Entertainer, comedian and host Steve Harvey sat down with local musician Shamarr Allen today to talk about the program he created : “Trumpet Is My Weapon” – a gun-for-trumpet exchange. Seeing that gun ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Orleans musician is trading trumpets in exchange for guns, following the murder of a 9-year-old boy, WVUE reports. On July ...

Longtime OffBeat contributor Geraldine Wyckoff was on hand in Armstrong Park when trumpeter Shamarr Allen had a confrontation with Jazz in the Park security staff. Allen was arrested and charged with ...

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A father whose devotion to music prevented his involvement in gun violence in his childhood is offering kids the same shot at success: Turn in your guns for a free trumpet. Shamarr Allen of New ...

New Orleans singer, songwriter, producer, trumpeter, and multi-instrumentalist Shamarr Allen has released his new single "Dance With Me" and announced his new album, True Orleans 2, a jubilant ...

A week after playing the Rochester, N.Y., International Jazz Festival, Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs roll into Miller Plaza, 928 Market St., to headline Nightfall on Friday, July 5. Danny Polo will ...

This weekend, Shamarr Allen and The SticklerPhonics bring jazz and funk to a free show in Palo Alto; Menlo Park’s Bistro Vida hosts a Duran Duran dinner and after party to support cancer nonprofit and ...

A backstage misunderstanding and an angry response fueled the fast-moving confrontation that led to trumpeter Shamarr Allen's arrest, according to several witnesses. Allen was scheduled to headline ...

Musician Shamarr Allen played the National Anthem for President Obama, traveled the world for the State Department and lived in Atlanta for three years, but there’s only one place he calls home: New ...

Active professionally in his hometown since his teens as a member of the Rebirth Brass Band, Shamarr is a stylistic synthesist who brings together many sounds indigenous to New Orleans, often in the ...

Former Rebirth Brass Band trumpeter Shamarr Allen hits the road with Willie Nelson again in July. In July local trumpeter Shamarr Allen joins Willie Nelson's band for a tour of minor league baseball ...