
About
Make Your Event Unforgettable
Meet the Stompers – a gumbo of full-time, touring musicians bringing non-stop party energy from the Jersey Shore to wherever you need us. Think New Orleans brass meets Jersey Shore soul, with a dash of everything in between!
Where NOLA brass meets Jersey Shore soul, and every event is a party

House Band
Need a band to back a touring artist? The Ocean Avenue Stompers is a collective of top-tier professionals who’ve shared the stage with legends like Jon Batiste, Gloria Gaynor, Southside Johnny, and Vulfpeck. With experience at iconic venues like Red Rocks and the Newport Jazz Festival, we bring the skill, versatility, and energy needed to elevate any performance.
Wedding Band
Make your big day unforgettable with the Ocean Avenue Stompers’ custom wedding band experience. Our 8-10 piece high-energy band provides up to four hours of seamless music, tailored to your unique tastes. With professional MC services, a top-notch sound system, and a dynamic setlist, we’ll keep the energy flowing all night long.
Looking for more? Add a brass band for cocktail hour or live ceremony entertainment. Whether it’s soulful strings or bold brass, we’ll help create the perfect soundtrack for your wedding.


DJ Hybrid
Take your event to the next level with the Ocean Avenue Stompers’ DJ Hybrid package. This high-energy experience combines a top-rated DJ with live horns and a drummer, delivering the best of both worlds. Enjoy a seamless three-hour dance set featuring live musicianship alongside expertly curated tracks.
Frequently Asked Questions
We are a collective of full-time, touring musicians local to the Jersey Shore, Philadelphia and NYC music scenes brought together by band leader and trombonist Ian Gray.
Our network meets for regular weekly gigs in Asbury Park and has 50+ musicians who share their talent when the Stompers perform live, if they’re not our touring the world! When you hire the Stompers, you know you’re hiring the highest level of musicianship our bandleader can bring together to make your event one no one will ever forget.
Ian Gray is the owner of Ocean Avenue Stompers LLC - a registered business in the state of New Jersey.
By (our) definition
Ocean Avenue Stomper noun - an authentic creative. A music fan. A studied performer with confident improvisational skills. A producer of positive, meaningful experiences that create memories that last more than a lifetime.
Our members are all top professionals, which means they can (and DO) get the big call often to tour and play big festivals. When you book us, your booking our network and not individual artists. This allows our artists the ability to schedule their creative endearvours and still get the call from us. We book lineups typically 2-3 months before an event so that their is plenty of time for everyone to be best prepared to play what you want to rock to at your event.
Members of our band have performed with the likes of:
Cory Wong, Start Making Sense: a Talking Heads Tribute, Dogs in a Pile, Jon Batiste, Vulfpeck, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, LaBamba & the Hubcaps, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, the Everyone Orchestra, High and Mighty Brass Band, Brassaholics, Octave Cat, Melody Gardot, Thank You Scientist, Ripe, Gloria Gaynor, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Remember Jones, David Lee Roth, Darlene Love, Ronnie Spektor
Venues like:
Red Rocks, Carnegie Hall, Stone Pony Summer Stage, the Sea.Hear.Now Festival, PNC Arts Center, NYC Summerstage, the Beacon Theater, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Newport Jazz Festival, the Super Bowl.
We want say we do it all - but let’s stick to what we’re really good at here:
Ocean Avenue Stompers - 5-8 of us doing our thing. PLAYLIST
Stompers Brass Band - 6+ of us totally mobile. PLAYLIST
Custom Wedding Band (view our wedding services here)
Ocean Avenue Stompers Horns - Check us out with Start Making Sense
DJ + Live Band Hybrid feat. Drums / Horns What is this?
This is the ideal choice for anyone struggling to decide between a live band or DJ. Picking this package gives you full control on hearing the songs you want to hear while having live drums and horns breath that energy into the room that only live music can bring! This group is anchored by our DJ who works to keep the drummer grooving to the beat all night long and features horns in moments that will bring the dancefloor energy up past where any standalone DJ can bring the party.
(view our wedding services here)
DJ
Ocean Avenue Swingers - post modern jukebox meets 20/30s hot jazz for your 20’s party
House Band - need a band to back a touring artist up?
We have a huge network of musicians and friends beyond the immediate Stompers network we would be happy to connect you with including:
DJs
Duos
Strings
Wedding Entertainment
Private Event Entertainment
Live sound
Lighting
Yes, we do travel! We consider our home radius to be most places within a 90 minute drive from either Philadelphia, Asbury Park, and/or NYC.
Outside that area, we start to equate the expenses: airbnb, flight (we're great at flying), hotel rooms, uber, shuttle, etc.
While we have to be somewhat selective when we travel out of our home area, it REALLY helps light our fire to get the Stompers out there beyond Asbury Park! Most Stompers have travelled touring the country for years, making connections to venues, local musicians and more along the way. We can make a gig happen in most of the major cities in the US and even Europe.
It's a big world, but thanks to social media / the internet, the musicians world we live in is small, supportive and connected. Most of us love to travel so no matter how far, please do reach out with questions to oceanavenuestompers@gmail.com with any date & location in the subject line!
We're just finalizing our 2024 rates. Send us an email with date / location / venue in Subject Line as well as what service you're interested in to oceanavenuestompers@gmail.com and we can get you a quote. We might want to set up a call or ask some follow up questions in order to fully understand what service best fits your occasion in order to send you an exact quote. Additional services can always be added after a quote is agreed upon or contract is signed.