Ingrid Lucia plays French Quarter Festival on Friday, April 14, 2023 at the Pan-American Life Insurance Group Stage from 12:35 p.m. until 1:50 p.m.

In New York in the 1990s, Ingrid Lucia and her traditional jazz band, the Flying Neutrinos, flirted with the big time. New York audiences loved them and a recording deal with the Universal Music-linked Fiction Records was in the works. But the deal didn’t happen and the music business, in general, didn’t know what to do with Lucia and ...