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Telling Tales
Tales of the Cocktail celebrates cocktail culture in America July 8-12 at the Hotel Monteleone and other French Quarter venues. Chefs, mixologists and cocktail experts will be on hand for […]
Summer on the Point
Wednesdays on the Point, a new eight-week music series showcasing Louisiana talent such as Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience, started June 24 at Algiers Point, and on July 1 […]
Less Is More
In an indie rock scene featuring bands with as many as nine members, local psychedelic noise-rock duo Caddywhompus realizes that a little minimalism can go a long way. The duo, […]
Soul Alive
Kate Benson is resolute when she claims, “New Orleans R&B is not dead!” As program director for the Sweet Home New Orleans and Renew Our Music Fund, she is part […]
Drifting into Mainstream
What began as a backyard band practice and a couple YouTube videos has blossomed into a dream come true for members of the High Ground Drifters after their breakthrough performance […]
Making Choices
Terence Blanchard will premiere his new album, Choices, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art July 31. The album was recorded this spring in the Ogden’s Taylor Library and includes […]
“Ah-Ha” Moments
Under the shady oak in a courtyard at Isidore Newman School, young musicians from all over the city are playing old jazz favorites, composing new songs, discovering their musical personality, […]
The Once and Future Studio
This Jazz Fest, the Charles J. Colton Middle School’s auditorium was host to something far different than the school plays and third period assemblies it held in the past. Bands […]
The Jazz Class Plays An Encore for New Orleans
The seven members of the first class to graduate from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz since its relocation to Loyola University’s Uptown campus in 2007 convened in the Superdome […]
I Love a Parade
It’s been almost four years since the cynical watchdogs known as the Nolafugees started lampooning everything governmentally sketchy or socially condemnable in post-Katrina New Orleans, and the hits keep coming. […]
