Issue Articles
Festivals Acadiens Preview
The premiere Cajun music event takes over Lafayette Sept. 16-17 Sometimes the dance floor is consumed in a rolling dustcloud, other times two-steppers are ankle-deep in thick black mud. […]
Zydeco Fest Preview
It was three months before Labor Day in the 1982, and not a few people around Plaisance had decided that Wilbert Guillory and the folks at the Southern Development Foundation […]
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys: Creating Within The Tradition
BANNED FROM COMPETITION He had sung French songs at three, and played his first accordion riff at seven. Everything was peachy for the child prodigy until he won a […]
City Trumpets New Louis Armstrong Stamp; Essence Fest in Review
The trumpeting to herald the Louis Armstrong stamp (available on September 1) and celebrate this jazz centennial era will kick off at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe on Monday, Aug. […]
It’s Drama Time for Black Menace; Lil’ Prede Boy Hopes to Go from Rags to Riches
Big Boy Records, the record company that brought us Gslimm, Mystikal, and Partners-N-Crime will drop another big one this month with the release of the long awaited album from Black […]