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2022 Jazz Fest Redux
The headline Jazz Fest Redux first appeared in OffBeat’s June 2000 issue. Although a Jazz Fest recap was published in every June issue since the magazine started in 1988, headlines […]
All you need is roux: A personal Jazz Fest retrospective
Jazz Fest popped my cherry in 1988, when I hit the mud running and instantly went native, gatoring in the Blues Tent (still on the infield then), joining in tribal […]
[Watch] French Quarter Festival 2022 Recap
Blue skies, smiling faces, dancing feet and spirited music of many styles defined the return of the French Quarter Festival after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. More than […]
In Memoriam: John Swenson (1950-2022)
John Swenson, writer and contributing editor of OffBeat, a longtime friend of the staff and a New Orleans music lover, passed away on Sunday, March 27, after a long battle […]
Faubourg Brewery sponsors Daze Between New Orleans music festival between Jazz Fest weekends
The inaugural Daze Between New Orleans festival will take place at Faubourg Brewery on two days between Jazz Fest weekends. On Tuesday, May 3, and Wednesday, May 4, an outdoor […]
Best of the Beat: Lifetime Achievement in Music – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
In 2002, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band celebrated its 25th anniversary and several of its core members related the ensemble’s history and its remarkable rise to fame […]
REWIND: Jazz Fest Redux 2019
Opening Day Let’s hear it for Quint Davis and his merry band of festers. After enduring the chaos of the cancellation of headliners The Rolling Stones, the substitutes […]
REWIND: Jazz Fest Redux 2005
The 36th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was blessed with six days of unbelievably perfect weather, with only one day of rain—conveniently ceasing by noon. It was the […]
REWIND: Jazz Fest Redux 2004
Stormy Singing It was Sunday, April 25th, and just as Jazz Fest was getting underway, the heavens opened up. That might have brought more people than normally would […]
REWIND: Jazz Fest Redux 1993
Lloyd Price And on the second weekend, on the just and unjust alike: the rain. Where were you when the sky fell on Friday? I was standing […]
