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Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary has clearly arrived, and now he has a new recording to follow suit. Moonburn, his long-awaited major label debut for Virgin/Pointblank Records, is set for release April 20 […]
Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary has clearly arrived, and now he has a new recording to follow suit. Mooburn his long-awaited major label debut for Virgin/Pointblank Records, is set for release April 20 […]
Choirs Will Be Singing: Charles Brown Dies at 76
New Orleans, bastion of Catholicism that it is, may have a higher cathedral-per-person ratio than anywhere outside of Europe. For its citizens, however, the coming of the Christmas holiday has […]
Various Artists, River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi (Smithsonian Folkways)
Beginning at the headwaters of the Mississippi and traveling its length out to the Gulf, the River of Song project sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution – a four-part care video […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 4
From the sounds of Jelly Roll Morton to Clifton Chenier to Fats Domino and the Neville Brothers, Louisiana music has consistently proven itself as timeless and diverse. New Orleans is […]
The Future of Live Music, Best of the Beat & More
It’s time to reflect on the past year and plan for the new. The live music scene is definitely going through major changes in New Orleans, with several new clubs […]
Lazy Lester is All Over You
It’s been over two decades since Lazy Lester left Louisiana for Michigan, but the timeless harmonica-driven sound he forged for Excello Records in the mid-’50s and early ’60s still courses […]
Levon Helm
As one of the founding members of The Band, Levon Helm helped rewrite rock and roll history. In one stretch from 1965-1969, Helm and his bandmates broke all the musical […]
Irma in Birmingham & Louisiana Blues News
Sometimes it takes a vacation to make you realize how good you’ve got it at home. Birmingham, Alabama’s City Stages festival seems to be loosely modeled after Jazz Fest, boasting […]
Best and Worst of Jazz Fest 1998, The Fans’ Perspective
Once again this year, the Internet and, especially, the World Wide Web proved an invaluable tool for Jazz Fest visitors as well as an open forum for music fans to […]
