The nonprofit Girls Play Trumpets Too was formed to inspire and empower girls to play.

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 ...

TARZANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter donated a top-of-the-line trumpet to an 11-year-old Washington girl after her horn was stolen. Arturo Sandoval, who has won 10 ...

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 ...

A musical group with a long history in Vernon is looking for a new home. The Vernon Girls Trumpet Band, which started in 1947, will soon lose its practice space. The group has been practicing at the ...