NEW ORLEANS — For Chrisana Brown and her bandmates, jazz sounds like opportunity and sisterhood. “It feels like a victory,” Trumpeter Chrisana Brown said. But women didn’t have a seat at the jazz ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Girls Play Trumpets Too is a New Orleans-based nonprofit on a mission to enhance representation in the music industry by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Girls Play Trumpets Too plans to play a tribute honoring women of impact who are shaping culture and leadership in the ...