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The Treme Brass Band is a marching brass band from New Orleans, Louisiana led by snare drum mer Benny Jones, Sr. The band, which plays traditional New Orleans-style brass band music, features a shifting lineup that has included trumpet ers Kermit Ruffins and James Andrews, tenor saxophone|tenor saxophonists Elliot Callier and Frederick Sheppard, trombone|trombonist Corey Henry, and sousaphone|sousaphonist Kirk Joseph .cite web |url= http://www.arhoolie.com/jazz/the-treme-brass-band-gimme-my-money-back.html|title= The Treme Brass Band - Gimme My Money Back |publisher= Arhoolie Records|location=El Cerito, CA |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans_title= |format= html |accessdate= 2 March 2012|quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript= Lionel Batiste appears consistently on the bass drum .They have released two albums, Gimme My Money Back on Arhoolie Records and I Got a Big, Fat Woman on the Sound of New Orleans Records labelcite web |url= http://www.soundofneworleans.com/treme_brass.html|title= The Treme Brass Band - I Got a Big Fat Woman |author= Gary Edwards|publisher= Sound of New Orleans|location=New Orleans, LA |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans_title= |format= html |accessdate= 2 March 2012|quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript=. The band takes its name from New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood; due to some historical confusion, the "Treme" in the name is sometimes spelled "Tremè" or "Tremé". In 2010 the Treme Brass Band performed with Uncle Lionel Batiste to play Voodoo Experience in New Orleans.
The Treme Brass Band, including Uncle Lionel Batiste will be featured in the 2011 non-fiction film by Darren Hoffman, Tradition is a Temple . Their version of Just a Closer Walk With Thee (song)|A Closer Walk With Thee is on the soundtrack of the first episode of the HBO series Treme (TV series)|Treme cite web |url= http://www.hbo.com/treme/episodes/1/01-do-you-know-what-it-means/music.html|title= Treme Season 1 : Episode 1 : Do You Know What it Means : Music|publisher= Home Box Office, Inc. |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans_title= |format= html |accessdate= 2 March 2012|quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript= . The National Endowment for the Arts awarded them a National Heritage Fellowship in 2006. cite web | url= http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php? id=2006_11& type=bio |title= 2006 NEA National Heritage Fellow: Treme Brass Band|author= |date= 2006|format= html|publisher= National Endowment for the Arts|accessdate=2 March 2012
Additionally, the Treme Brass Band leads the Marching Krewe KOE on their Fat Tuesday Parade throughout the French Quarter in New Orleans.
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http://www.arhoolie.com/jazz/the-treme-brass-band-gimme-my-money-back.html Gimme My Money Back at Arhoolie Records.
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