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Royal Southern Brotherhood up for a British Blues Award
Royal Southern Brotherhood, fresh off their recent Blues Music Award, are in contention for a British Blues Award in the “Overseas” category. “We are honored and appreciates the nomination,” the […]
Giveaway: Slightly Stoopid Prize Pack + Tickets to April 24 Show at the Joy
Slightly Stoopid is returning to New Orleans to headline a show at the Joy Theater on April 24, and we’ve got a lot to give away to get you ready […]
Zion Harmonizers Celebrate 75 Years At the Joy Theater
On Saturday, March 15, 2014, New Orleans’ own Zion Harmonizers will be celebrating their 75th Anniversary with a party at the Joy Theater from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Formed […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 35): Walter Wolfman Washington, Soul Shepherd
Long before his trademark howl echoed in the Crescent City’s streets, Walter “Wolfman” Washington was a hungry, young guitarist cutting his teeth on the Dew Drop Inn stage. In the […]
Soul Project: Music for Movers and Shakers (Frenchmen Street Records)
Buy on Amazon It’s good to hear a band whose sound hearkens to back in the day but also has a modern touch. Soul Project’s new record sounds like a […]
Monk Institute Leaving (and Not Leaving) New Orleans
After four years, nearly two dozen graduates, and an extensive community outreach program, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance is ending its collegiate program at Loyola University. Monk Institute […]
Preservation, Inc.
A film starts with a hipster walking into Preservation Hall. He wears horned-rim glasses, thin hair on top and has a postage stamp of a beard. His sweater is black […]
Hal Willner
“You pick your cast and you work with them.” One of the great ironies of the folk revival of the late 1950s is that one of its central texts emerged […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
