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Slim’s Picks: Insider’s Guide to Music
Almost Slim is an authority on New Orleans R&B, Louisiana zydeco and blues. A legend for his vast, opinionated wealth of knowledge, we asked him to make some recommendations for […]
Cajun Cruisin’: OffBeat’s Second Annual Insider’s Guide to Acadiana, Part Two
You can find Cajun and Creole culture in Lafayette, the “Heart of Cajun Country” as it’s referred to in tourist brochures, but you’ll find much more cultural authenticity outside the […]
Inside Zydeco, Part One
“Honey, in a bar on in a church, it doesn’t make no difference—it’s all the same.” Zydeco. More than just South Louisiana black man’s music, it’s his sustenance. Consumed like […]
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Nick LaRocca’s Jazz Pioneers
Only four years before I learned to play the trumpet…the first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominic James LaRocca. They called him […]
Jazz Fest: Time to Get Out the Sunblock
Here it is—the complete schedule of what’s happening at the 20th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the greatest music, food and crafts event in the country. Almost 3,000 musicians, […]
Dr. John: New Orleans’ Favorite Physician
If you haven’t been able to locate the elusive “Dr. Feel Good,” look no further. When you hear the pounding, driving, thumping, gutsy sounds erupting from the keyboard with New […]
The Voodoo That We Do
The days are long past when it was fairly commonplace, under the light of a full moon, for large and varied masses of people to chant strange hypnotic chants and […]
They Call Us Wild: The Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans
“There is never a dull momentin the streetwhere the Zulus & the Indians& the Baby Dollslive & play. in the streetswhere every nightis Saturday night…” -Robert Tallent, […]
