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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with The Stone Foxes
Friday, November 11, 2016, 08:00pm
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE
A BENEFIT CONCERT TO END POLIO NOW
UPDATE: The Stone Foxes have been added as the opening act for this show! Read more in the full story.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue announce a benefit concert at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA on Friday, November 11 at 8:00 PM. All net proceeds from this performance will benefit Rotary’s global polio eradication effort. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 27 at 10:00 AM and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com.
New Orleans native Trombone Shorty began his career as a bandleader at the young age of six, toured internationally at age 12, and spent his teens playing with various brass bands throughout New Orleans and touring worldwide with Lenny Kravitz.
He fronts Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a funk/rock/jazz/hip-hop band. Together they have toured across the U.S., Europe, Australia, Russia, Japan and Brazil. In 2010, Trombone Shorty released his debut album, the Grammy®-nominated "Backatown," followed by "For True" in 2011, which topped Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Chart for 12 weeks. His newest album, "Say That to This," was released in 2013 and features funk/jazz elements of New Orleans.
Trombone Shorty appeared in several episodes of HBO's Treme, and has recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Conan. In 2012, he performed at the White House in honor of Black History Month with music royalty such as B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck and Booker T. Jones. At this year's Grammy Awards, he performed alongside Madonna, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Mary Lambert. In 2012, he received the President's Medal from Tulane University in recognition of his charitable work with the Trombone Shorty Foundation, which donates quality instruments to schools across New Orleans.
Friday, November 11, 2016