Matt Stewart, Trumpet Player in Streetlight Manifesto, Dies at 41

Matt Stewart, the longtime trumpet participant within the ska punk band Streetlight Manifesto, died on the age of 41 on Sunday (Sept. 10), the band has confirmed. The group stated he died of pure causes.

Tributes to the late musician have began pouring in, as BrooklynVegan confirmed. Stewart had been in Streetlight Manifesto, the Tomas Kalnoky-led act based in early-2000s New Jersey, for the previous 16 years. And from the tributes, it is clear that Stewart had a optimistic affect on many within the scene.

See the band’s full publish under.

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“Right now, Sunday, September tenth, 2023, at round 3:30pm, our pal, trumpet participant, and very long time Streetlight member of the family Matthew Brandon Stewart handed away from pure causes,” Streetlight Manifesto stated on Instagram. “He was surrounded by household and buddies. He was 41 years outdated.”

They continued, “A few of you recognize Matt strictly from our data or stay exhibits, as a trumpet participant whose expertise was plain; uncooked, highly effective and alive. His taking part in lower by way of when it wanted to chop by way of, sang when it was essential to sing and sat completely within the combine when that was what was requested of it. Right now you misplaced a musical powerhouse.”

They added, “Others of you recognize Matt just a little higher, as a lot of you have got interacted with him instantly, be it on-line or after … a present. He was at all times roaming round, outdoors of golf equipment, backstage…”

R.I.P. Matt Stewart of Streetlight Manifesto

The band stated Stewart “typically had a stranger with him. Whether or not it was a fan, excited to fulfill him, an area crew member taking pictures the shit with a pleasant musician or a random homeless dude, sharing a smoke. He was by no means impolite to anybody he met and was fast to make new acquaintances.”

They defined, “Right now you misplaced a pleasant, wandering spirit, as prone to speak your ear off about jazz as he was to place your title on the visitor record.”

Stewart seems on Streetlight Manifesto’s three newest albums — 2013’s The Palms That Thieve, 2010’s 99 Songs of Revolution: Vol 1, and 2007’s Someplace within the Between. He joined the band in 2007, supplanting Delano Bonner, who had changed the act’s authentic trumpeter, Jamie Egan.

Loudwire sends its condolences out to Stewart’s household, buddies and bandmates. See some extra tributes to Stewart beneath the publish.