Date: Saturday April 16, 2011 (Doors at 9pm, Show at 10pm)

VIP Reception begins at 8pm

Genre: Various/Benefit
Ages: 18+ 

General Admission: $21  

VIP Admission: $76  
(VIP ticket includes: Private upstairs balcony party from 8pm to 10pm with drink specials and catered food from New Orleans-area restaurants, plus access to the show beginning at 10pm. Proceeds donated to "Trumpets Not Guns")

TIPITINA'S UPTOWN

501 Napoleon Ave - New Orleans, LA - (DIRECTIONS)

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At 12, Glen David Andrews picked up the trombone. Rather than studying formally, he absorbed musical skills from neighbors such as "Frogman" Joseph, Harry Nance, Harold DeJean and other local heroes - "the cream of the crop," Andrews says. Soon he was playing for money alongside Tuba Fats in Jackson Square, in the middle of the French Quarter. He was recruited into a brass band led by his younger cousin, Troy Andrews, and has since played in both the New Birth and Treme' brass bands, among others, lending equal measures of musicianship and showmanship to each.

"Aside from being a great musician, Glen David has absorbed a fading tradition," says Ben Jaffe, who runs Preservation Hall, where Andrews used to play regularly on Sunday nights. "He's a link for his generation to something important. But he also has a rare enthusiasm and energy that makes it all special and exciting for even casual listeners." Though most contemporary brass-band musicians have embraced the more funk and pop-oriented sound of say, the Rebirth band, a shift that began some 30 years ago, Andrews sticks mostly to the old hymns, spirituals and trad-jazz tunes. He has just released a live gospel CD, "Walking Through Heaven's Gate", on Threadhead Records, that is probably the first CD to have captured on record the entrancing quality of Andrews' performances at venues like Preservation Hall, the Mid City Lanes Rock 'n' Bowl or, most powerfully of all, on the streets.