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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An independent girls' school is holding a "blow your own trumpet" week to help over-pressured, high-achieving pupils who find it difficult to accept that they have been successful. "Some teenagers ...

One month after a 10-year-old Grass Valley girl fought off an adult male attacker with her school band trumpet, her community has come together to reward her for her bravery. As the sound of a brand ...

The Vernon Girls Trumpet band, an Okanagan institution that’s been silent for 11 years, is back in play, and now its members are tuning up for the Vernon Winter Carnival Parade. “We are a combination ...