, visit the Foundation’s Facebook page.
More Coverage:
The Guardian
Canal Caribe
El Pais
Yahoo/EFE
Ringing in the New Year at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY. Photo by Gary Alpert/Deafboy Photography.
The lighting of the historic Roosevelt Hotel lobby is a New Orleans Christmas tradition, and this year the event added some spark with Trombone Shorty chosen as The Roosevelt’s official lobby lighter.
Shorty kicked off the holiday season with the flip of a switch on Tuesday, December 3, igniting the city-block long lobby in sparkling lights. As a New Orleans native and advocate for the community, he was the perfect host for the annual event which marks the launch of the holiday season for all of New Orleans and its visitors.
Past lobby lighters have included the family of the late Fats Domino, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and the cast of NCIS New Orleans.
The Krewe of Freret is has named Trombone Shorty as its official Grand Marshall and announced the first annual ‘Shorty Gras’ concert ball, which will follow its parade on Feb. 15, 2020.
“We are so excited to welcome Trombone Shorty to our Krewe. Music is an essential component of Carnival, and now we are making it a signature element of our Krewe’s identity,” said Captain Bobby Hjortsberg of the 2020 parade theme New Orleans Music: 300 Years and Counting. “The Krewe of Freret will feature New Orleans music every year in our parade and at the Shorty Gras event.”
To honor the occasion, the parade constructed a new signature float featuring a gigantic animatronic Trombone Shorty. Custom designed and built by Kern Studios, the likeness of the iconic New Orleans musician is over two stories tall, making it the largest prop to ever be featured on the front of a Mardi Gras float. It is one of seven new, state-of-the-art signature floats being unveiled by the Krewe this year.
Traveling along the traditional Uptown route, the parade will end at Mardi Gras World and roll through Shorty Gras, showering throws down on the crowd. The ball’s world-class musical lineup, will be announced next year.
On April 25, 2020 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will return to the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans for one of the city’s hottest shows of the entire year: the Sixth Annual Treme Threauxdown. Guest stars will be announced in the next few weeks, but over the past five installments the Threauxdown has hosted everyone from Usher to Dierks Bentley and from Nick Jonas to Andra Day—plus many other surprise guest artists from New Orleans and beyond.
Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/TremeThreauxdown2020
At the 2019 installment alone, the Threauxdown included guest appearances by Shaggy, Lauren Daigle, Boz Scaggs, Anthony Hamilton, Aloe Blacc, Leon Bridges, Jon Batiste, G Love, and Anders Osborne.
Hot on the heels of Trombone Shorty’s recent trip to Havana, Cuba with his own music education foundation, this year he is extremely excited to bring Cuban rock star Cimafunk back to New Orleans to open the Threauxdown. Cimafunk has been called the James Brown of Cuba, and was named to Billboard‘s 10 Latin Artists to Watch in 2019 list, with the magazine calling him “Cuba’s revelation of the year.”
What the press is saying about the Treme Threauxdown:
Photo: Ramon Espinosa (AP)
Today Trombone Shorty returned to the United States after an epic week in Havana, Cuba with students, instructors, and staff from the Trombone Shorty Foundation & Trombone Shorty Music Academy.
The five-day cultural exchange trip, tickets for which sold out, was themed “Getting Funky in Havana,” and was sponsored by the Gia Maione Prima Foundation. The once-in-a-life opportunity included experiencing the music and culture of Havana along with New Orleans artists Tank and the Bangas, The Soul Rebels, Anders Osborne and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. In Cuba, Shorty, the Academy and the New Orleans bands joined forces with Cuba’s musical tour-de-force Cimafunk to stage unforgettable concerts and street parades. “We brought the second line to the conga line, donated new instruments to Cuban students and broadened the horizons of my Academy kids. Está volao!” said Shorty.
“Visiting Havana for the Jazz Festival in January meant having my mind blown over and over again by the talent and spirit of Cuba’s music and people,” says Trombone Shorty Foundation Executive Director, Bill Taylor. “And it came together better than I could have ever imagined.”
For day-by-day video highlights, visit the Foundation’s Facebook page.
More Coverage:
The Guardian
Canal Caribe
El Pais
Yahoo/EFE
Ringing in the New Year at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY. Photo by Gary Alpert/Deafboy Photography.
The lighting of the historic Roosevelt Hotel lobby is a New Orleans Christmas tradition, and this year the event added some spark with Trombone Shorty chosen as The Roosevelt’s official lobby lighter.
Shorty kicked off the holiday season with the flip of a switch on Tuesday, December 3, igniting the city-block long lobby in sparkling lights. As a New Orleans native and advocate for the community, he was the perfect host for the annual event which marks the launch of the holiday season for all of New Orleans and its visitors.
Past lobby lighters have included the family of the late Fats Domino, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and the cast of NCIS New Orleans.
The Krewe of Freret is has named Trombone Shorty as its official Grand Marshall and announced the first annual ‘Shorty Gras’ concert ball, which will follow its parade on Feb. 15, 2020.
“We are so excited to welcome Trombone Shorty to our Krewe. Music is an essential component of Carnival, and now we are making it a signature element of our Krewe’s identity,” said Captain Bobby Hjortsberg of the 2020 parade theme New Orleans Music: 300 Years and Counting. “The Krewe of Freret will feature New Orleans music every year in our parade and at the Shorty Gras event.”
To honor the occasion, the parade constructed a new signature float featuring a gigantic animatronic Trombone Shorty. Custom designed and built by Kern Studios, the likeness of the iconic New Orleans musician is over two stories tall, making it the largest prop to ever be featured on the front of a Mardi Gras float. It is one of seven new, state-of-the-art signature floats being unveiled by the Krewe this year.
Traveling along the traditional Uptown route, the parade will end at Mardi Gras World and roll through Shorty Gras, showering throws down on the crowd. The ball’s world-class musical lineup, will be announced next year.
