The Tropicales bring a 1950s Caribbean hotel party to life with torrid horns, tropical rhythms and infectious grooves. With a nod to New Orleans’ history as the northernmost port of the Caribbean, The Tropicales perform music from Trinidad and Venezuela, Martinique and Guadeloupe, and other destinations along the archipelago.

A fixture of the Crescent City's traditional jazz and Frenchmen Street scene, The Tropicales entertain regularly at festivals and clubs around the city. Frontman Charlie Halloran has released five albums under his own name, and made countless records alongside U2, Rickie Lee Jones, Trombone Shorty, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, John Boutte, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Pokey Lafarge and Luke Winslow King. Additionally, Charlie’s horn is in the background on plenty of episodes of NCIS New Orleans, Treme, and other films and television programs produced in New Orleans. Charlie is a familiar face to everyone at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival where he often performs more than 10 times a year alongside traditional jazz legends, plus Jon Cleary, Allen Toussaint, Calexico, the O'Jays, Irma Thomas, and many more. 

The Harker School is a non-profit, private K-12 school in Silicon Valley that has earned international recognition for its top academics, quality teachers and students' achievements. Founded in 1893, Harker is the largest independent school of its kind in California, with a dedicated campus for each of its divisions – elementary school, middle school and upper school – in San Jose, Calif.