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Troy Sawyer says Girls Can Play Trumpets, Too
Trumpeter Troy Sawyer’s program teaches trumpet to girls ages eight to nineteen.
As important as trumpet is in New Orleans, young women and girls haven’t played the instrument in significant numbers in the home of jazz. Troy Sawyer, a trumpeter, band leader and music educator, wants to change that.
Vintage vinyl treasures (Episode 21)
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring. For many artists back in the day, their sophomore albums represented a make-or-break effort with their respective record labels if their debut releases did not sell as well as anticipated.
Rhythm Is The First Component: New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibit Drumsville modulates to book form
In 2018, Robert H. Cataliotti, an author and educator from Maryland, co-curated the Drumsville! exhibit with Jazz Museum music curator David Kunian. Cataliotti has now written Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat, an extensively researched and illustrated 228-page book published by LSU Press.
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 20)
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring. This month’s installment features five women of my vintage vinyl collection that never fail to lift my spirits and ultimately bring me back home. That is the mark of a great album.
Unlimited Potential: Chapel Hart wins the hearts of country music fans
Rising to the America’s Got Talent finals this summer, the New Orleans-based Chapel Hart won millions of new fans. The country music trio featuring sisters Danica and Devynn Hart and […]
Vintage Vinyl: Treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 19)
The month of October always reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughan (SRV) who was born on October 3, 1954. His life was cut short at 35 years of age in […]
October Festivals
Why are so many festivals in October? October is generally the driest month of the year in New Orleans, and the weather is warm but pleasant with mild to cool […]
Good Karma: Baton Rouge’s Karma and the Killjoys make their New Orleans debut
For convenience’s sake, Karma and the Killjoys call their music “piano rock.” But that easy-to-digest label belies the female-led band’s bold fusion of pop, rock and musical theater. The head-turning […]
Pushing Their Comfort Zone: PUP’s Stefan Babcock on coping with mental illness and the band’s return to New Orleans
It’s no surprise Stefan Babcock, frontman of PUP, works through mental illness by writing songs and making fun of himself. But as far as coping mechanisms go, there really couldn’t […]
Music Quest: Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 17)
This group of five vintage records brought on the nostalgia quick, fast and in a hurry. Each album had me wondering where I was, who I was with and what […]
