Issue Articles — French Quarter Fest Focus
Fest Focus: Carl LeBlanc
Saturday, April 13, 1:30p Dow Chemical Stage From Sun Ra’s cosmic explorations to Preservation Hall’s traditional New Orleans jazz, Carl LeBlanc travels the sonic universe. He’s a jazz guitarist, a […]
Fest Focus: Mainline
Sunday, April 14, 12:30p GE Digital Big River Stage “We started the band around 2010. We were doing a lot of brass band music, but we wanted to go […]
Fest Focus: Them Ol’ Ghosts
SATURDAY, April 13, 8p House of Blues Voodoo Garden Stage Them Ol’ Ghosts are a four-piece rock band with roots buried deep in Southern soul. Their 2017 debut, Renegade, […]
Fest Focus: Tommy Sancton’s New Orleans Legacy Band
Saturday, April 13, 12p Dow Chemical Stage Tommy Sancton makes his annual pilgrimage to his native New Orleans. Most of the year, the traditional jazz clarinetist, journalist and bestselling […]
Fest Focus: Big 6 Brass Band
Sunday, April 14, 5:45p Louisiana Fish Fry Stage Formed in 2017, the Big 6 Brass Band is a quickly rising star in the already brilliant brass-band space of the […]
Fest Focus: James Rivers Movement
Sunday, April 14, 5p The Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel This year is the fiftieth anniversary of James Rivers’ career as a crowd-pleasing front man. A remarkably […]
Asylum Chorus
ASYLUM CHORUS, 4/10, BMI, 3:45 PM “We decided to go bust and do our regular set anyway,” Asylum Chorus founder and director Lucas Davenport recalls of the ensemble’s 2015 […]
French Quarter Fest Focus: Sarah Quintana
SARAH QUINTANA AND THE MISS RIVER BAND, 4/8, WWL, 11 AM “We worked hard to find that sound,” Sarah Quintana says of the hydro-sonicscape she explores with her Miss […]
