Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the country before his family settled in Glenview when he was in third grade. With a steady pulse of Broadway tunes in his veins, Burke said he knew music was going to be his life.
"I often said, and I've felt it to be true in my heart, that I really didn't choose the trumpet. It kind of chose me," he said. "As soon as I was old enough, there's pictures of me super tiny holding a trumpet."