JamBandsOnline.com Archives Bridging The Music has announced the Live at the Drive-In Concert Series Getting to Know Don Hart: How the Symphony Orchestra World and the Phish World Collided into a Beautiful Collaboration Between Friends RED BULL RECORDS ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL VIRTUAL FESTIVAL EMANCIPATOR DROPS POWERFUL NEW SINGLE “IRON OX” WINTER WONDER GRASS CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES GRASS AFTER DARK KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH RELEASES NEW SONG “TUFNEL’S RETREAT” NEW EP DUE OUT FEB 2020 JBO Gets to Know Keller Williams Past, Present, and Future Loose Talk Release Brand New Single “Iron Heel” PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRY MAIN STAYS FUTUREBIRDS SHARE NEW TRACK “CRAZY BOYS”VIA AMERICAN SONGWRITER NEW ALBUM TEAMWORK DUE JANUARY 15, 2020 SUWANNEE HULAWEEN UNVEILS DAILY SCHEDULE SPIRIT OF THE SUWANNEE MUSIC PARK IN LIVE OAK, FL OCTOBER 24-27, 2019 Annual Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Fest – Where the Music is as Hot as the Sun TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR THIS WEEKEND’S SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN SOL FESTIVAL – SEPTEMBER 20-22 A Celebration of the Life & Music of the Late Neal Casal KELLER WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIO ALBUM, SPEED, RELEASING NOVEMBER 22ND Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Daily Schedule Released,Organizers Respond to, and Remind of, Security Changes for 2019 Festival SAM BUSH, DEL MCCOURY BAND, KELLER & THE KEELS, SAMANTHA FISH, THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS, PETER ROWAN, AND DONNA THE BUFFALO SLATED TO PERFORM AT THE 4TH ANNUAL SUWANNEE ROOTS REVIVAL AQUEOUS ANNOUNCES TWO NIGHTS AT TOWN BALLROOM IN BUFFALO, NY TO RING IN THE NEW YEAR BILLY STRINGS RELEASES NEW SONG “EVERYTHING’S THE SAME” AUSTRALIAN PSYCH SISTERS STONEFIELD ANNOUNCE FALL US TOUR DATES KELLER WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES EXTENSIVE FALL TOUR, INCLUDING THANKSFORGRASSGIVING SHOW IN DENVER, COLORADO KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARDTO RELEASE FIFTEENTH STUDIO ALBUMINFEST THE RATS’ NESTON AUGUST 16 VIA ATO RECORDS TWO-TIME GRAMMY-NOMINATED BLUES-ROCK GUITAR SUPERSTAR JOE BONAMASSA ANNOUNCES 2020 SPRING U.S. TOUR DATES Roam ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM SMILE JULIAN MARLEY RELEASES NEW VIDEO to TRACK “BROKEN SAIL” from HIS RECENTLY RELEASED ALBUM, “AS I AM.” JOIN RINGO STARR FOR HIS 11th ANNUAL PEACE & LOVE BIRTHDAY SLIGHTLY STOOPID RELEASE “ONE MORE NIGHT” OFFICIAL VIDEO VIDEO FEATURES VINTAGE LIVE FOOTAGE Jackie Greene Announces New Album, “100% Greene (Live From Throckmorton Theatre)” out now California is the Place to Be….. 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Grassy Good Times at this Year’s 12th Annual Northwest String Summit JBO Sits Down with Jeff Pehrson of The Fall Risk, and Member of Furthur, to Discuss the Initial CD, “Volume No. 1”, as Well as His Musical Past and Present. CD Review: The Fall Risk – Volume No. 1…Nine Songs That Invoke Heart and Soul into Your Daily Groove. 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JBO wants YOU to know the lovely and multi-talented Natalie Cressman from The Trey Anastasio Band | JamBandsOnline.com







JBO wants YOU to know the lovely and multi-talented Natalie Cressman from The Trey Anastasio Band Article and photos by Lori Sky Twohy Lori from JBO: Hi Natalie! Thank you so much for talking to us today. I’m really looking forward to learning about this great young trombonist for the Trey Anastasio Band, who I also recently noticed at Bear Creek Music Festival with her own set. I’m really excited for you and these opportunities you are getting and would love to know how they came about. Do you have a good amount of time? Natalie: Yes, I happen to be working from home today, so my schedule is really flexible. JBO: Are you currently living in San Francisco? Natalie: I actually live in Brooklyn. I grew up in San Francisco and I travel back a lot to visit with my family. JBO: Excellent! So from the little bit I already know, your parents are both musicians and your father Jeff Cressman plays with Santana, so I am assuming these are your musical inspirations and why you became a musician, correct? And can you tell us more about your family and why you chose to play the trombone? Natalie: Yes, my father is a trombonist for Santana and I grew up watching him play and kind of tagging along at their gigs. Even as a toddler I would toddle up to the trombone and try to make sounds. Then when I was about nine or ten, it was time to pick an instrument at school. We had an extra trombone lying around and I had a great private teacher, who was my dad. So I think my parents were down with that, because then they didn’t have to go out and try to find me a violin or something (laughs), so it worked. I also think that growing up listening to that sound my whole life made me more naturally drawn towards it. JBO: So, like father like daughter, then? How cool! Natalie: Yeah, he’s been such a great role model for me growing up and a great mentor and teacher. Not just showing me how to play, but also things that aren’t musical, like how to interact with people, how to be really professional and how to be respectful and easy to work with. As a whole, I think I was really lucky to be able to watch my parents work as musicians my whole life, because it gave me a concept of what it might be like if I were to make a career of it myself, which is now what I am doing. JBO: What does your mother do musically and are you an only child? Natalie: My little sister is very musical, but is a dancer and my mother is a singer who specializes in Brazilian music, which is where her heart really lies. She is also a really great vocal technique teacher, so she does a lot of instruction and goes to Europe once a year to teach. She is really awesome and when I started singing backup in Trey’s band, it had been a while since I really sang. She really helped me get in shape for it, so I have had her as a mentor on the singing side of things too. I guess I am kind of a little spoiled in that