Issue Articles — Features
Stars Within Reach: The Winners at Best of the Beat
The Best of the Beat Awards, honoring Louisiana musicians, were held on January 21 at Generations Hall. Nominees in over 50 categories attended, not only hoping to be recognized for […]
Jam Cruise: A Festival Junkie’s Dream
There really is no place like Jam Cruise. Jam Cruise is essentially Jazz Fest on a boat. Or maybe it’s Mardi Gras on boat. Or Frenchmen Street on a […]
Burning Bright: The 50 best albums of 2015
We’ve polled our writers and editorial staff and have gathered 50 of our most recommended albums of the year. We didn’t include reissues and only included releases reviewed in 2015. […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Germaine Bazzle
“Teaching was what I was supposed to do—the [music] gigs are what I could do,” says an emphatic Germaine Bazzle, the 2015 recipient of OffBeat’s Lifetime Achievement in Music Education […]
Celebrate Louisiana’s Loves: The nominees for Best of the Beat
In early December OffBeat solicited nominations from musicians and others in the music community. We gave these results to our writers and editors and, with input from both, determined the […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Roland and Mary Von Kurnatowski
For New Orleans music devotees, Tipitina’s has long served as an icon of the city’s music history and the local music scene’s communal spirit. But that’s not what compelled Roland […]
Heartbeat Award: Catherine Lasperches
When Catherine Lasperches walks into an examination room at the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic or meets a patient in the hall, she enthusiastically greets them using their first name. Since […]
A Disappearing Breed: Breton Sound’s Classic Pop-Rock
A few hours before I was set to interview Breton Sound frontman Jonathan Pretus, I happened to run into him on a Facebook thread. Nothing unusual there, except that it […]
Corks Out
Local couples make ballsy wine—in Lakeview Neil Gernon and his wife Monica Bourgeois, along with his sister Laura Gernon and his sister’s husband Grant Schexnider, make world-class wine—in Lakeview. […]
The Language of Music: Jonathan Freilich
“Stop talking about culture and experience it!” A prolific musician and composer—and founder of the Naked Orchestra and the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars—Jonathan Freilich is widely known for his […]
