Comedian Chris Champagne and entertainer Philip Melancon host “Ray Nagin: The Going-Away Party” on Sunday, May 26 at the Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave. It’s billed as a “long-deserved laugh at the legacy of Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s administration.” High time to poke fun at the high (and low) jinks and cronyism of [...]
Beginning Wednesday, the highly-anticipated foodie extravaganza, the New Orleans Wine and Food Experience (NOWFE) began its 21st anniversary of celebrating local wine, food and culinary achievement with wine dinners that paired local chefs and wines. The rest of the event, which takes place at venues all over New Orleans and in the New Orleans [...]
Son of a gun, a good time was had on Bayou St. John last weekend (May 17-19) as music filled the air, paddle boats bobbed along the banks, trapeze artists swung from the trees and burlesque dancers let it all hang out at the eighth annual Bayou Boogaloo. OffBeat photographer Kim Welsh had her camera [...]
Last Thursday (May 16) was a big day for Jazz in the Park as Big Al Carson and the Blues Masters and Big Chief Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians boogied as the sun set over the Treme sky at the weekly spring concert series. A Tibetan monk accompanying the Dalai Lama’s [...]
The sun was shining, the Fairgrounds were soggy, and the music flowed on the last day of Jazz Fest 2013, Sunday, May 5. Highlights included extraordinary performances from Hall and Oates, the Black Keys, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Irma Thomas, Del McCoury and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Taj Mahal, the Meter Men and many [...]
Droves of people piled into the soggy, muddy Fairgrounds yesterday (Saturday, May 4) welcomed by the sun for the first time during the second weekend of Jazz Fest. With arguably the festival’s largest crowd so far, Frank Ocean, Phoenix, the Little Willies, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Los Lobos, Terence Blanchard, Stanley Clarke and George [...]
Friday, May 3 was a record day in New Orleans as temperatures dropped to record lows. Following a week of rain, the whole of the Fairgrounds had been transformed into a giant mud pit. Thankfully, stellar Jazz Fest performances from Jimmy Cliff, Willie Nelson, Maroon 5, Nicholas Payton, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet [...]
The second weekend of Jazz Fest 2013 began just like the first ended… with rain — lots of rain. But the show was hardly a wash as Patti Smith, Dee-1, Kidd Jordan, Delfeayo Marsalis, Meschiya Lake, Aurora Nealand, Glen David Andrews, Geno Delafose, Rosie Ledet, Roy Ayers, Gerald French and more delivered memorable sets. Enjoy [...]
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, announced today that the foundation’s new education and community center will be named in honor of George and Joyce Wein. The George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center is located at 1225 N. Rampart Street – [...]
The producers of Jazz Fest are fond of noting that fans who come for the big names always wind up discovering some unique, mind-blowing act they’d never see elsewhere. Here’s your chance to prove them right: Just check the diversity on display at this year’s Fest and make a point of absorbing as many [...]
