Celebrating over 45 years since their founding in 1977, the GRAMMY Award-winning New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres, including bebop jazz, funk and R&B/soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a “musical gumbo”, has allowed the Dirty Dozen to tour across five continents and more than thirty countries, record twelve studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to Widespread Panic to Norah Jones.

Forty-five plus years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s current lineup includes Roger Lewis on baritone sax/vocals, Gregory Davis on trumpet/vocals, Kirk Joseph on sousaphone, Trevarri Huff-Boone on tenor sax/vocals, Stephen Walker on trombone/vocals, Julian Addison on drums, and Takeshi Shimmura on guitar.