Girls Play Trumpets Too is a New Orleans-based nonprofit on a mission to enhance representation in the music industry by empowering more girls and women to play trumpet. Founder Troy Sawyer shares his ...
Growing up in Uptown New Orleans, Troy Sawyer was always drawn to the rich, brassy music of a second-line band. He loved the bold sound of a trumpet so much that he made it his career. But to Sawyer, ...
PRODUCING MORE PROFESSIONAL FEMALE TRUMPETERS HELD ITS DEBUT PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY THE FIRST PARTICIPANTS IN THE GIRLS PLAY TRUMPET 2 PROGRAM CELEBRATED MONTHS OF WORK WITH THE PERFORMANCE AT CAFE ...
The Central Wetlands Reforestation Collective recently launched an initiative to plant 63,000 thousand trees in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. This is part of larger efforts to restore the bayou ...
Margaret Smith, a junior at Boulevard Academy, has always known she wanted to be a musician. Wednesday she showed her classmates what she could do with a trumpet when she played the National Anthem ...
As Memorial Day ceremonies take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery, there's one man that's honoring the fallen in his own way. It's a way many soldiers have never been honored before. For eight ...
When Ellen Seeling was a little girl, she fell in love with jazz and asked her mother if she could take trumpet lessons. Snapp Shots: Garden of Memory returning to Oakland’s Chapel of Chimes Snapp ...