New Breed Brass Band w/ Trombone Shorty
w/ Nik Parr & Selfless Lovers
Santa Fe Summer Scene
August 22, 2025 • 7:00 pm
DOORS 6:00pm • All Ages
Sponsored by Ski Santa Fe
VENUE: RAILYARD PLAZA
SEATING: Standing or feel free to bring chairs
ADA: Ask for accommodations
PARKING: Yes, ample parking is available in the underground garage just north of REI
WATER: Bring your water bottle—we will have filling stations
FOOD/DRINK: Are available inside Second Street Brewery, Violet Crown Cinema, As Above & So Below, and La Lecharia for your ice cream needs. Food trucks will also be on site.
NEW BREED BRASS BAND W/ TROMBONE SHORTY
New Breed Brass Band presents a brand of second line music in conversation with everything from Caribbean music to modern R&B. They’re joined by New Orleans icon Trombone Shorty!
On Made In New Orleans, New Breed Brass Band presents a brand of second line music in conversation with everything from Caribbean music to No Limit Records to modern R&B in the vein of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak’s Silk Sonic. Guest appearances — including from local legends Kango Slim, Wild Wayne, and the late great 5th Ward Weebie, as well as Dave Matthews Band saxophonist Jeff Coffin — deepen the exuberant chaos. It’s joyful and vital and distinctly of the moment — music for and by New Orleans’ next generation.
Though the young musicians were ensconced in second line culture — band leader Jenard Andrews’ father is the great trumpeter James Andrews, and his uncle is Trombone Shorty, the New Orleans scene lynchpin — it took something of an intervention to help them find their own sound.
Says Jenard: “In New Orleans, everyone starts out as a Rebirth cover band until you find your thing. We were jamming out on some Rebirth stuff at Trombone Shorty’s studio. Shorty comes in and gives it to us straight: “This isn’t practicing, you’re just jamming on some Rebirth. You’ve gotta find your own thing.”
Trombone Shorty began coaching them up, and their sound took shape: The rhythmic versatility of the local jazz and funk scenes—as well New Orleans hip-hop from Cash Money to bounce—fused with second line culture to create something distinctly theirs. As Jenard puts it: “We wanted to get real New Orleans street on them.”
Audiences took notice. They toured North America and Europe, and opened for The Fray, Blackalicious, Dr. John, and eventually Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue.
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