Bio

4:35 on a Thursday uses its mixture of rock, brass, and badass to bring a new flavor into the music scene of today. Two days before their high school’s Battle of the Bands audition, Leon High School Performing Arts Students E.R. Noche, Kody Glazer, Dylan Repasky, Jesse Woodall, and Ian Maser decided to get together to jam on marching band music. After this jam session, the group decided to put together a set-list to audition for this Battle of the Bands. This band, formed because of a rush of excitement, put together a performance in two days. Without a name, the group decided to go with their audition time: 4:35 on a Thursday. With the eight musicians’ own individual backgrounds in jazz, classical, funk, steel drum, marching band, and hip-hop, they form a unique blend of horns and guitars. Performing songs with these influences have given the group what is called the “4:35 sound.” In a culture run by mainstream pop and rock, 4:35 joins together to show its listeners that with great passion comes enjoyable music, no matter what the instrumentation. The members of 4:35 believe that if they can show the audience how much they love performing and creating with passion, then the crowd will love listening. Resembling the instrumentation of a New Orleans Brass Band, this group is composed of two trombones, a mellophone, a saxophonist, two guitars, bass, and drums, surprises people with their blend on genres. This has lead to their motto, “Don’t change the band, just change the song!” Inspired by artists such as Galactic, Youngblood Brass Band, FAMU Marching 100, Streetlight Manifesto and Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 4:35 is beginning to establish its own sound and hopes to revive the New Orleans horn sound in modern-day music. 4:35 on a Thursday’s love for music continues to attract new fans with every show. No matter where 4:35 ends up, no one can put a price on the happiness they get from performing the music they love most with the people they love the most.