Brass Band · Traditional · Est. 1990
Treme · New Orleans
Treme Brass Band
Where to Catch Them
Catch the Treme Brass Band’s traditional Sunday set at d.b.a. (618 Frenchmen St.). Check current schedules.
Led by patriarch Benny Jones Sr., the band earned a 2006 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Established 1990 · Treme, New Orleans
Keepers of the Tradition.
The Treme Brass Band was formed around 1990 by Benny Jones Sr. — a Treme-born drummer who played with the Olympia Brass Band and helped lead the Dirty Dozen before starting his own. Where others went modern, Benny went the other way, holding tight to the traditional repertoire.
Spirituals, standards, and even the clarinet — rarely heard in today’s brass bands — are the Treme Brass Band’s signature. In 2006 the group received a National Heritage Fellowship from the NEA, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
The old-line sound, kept alive.
Treme · New Orleans
