If you thought you were getting a break from festival food and music post-Jazz Fest, think again. This Saturday, the University of New Orleans is inviting the public to Crawfish Mambo, a crawfish boil on the lake. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., 35 teams will be competing to prepare all-you-can-eat crawfish and win the [...]
If you have a song in your heart and a drink up your sleeve, OffBeat and Herbsaint are looking for you. We’re sponsoring the first annual Melodic Mixology competition—the search for the best musically inspired cocktail. New Orleans area bartenders and mixologists are invited to develop an original cocktail inspired by a New Orleans song [...]
Today, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., a new weekly concert series, “Jazz in the Park” has its second run in Armstrong Park. Glen David Andrews headlines tonight’s show with Michael Baptiste and DJ Quickie Mart opening, plus special performances by Craig School Young Audiences and the Organ Grinders. The free, weekly series started April 5 [...]
The Pine Leaf Boys‘ Wilson Savoy is taking on a new role—filmmaker—as he makes a documentary about Cajun music star Wayne Toups. The two play in the Band Courtbouillon with Steve Riley, and Savoy has started a Kickstarter project to help fund the documentary. What is your relationship to Wayne Toups? I’ve known about [...]
The RE:GENERATION music project examines the history of different music through the eyes of five contemporary electronic producer/DJs. For the project, Mark Ronson, DJ Premier, the Crystal Method, Pretty Lights and Skrillex each take a specific musical style, and one they’re not usually known for, and explore it by writing and recording a brand new [...]
When the Grammys are awarded on February 12, Lil Wayne will be among the most nominated artists, being up for five Grammys. New Orleans-born Oakland resident Ledisi was nominated in all the major R&B categories for her album Pieces of Me, and the Rebirth Brass Band will contend for its first Grammy. Rebirth is a [...]
“We do not own it, society does.” Leon Cahill, head of the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) at Tulane, is referring to its Carnival collection, which it finished digitizing in time for Mardi Gras 2012. Now, float and costume design sketches by legendary designers, including Jennie Wilde, B.A. Wikstrom and Charles Briton are online and viewable [...]
Here in New Orleans, Cosimo Matassa’s inclusion was the news in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s announcement of its inductees yesterday. The Hall’s announcement quoted OffBeat writer Jeff Hannusch, who wrote, “Virtually every R&B record made in New Orleans between the late 40s and early 70s was engineered by Cosimo Matassa, and recorded in [...]
New Orleans blues legend William “Billy” Diamond passed away on October 20 at the age of 95. Services and burial for Diamond will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at St Louis Cemetery Number One; relatives and friends are invited to attend. Gather at the front gates on 400 Basin Street for a procession to the [...]
