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Cyril Neville Preserves Neighborhood Culture
If you see Cyril Neville perform this year, you’ll probably hear a song called “Don’t Wait ’Till I’m Gone.” It’s a typically fiery bit of funk, with lyrics that say what a lot of well-traveled musicians are probably thinking: “Give me my flowers while I can still smell them, hear my stories while I can still tell them. Give me my medals while I can still wear them. Don’t wait till I’m gone!”
Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is: My Story (Hachette Book Group)
Aaron Neville relates his life story like he sings a song; he makes it very sincere and personal.
Aaron Neville Talks Back
Even though he’s retired from performing, Aaron Neville is having a banner year. In February, the beloved singer from New Orleans won his fifth Grammy Award. His winning song, a collaboration with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band called “Stompin’ Ground,” appears in the music documentary Take Me to the River: New Orleans.
Hey Hey, All Together: Ivan Neville’s Touch My Soul is his first solo album in 19 years
If you’re a renowned New Orleans artist and you want to write a song about the need for everyone to get along, it will probably come out funky and uplifting. But if you’re Ivan Neville, you can also pull out your address book and get a dream team of guests to perform it with you.
My Music: Charmaine Neville
Born into the third generation of a legendary musical family in New Orleans, daughter of the late sax player Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers, Charmaine Neville has nonetheless worked hard to […]
Tell It Like It Is: A look back at Aaron Neville’s career and life
Aaron Neville posted the following to Facebook and his official website on Thursday, May 6, 2021: Dear Friends… I have had such an incredible and blessed journey as a musician, […]
Righteous Aspirations: Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk are surviving and thriving
Echoing life for musicians everywhere, last year was strangely inactive for Ivan Neville and his bandmates in the funk-rock band Dumpstaphunk. When the coronavirus spread worldwide—hitting post-Mardi Gras New Orleans […]
[Watch] The Caesar Brothers Talk Back
Growing up in the 13th ward of New Orleans, the Caesar Brothers were raised on the Meters, Wild Tchoupitoulas and funked their way to working with George Clinton, the Neville […]
NOLA Crawfish Festival is back with Anders Osborne, Art Neville tribute & more
The NOLA Crawfish Festival continues its fifth year of Music, crawfish and beer from April 27-29, during the week between Jazz Fest weekends at Central City BBQ’s Smoke Yard. The […]
Art Neville Memorial
Grief is not an emotion that invites comparisons. It is an overwhelming, supernatural sense of loss that is an essential part of human consciousness, the realization that a part of […]
