Issue Articles — Features
Partners in Jazz: Alia Shawkat’s unlikely collaboration with New Orleans Swamp Donkeys
FRIDAY, MAY 5—ECONOMY HALL TENT, 4:25 P.M. If you’re familiar with Alia Shawkat, there’s a good chance it’s because of her work on the new dark comedy Search Party […]
Honoring Fallen Musicians: Tributes to Buckwheat Zydeco at Festival International and Jazz Fest
A TRIBUTE TO BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO: SATURDAY, MAY 6—BLUES TENT, 2:35 P.M. “Buckwheat is special to the whole world,” says Corey “Lil Pop” Ledet, zydeco accordionist and participant in the […]
Built on Heritage: Jazz Fest Developed Its Identity Through Repetition
Since its inception, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has sought to pair big name touring acts with local talent. This was meant to maximize crowds: tourists unfamiliar with […]
Sacred and Profane: The festival-opening invocation by Michael Skinkus and Moyuba
MICHAEL SKINKUS & MOYUBA: FRIDAY, APRIL 28—LAGNIAPPE STAGE, 11:30 A.M Jazz Fest 48 will be remembered as the year New Orleans officially rekindled its African diaspora cultural connection to […]
French Quarter Festival from A to Z: Your guide to every act at this year’s FQF
French Quarter Fest 2017 will feature more than 1,700 local artists on 24 stages spread throughout the Quarter. Our comprehensive and definitive guide to this year’s festival will help you […]
Big Bites of Street Culture: Photographer Michelle Elmore’s three new books
There’s a black and white photo of Glen David Andrews, clad in a crisp suit and brass band hat, hanging in a breakfast and lunch joint called The Hummingbird in […]
High Society: English import Andrew Hall celebrates 50 years of his Society Brass Band
Andrew Hall met David Bowie on just one occasion. “Wild, that was,” says Hall, sharing with textbook British dry wit the story of Bowie’s after-party for the 1970 “Night in […]
Next Level: Three daughters from three iconic fathers now set their own stage
New Orleans is known for its great musical families and jazz lineages where music is a craft, a business and a passion passed on from one generation to the next. […]
Booking It: French Quarter Fest’s Greg Schatz likes the crowd to be surprised
Local musicians are rarely given any real power or influence. Musicians generally don’t own nightclubs. Music journalists don’t often make music themselves. But in 2008, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Greg “Schatzy” […]
Super Sunday: Injuns Here Dey Come… Again
The New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council is perhaps best recognized by the general population for presenting its spectacular Indian Super Sunday parade. It’s held annually Uptown on the third […]
