A huge part of my upbringing was playing the French horn. I graduated Loyola University with a French horn degree. I love the instrument, I love the sound.

Playing a free show in Buffalo, New York on August 15th as part of The Big Easy in Buffalo series! https://www.asiwny.org/2018/04/27/john-papa-gros-band-buffalo-brass-machine/ 

With the live shows, we look to make things different every night. It would be so easy to be repetitive and go through the motions. That wouldn’t be any fun. It’s a blast surprising ourselves.

George Porter says, by learning a new song, you acquire new tools to put in your tool belt. Then at the next gig you learn something else and add that to your tool belt. So when you are fifteen, twenty years down the road, you have a full tool belt to work with. The...

Musically, what's challenging to me right now is to just stay fresh by adding something new to my vocabulary. It can be very small and very simple. It doesn't have to be anything complex or a reinvention of the wheel. Just something that keeps me engaged and excited...

I have embraced my past, am comfortable with my present and am looking forward to this next phase in my career.

If you want to contribute to the New Orleans music tradition, then you can never take a day off. If your goal is set high, the bar is set even higher by the "greats" who came before you. You'll never get there if you don't put the time in. You'll never have a chance....

About the song "Why'd You Do It?" I was in Jamaica for a week and came back with a little Reggae melody. which became "Why'd You Do It". I told the guys, "I hear this as Reggae but I don’t want to make it sound Reggae. Let’s do something different with it.“ Brian...