This was the first real New Orleans brass band I ever saw: The Treme Brass Band.

Steve O’Keefe took me to Vaughn’s one steamy June night and this native New Yorker and diehard jazz fan realized in a flash what he’d been missing all this life.

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• Treme Brass Band named a national treasure
• PBS River of Song
• Band Profile on NEA site