The Shady Horns To Join Umphrey’s McGee In New Orleans

Umphrey’s McGee has announced The Shady Horns will join them for an upcoming show in New Orleans. UM will add the Lettuce/Soulive horn section featuring Eric “Benny” Bloom on trumpet and Ryan Zoidis on saxophone to their performance on April 14 at The Joy Theater.

Umphrey’s just wrapped a run of shows in which they welcomed frequent collaborator, saxophonist Joshua Redman for several nights. The Shady Horns shared the stage with UM a number of times last summer during a tour with Lettuce and sat-in at Dominican Holidaze last year as well.

Here’s footage captured and posted to YouTube by Bill Watts of Zoidis, Bloom and their Lettuce cohort Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff on guitar performing “Sledgehammer” with UM at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia on July 18, 2015: