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Thursday April 11: French Quarter Festival 30th Anniversary Gala at Antoine’s Restaurant
The FQF’s 30th Anniversary Gala is the organization’s annual fundraiser and this year will feature live music by Jeremy Davenport, Harmonouche, the Roots of Music and special guests. There’ll be […]
Bayou Weekend Get-Away: T-Bois Blues Festival in LaRose, LA April 5 – 6
Though it’s nominally a blues festival, T-Bois offers a wide range of Louisiana music including swamp rock (Honey Island Swamp Band), alternative rock (Gravy Flavored Kisses), singer-songwriters (Mia Borders, Kristin […]
Help Bring Back the Legendary Jimmy’s Music Club at Benefit Mini-Fest April 4 – 6
An all-star New Orleans cast will lend its support to re-open Jimmy Anselmo’s venerable music club next weekend. Jimmy has spent the better part of the past year vying to […]
George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners with Mia Borders at Tipitina’s on Friday, March 29
A man always as busy as he is funky, George Porter Jr. will be playing in the coming months with the Funky Meters, the Meter Men, and Fleur Debris. […]
All-New Orleans Cast Hosts New Play, “Badu-Izms” This Weekend
More than just a tribute show, “Badu-iZms” is a musical revue built around the music and mystique of Erykah Badu. Playwright and local New Orleanian, Pamela Davis-Noland wrote the piece, […]
$5,000 Grant Competition for New Orleans Documentary Photographers Ends This Friday!
Time is running out for unheralded photographic geniuses to get in on the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography’s annual $5000 grant. Documentary photographers, both emerging and established, residing […]
Cowboy Mouth and Flow Tribe bring the noise to Inaugural Infield Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course this Saturday
A whole lot of music will be hitting the New Orleans Fairgrounds next month, but there will also be a big shot of it this weekend. In conjunction with the […]
Neil Barclay Named New Executive Director of the Contemporary Arts Center
Neil Barclay was announced this week as the replacement for Jay Weigel, who will leave as the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center’s (CAC) longest serving director. Formerly of Austin, TX […]
“Culture & Regulation” Public Talk at Old U.S. Mint April 4
The topic of “Culture & Regulation”— in other words, what happens when the issues of “cultural expression” and varying definitions of “quality of life” run up against each other — […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Schedule Cubes, New “Celebration of Native America” Village at Jazz Fest
The annually-anticipated Jazz & Heritage Festival “cubes” were unveiled with proper flourish at the New Orleans Fairgrounds this morning, in the area that Fest-goers will know as the site of […]
