Sacramento's merry band of funkateers, The Nibblers, opened up for New Orleans' party-funk phenomena Big Sam's Funky Nation on Sunday night at Harlow’s. Wowzers. I don't know much, but I do know that whenever our Nibblers join forces with a New Orleans powerfunk group led by a virtuoso slide trombonist featured prominently in HBO's "Treme," you better drop whatever you're doing and head on over. It is always an incredible show. I wasn't feeling well on Sunday evening, to the point where I was actively soliciting offers to take over my spot covering the show.  (By "actively soliciting offers", I mean "updating my Facebook status from bed".) Boy, am I glad I didn't find any takers. I

 Trombone Shorty is blowing up.  The onetime child prodigy (he started playing at age three, was a bandleader at age six and was touring the world with Lenny Kravitz at 18) is now 24, and he's everywhere.  Maybe you saw him on stage with The Dave Matthews Band at the "NFL Opening Kickoff 2010."   Or maybe you've seen him on HBO's hit show "Treme."  Perhaps you caught him and his band, Orleans Avenue, on Letterman a few months back. If you have yet to experience Trombone Shorty and his unique brand of "supafunkrock," despair not – you'll have plenty more opportunities, beginning with his show Friday night at Harlow's.  He agreed to take a few minutes out of his very busy schedule to speak

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is a musician's musician. The prodigy started playing music at age 3 and got his big break at age 4 sharing the stage with Bo Diddley. "It was so long ago I can't remember," said Andrews, now 24. "I remember my mom saying I was playing (trombone) and some people crowd-surfed me to the stage, and they put me on the stage, and that was it." He earned his name because he could play a trombone before even being as tall as the horn. Sunday night, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue will play their high-energy set at Harlow's. Opening will be The Nibblers, a seven-piece rock band led by local singer Hans Eberbach and Mumbo Gumbo members Lynn Michael Palmer, Jon W