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Photos: Money Wasters Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line 2013
Last Sunday afternoon, (May 26) the 39th annual Money Wasters Social Aid and Pleasure Club’s second line parades set off from Charbonnet-Labat Funeral Home, stopped in at Kermit’s Treme Speakeasy […]
Mayor Hosts Sandy Benefit Concert, Ticketmaster Carves Out Donations
Tonight, a five-star cast of New Orleans’ finest musicians will convene at a sold-out Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Hurricane Sandy NOLA Pay It Forward Benefit Concert. Proceeds from the […]
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Celebrates 10 year anniversary at Carnegie Hall
Nearly 75 years after Benny Goodman’s legendary Carnegie Hall concert brought jazz official respectability alongside classical music, Irvin Mayfield brought the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to the same stage to […]
French Quarter Fest 2011: A-Z Guide
Louisiana music comes to the Vieux Carre during the French Quarter Fest, April 7-10, this year adding music on Thursday. With so many musicians and 20 stages, it’s hard to […]
Alicia Keys and More Added to Essence Music Festival Lineup
The Essence Music Festival continued to beef up this year’s lineup of stars, adding singer/pianist Alicia Keys as a headliner at the Independence Day weekend festival. Keys released her fourth […]
Why Jazz Fest Matters
“Most New Orleans Music Has a Recognizable Family Resemblance”: A Conversation with Tom Piazza Writer and critic Tom Piazza talks about Voodoo, country music and timelessness and how they […]
Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z
When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]
Fest Focus: Phish
In October 1983, Phish played their first gig for a ROTC Halloween party at the University of Vermont. They were booed offstage after only a few songs. Since this inauspicious […]
