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Grooveline Horns

WE WERE ON LIVE EARTH!

About Me

*NEW* Visit the Grooveline web site to see live performances w/ Kelly Clarkson during the "Live Earth" concert! www.groovelinehorns.com

Austin, Texas:
Every SUNDAY with Boombox at The Speakeasy

2005 Latin Grammy Winner with "La Mafia"
Best Groupera Album

Best Horn Section - Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll
1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2003,2006

2004 Dove Gospel Gospel Music Award with "Salvador"
Best Spanish Language Album of the Year

Bands the Grooveline have performed with:
Jason Mraz, Rob Thomas, Blues Traveler, Willie Nelson, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Luscious Jackson, The Meters, Don Henley, Bob Schneider, The Scabs, Boombox, Ivan Nevillie's Dumpstaphunk, Billy Bob Thornton, Pat Green, La Mafia, Salvador, Ian Moore, Vallejo, Ugly Americans, Doyle Bramhall w/ Double Trouble, La Tribu, Stephan Bruton, Nick Daniels, Raymond Webber, Kim Wilson, Ozomatli & more...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: groovelinehorns.com
Band Members: Carlos Sosa - Saxophone
Fernie Castillo - Trumpet
Ralo Vallejo - Trombone

Influences: Earth, Wind & Fire, JB's, Maceo Parker, Parliament, Funkadelic, Chicago, Cameo, Ohio Player, Chocolate Milk, Mandrill, Slave, Phoenix Horns, Memphis Horns.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Grooveline Horns Journal 9 New Orleans House of Blues

New Orleans 4/21/08 So out of all the gigs on the tour, I think the horns have been really looking forward to New Orleans. It is as close to Austin as we are going to get on this tour and probabl...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:53:00 PST

Virginia Is For Lovers (of funky music)!

What's up bitches, it's me. . .t-bone.Fri - 4/18 - Richmond, VA - The NationalThis place is an old hall that has recently been rennovated. The upstairs green room is still somewhat under construction...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:06:00 PST

Grooveline Horns Journal 7 Wake Forest University and Davidson College

Hi There. So it has been a couple of days. Wake Forest University So usually like I said we wake up in the morning and the bus is right outside the venue. Well, in this case it was the college. I t...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:03:00 PST

Grooveline Horns Journal 6 (New York New York)

New York! New York! What can I say about New York that hasn't already been said about it. I love this city but I wouldn't want to live there. I know what I am in for when I get here. All the soun...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

Grooveline Horns Journal 6 (Good Old Philly)

So, this is crazy. We are trying to catch up on these journals. It seems as though you miss one they just start piling up on us. We will catch up though. So the first thing I remember waking up to...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:56:00 PST

Grooveline Horns Journal 5 4/12/08 University of Pittsburgh (Cougar City)

So, after Selinsgrove,PA, we drive to Pittsburgh. I feel like we are in a transporter from Star Trek. We get finished with a gig (11 pm) and then usually have a bus call at about 2 am. So you can go h...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

Grooveline Horns Journal 4 4/11/08 Selinsgrove,PA

So, I guess I will do another blog. It has been kind of crazy this week. It seems as though we were in Pennsylvania for a week. Not that there is anything wrong with that. First we went to Selinsgrove...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:24:00 PST

The Two Day Drive

Grooveline Journal Entry 3 So, we had a couple of days of after the Troubadour in LA. That was a great show. We then left the Troubadour at about 2:30 am. We had two days to make it to Chicago. T...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PST

Grooveline and Mraz Magic Show

Okay, let’s see here, what day is it and where are we? It looks like we’re parked at the entry point of Utah from Arizona. I guess they charge large vehicles for the use of there highway...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST

Carlos Journal Entry

I this our goal is to keep people informed about whats going on here. We have decided to trade days between the three of us. So we will have journal entries every day. We will see if it actually happe...
Posted by Grooveline Horns on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:33:00 PST