Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
announced as special guest for
Lenny Kravitz in New Zealand

On the back of Australia’s Byron Bay BluesFest, TEG Live is pleased to announce that Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will be joining one of the most successful and best-selling artists of his generation, Lenny Kravitz, on his Here to Love Australian tour this April.

Australian fans will be able to see Lenny Kravitz and special guest Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on April 3, Newcastle Entertainment Centre on April 6 and at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on April 8. Tickets now on sale at Ticketek.

Trombone Shorty aka Troy Andrews is a musician, producer and actor whose first gig out of high school was performing with Kravitz as part of his horn section on his 2005 world tour. Troy Andrews is the bandleader and frontman of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, a nine-piece hard-edged funk band that employs brass-band beats, rock dynamics and improvisation in a jazz tradition.

Andrews has gone on to work with some of the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz, funk and hip hop including, Prince, U2, Green Day, Charles Neville (Neville Brothers), Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Mark Ronson, Zhu, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Rebirth Brass Band, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker, and has shared the stage with Hall & Oates, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steven Tyler, LeAnn Rimes, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna, and the Foo Fighters.

He has performed at the White House five times between 2008-2016, a highlight being in 2012 as part of Black History Month, alongside B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Keb' Mo', Mick Jagger, Michelle Obama and twice again in 2015 (for President Obama) with Usher, Queen Latifah, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Aloe Blacc.

Best known as a trombone, trumpet player and singer, Andrews also plays drums, organ, and tuba and is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews and the grandson of singer and songwriter Jessie Hill. The late Travis "Trumpet Black’ Hill is another musical family member.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue promises a unique musical union of rock n roll, funk, blues and soul with New Orleans jazz and hip hop which will get the audience ready for Lenny Kravitz, who will bring the house down with his high energy show featuring this classic hits and new music from Rise Vibration album

LENNY KRAVITZ HERE TO LOVE NEW ZEALAND SHOW
with special guest TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE

TUESDAY 31 MARCH 2020
SPARK ARENA, AUCKLAND

Tickets are now on sale at www.ticketmaster.co.nz

www.tromboneshorty.com
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