The 20th annual New Orleans International Music Colloquium (NOIMC), entitled “Benevolent Societies, Stage Shows & New Orleans Music,” will take place on Sunday, April 10.
The NOIMC is an annual series of informal presentations, panels and interviews by local scholars and musicians, exploring the history and heritage of New Orleans music. It is free and open to the public.
This year’s program colloquium will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The event takes place at 6330 St. Charles Avenue, it is free and open to the public.
For more information on the event, visit www.noimc.org
2016 New Orleans International Music Colloquium Schedule
Welcome & Coffee
9:00 am Musicians’ Burial Sites & Cemetery Research Methods: Emily Ford
10:00 am The Word Minstrel (Meaning to Sing) & Examples of the Music: Panel with Justin Winston, Carolyn Kolb, Charles Chamberlain & Jack Stewart, moderator
11:00 am Danny Barker in New Orleans: Jon Pult
12:00 pm The Oddfellows in New Orleans: Panel discussion with Michael Duplantier, Jack Stewart & Ann Woodruff
1:00 pm Three Hundred Years of Women in New Orleans Music: Carolyn Kolb
2:00 pm Indigenous & French Musical Interactions in Colonial Louisiana: Shane Lief
3:00 pm Italians in New Orleans Music – Upcoming Museum Exhibit: Frank Maselli, American Italian Cultural Center
4:00 pm Minstrel Shows, Medicine Shows & Tent Shows: Panel with Rick Coleman, Shane Lief, Dan Meyer, Kathryn Hobgood Ray & Jack Stewart, moderator
5:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Restoration Society’s “Origins of Jazz” Project: Bob McIntyre
6:00 pm Darensbourg Family History: Joe Darensbourg
7:00 pm Early Cylinder & Edison Records with Bands & Marching Pieces That Became Part of the New Orleans Repertoire: John McCusker playing actual historic phonographs
8:00 pm Preliminary Research on San Domingue/Haiti: The Diaspora & its Effect on New Orleans Culture: Jack Stewart, with music by Carolyn Kolb
