Mardi Gras with the St. Augustine High School Marching 100

Chances are that if you are going to one or more Mardi Gras parades this season, at some point, you’ll be entertained by the purple and gold clad St. Augustine […]

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Tommy Ridgley

For 50 years, Tommy Ridgley has been one of the great and enduring rhythm and blues artists in New Orleans. A regal, confident and engaging performer, he has never had […]

Sammy The “Other” Ridgley

It might seem convenient or a courtesy to write about Sammy Ridgley in an OffBeat issue that features his brother on the cover, and presents him with a Lifetime achievement […]

The Many Sides of the Late Johnny Adams

Earl Gaines, Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Black Top)

Roscoe Shelton, Let It Shine (Black Top)

Bobby Marchan-The Ace Years

Rockin’ Dopsie Jr.

Since taking over his late father’s band—the Zydeco Twisters—in 1993, David Rubin a.k.a Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., has become one of New Orleans’s premier attractions. Dopsie has been able to preserve […]

Frank “Lefty” Mitchell, Mason Ruffner & the Bernards

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Various, Kings of New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll (Music Club)

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