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YouTube du Jour: Louis Armstrong & Johnny Cash
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqc209-rwNI[/youtube] The Satchmo SummerFest starts Thursday at 7 p.m. with the kickoff party at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe. Here’s Armstrong when he guested on The Johnny Cash Show in […]
13th Annual French Film Festival: What the French?
For anyone who’s wondered what a French movie version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale might look like, the 13th annual French Film Festival can show you. Presented […]
Spike Lee’s HBO Follow-up Documentary Scheduled
Four years after Spike Lee’s Peabody-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Lee continues his efforts to document life after Hurricane Katrina. His new documentary, If […]
YouTube du Jour: John Mooney
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu136rUAC6E&feature=related[/youtube] John Mooney returns to Chickie Wah Wah tonight for an evening of solo blues. Here he is in 2007 at a Swedish blues festival playing “I’m a Country Boy.”
Story Time with Rasputina
Melora Creager’s inspiration for Sister Kinderhook’s “Snow-Hen of Austerlitz”? Feral children. “I was obsessed with this feral children Web site, and the song just came out really easily,” Creager, the […]
Cruise with Quintron and Pussycat
Next February, Quintron and Miss Pussycat will be part of the Bruise Cruise, sailing and performing on a Carnival Cruise line from Miami to Nassau. They’ll be joined by the […]
YouTube du Jour: Wilson and Moore
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPH8oGW4f8[/youtube] Guitarist Chip Wilson and R&B Jesse Moore recently debuted their video for the hopeful “You’ll Get Through It” from their Threadhead Records’ album, Side by Side.
Jazz for the Gulf Benefit Concert Tonight
As Ben Jaffe points out in this month’s issue of OffBeat, the oil spill has become our region’s gravest problem, and one will that we will be fighting for year’s […]
Ponderosa Stomp 2010 Lineup Additions
September’s Ponderosa Stomp Festival has some changes to its roster. The festival has just added swamp bluesman Jimmy Dotson, gospel group The Relatives, New Orleans rock ‘n’ roll star Joyce […]
Brand-New: DJ Quickie Mart’s New Orleans Funk and Soul Mix
Martin Arceneaux, aka DJ Quickie Mart, collected vinyl 45s for years. He played with nearly every bonafide funk band in New Orleans. He suffered through Katrina’s aftermath and continued playing gigs […]