way (laughs). JBO: Ha! Well, you still work hard to do what you do regardless and I think we all admire and respect you for that. The fact that you are only twenty-two blows my mind, but considering all you have told me so far, you have been at it for a long time learning what it takes to make it in the music business. JBO: As you of course know, Jennifer Hartswick has been with T.A.B. pretty much from the beginning. When I saw the band play at the LockN’ Festival, I noticed you guys talking to each other a lot when you weren’t playing, like you’re great friends. Has she been a huge mentor to you as well? Natalie: Totally…Yeah! She’s like a big sister. I think that having another woman to be on the road with is very awesome and rare. Having that close sisterly bond with someone makes making music together super easy, because it’s like we finish each other’s sentences. JBO: So how did you end up getting hired to be in Trey’s band? Natalie: Well, it was actually from my dad. He played with Trey during a 2005 tour, and when Trey was getting the band back together in 2009, he contacted my dad about touring again, but my dad was committed to doing something with Santana at the time. Trey explained to him that he was looking for a trombone player who could also sing. So my dad told Trey that if he was looking for a singing trombonist, that he knows this girl who is eighteen who lives in New York on a full ride at Manhattan School of Music, and I think she can do a good job. He then said, “And by the way…she just happens to be my daughter.” Natalie: So Trey was awesome, because he actually followed through with that by having his manager get in touch with me. I sent him some of my music and then Trey ended up contacting me himself, telling me about the project and how he hoped this could work out. He then sent me to have a very informal audition sitting in with Jen. She was playing a gig in New York, so I came by and played a song with her, and hung out with her for a couple hours. We really hit it off right away. JBO: Was Trey there? Natalie: Trey wasn’t there. He and Jen are really close…and musically close too, so he trusted that she would know whether I would be a good fit or not. So Jen and I had such a great time playing and hanging out and she gave Trey the okay, and that’s how I got hired. JBO: That is awesome! You got hired before even having met Trey in person? That is a great story. JBO: Did you have to drop out of school? Natalie: Nope. I managed to stay in school actually, which was incredible to me. So kind of by the skin of my teeth, I made it through four years of touring and being in school. But yeah, I was just sitting in my college dorm room one day when I got the call from Trey out of the blue that he wanted me to do the tour. It was crazy! JBO: So what is it like being on the road with someone as fun, and of course talented, as Trey? It must be so much fun! Natalie: Yeah, he’s incredible. He has so much energy and is just so enthusiastic about everything. You know, his positivity is just like medicine to me, and I get really inspired working with him. He has also been a great mentor for me, and has shown me a lot of cool new music, because he listens to so many kinds, including even pop music from my generation that I don’t even check out. He will be like, ‘This song….you gotta listen to this…this song is great!’ So yeah, he’s incredible and funny and goofy (laughs), but I feel really more like we’re a family. Having Trey and then Russ, Tony and Ray. They’re all around my parent’s age, so it feels like they are kind of like uncles. JBO: Awesome! Now who wouldn’t want Trey Anastasio to be their cool uncle? So you have your own project too, I see? Natalie: Yes, we are putting out another CD in March and we’re going to tour the Northeast. I like to write a lot and I am also starting to produce other people’s music, as well. JBO: Wow…You go! Natalie: Yeah, so I have a lot of stuff I am working on. I am kind of all over the place and everything is very eclectic and different. JBO: Just wondering if there are any other tricks up your sleeve that you are working on that I might have not asked you? We would love to promote anything. Natalie: Well…we have a preorder on my website for the new CD that’s called Turn the Sea at http://nataliecressman.bandcamp.com/, we have a CD release tour coming up (dates at bottom of this page), and we just put out a music video too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMKhiIAdZN4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> . Natalie: And believe it or not, I have a baking video blog on my YouTube channel where I invite musicians to come and bake something with me in the kitchen to help me make sweets…and while our stuff is baking in the oven, we play songs. JBO: Oh wow! That’s an amazing idea! Natalie: Yeah, we have a few episodes up including one with Jen, so would love you to mention that and share the link. It’s pretty goofy fun! JBO: No problem at all: JBO: Well, after getting to know you, I must say that you are a very down-to-earth grounded person, as well as talented, and I think you are an inspiration. Trey made a very wise decision. Natalie: Well thank you! This was a fun interview and I appreciate it very much. JBO: I have just one final question…Why do they call you, “Chainsaw?” Natalie: Well, on my first tour, my friends from school came to a show on Valentine’s Day, and made me a card. They drew a stick figure of me with a trombone, but it was so poorly drawn that it looked more like a chainsaw. So then Trey and Chris Kuroda had the idea that it should be my new nickname and it just stuck! JBO: LOVE IT! For more information about Natalie, please visit her website: http://www.nataliecressman.com/ Her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/natcressmanmusic. And here are her CD release date… March 20th Boston, MA – Church March 21st Burlington, VT – Nectar’s March 22nd Lake Placid, NY – Smoke Signals March 26th Plains, PA – River Street jazz Café March 27th Portsmouth, NH – The Press Room March 28th Manchester, CT – The Main Pub March 30th New York, NY – Joe’s Pub Tweet Share this: Twitter

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