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Salt & Pepa…Houston’s 3G’s…Silver Lining’s “Backstage Pass”
New Orleans is quickly becoming the premiere music mecca of the south with acts like Salt & Pepa hitting New Orleans’ House of Blues on their 40-city Greatest Hits tour. […]
Jazz Fest, from “A” to “Z”
A Acoustic Swiftness, SAT 4/24, LAGN, 3:10, largely acoustic guitar group that plays snazzy Latino riffs with style. Adelia, Adelia The Storyteller, SAT 4/24, KIDS, 1:30, Engaging storytelling from […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 8
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
Chris Ardoin: A Zydeco Family Affair
It’s long way from the gumbo’d vistas of Southwest Louisiana to the chowder’d climes of Rhode Island. But if the subject is Mardi Gras and the entertainment is Chris Ardoin […]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Tommy Ridgley
For 50 years, Tommy Ridgley has been one of the great and enduring rhythm and blues artists in New Orleans. A regal, confident and engaging performer, he has never had […]
Get Your Essential Louisiana Music Here… New Direction at Tip’s… Borders and Wherehouse Walk Into the Crescent City… offBeat Events
This is so cool… this month we’re previewing a feature that anyone who’s interested in Louisiana music will appreciate (and I’m presuming if you’re reading this, you’re one of that […]
Fest Focus: Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
Like the Caribbean Négritude poets Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor, Ziggy Marley and his siblings see their music as a vehicle for social protest and asserting the value and dignity […]
The Life of Jerry Jumonville & Saying Goodbye to Red Tyler
Like many great New Orleans rhythm and blues saxophone players, Jerry Jumonville possesses a strong affection for modern jazz. “Sometimes it seems like there are two musicians trapped inside me,” […]
Willie West Pounds the Blacktop
Although Willie West is a contemporary of Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, Johnny Adams, King Floyd, Chris Kenner, Jessie Hill and Benny Spellman, his career has been overlooked partially because his […]
A Brief History of New Orleans Rock
Between the Nevilles and the Toussaints and the Thomases and the second-liners and the Indians and brass bands and jazz, sometimes people overlook the fact that New Orleans has always […]
