Last night, B.B. King played the Mahalia Jackson Theater, where talked and sang as much as he played. Photographer Erika Goldring was there, and here’s the Shot of the Night.
Last night, Bright Eyes returned to New Orleans to play the House of Blues. Photographer Erika Goldring was there and came back with the visual evidence.
Blues man Gary Clark, Jr. had three songs on the soundtrack for the movie Redemption Road (which recently opened in New Orleans). Last night, Clark played the House of Blues. Photographer Erika Goldring came back with the evidence.
Last night, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings played a sold-out show at Tipitina’s. Here’s the photographic evidence.
Photographer Erika Goldring shot folk cellist Ben Sollee last night at the House of Blues’ Parish. Here are a couple of the highlights:
[Updated] Tim McGraw topped a bill that included Sugarland, Trace Adkins and Luke Bryan on the first day of Bayou Country Superfest in Baton Rouge Saturday night. Updated 10:11 a.m. The Sugarland photo was added.
Lady Gaga plays the New Orleans Arena Saturday night. Here are two shots of Gaga by photographer Erika Goldring, one when she last performed here in 2009 and one from last year when she crowd-surfed suring a Semi-Precious Weapons show.
Last night, Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra performed “Shakespeare in Love” at the Contemporary Arts Center. The show revisited Duke Ellington’s Shakespeare-inspired Such Sweet Thunder suite with Harry Shearer reciting Shakespeare’s sonnets. Clarke Peters (who plays Albert Lambreaux on Treme) made an unscheduled appearance to recite from Othello from his cell phone.
We’re saddened to hear of the passing of country great Charlie Louvin, who died of pancreatic cancer this morning. About an hour ago, photographer Erika Goldring sent us this photo of Louvin with Emmylou Harris. Goldring wrote: Charlie Louvin lost his battle with pancreatic cancer this morning. The last time I saw Charlie, he wasn’t [...]
Photographer: Erika Goldring Date: April 5, 2009 Monk Boudreaux is Big Chief of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians. I’ve walked from his house to Second and Dryades on Mardi Gras with him and his family the last five years. This day in 2009 was the first time for me to approach Sportman’s Corner with [...]
