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Home Sweet Home
While lively crowds tend to be the rule at Tipitina’s, the one that gathered on May 27 was significant. A benefit concert titled “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home” boasted an impressive […]
2007 Jazz Fest from A-Z
Years ago, a radio announcer asked, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” then answered, “The Shadow knows.” Big deal. Evil’s easy. Does the Shadow know who’s […]
French Quarter Fest A-Z
The French Quarter Festival is free, with 15 stages dotted throughout the Quarter. That’s a lot of stages and a lot of musicians from here and around the world. As […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
Masters of Louisiana Music: Allen Toussaint
Learning at the hands of Dave Bartholomew, musician, songwriter, producer, arranger, A&R man, label head and recording studio founder Allen Toussaint has done more to put New Orleans music on […]
Critics’ Choice: Top 50 Louisiana CDs of 2003
Selected from nearly 300 Louisiana releases, our 2003 Critics’ Choice of the year’s finest musical offerings was a joint effort of OffBeat’s editors and writers, with all Louisiana-oriented recordings afforded […]
Greetings from the Ninth Ward: Wish You Were Here, Dawl!
GREETINGS FROM THE NINTH WARD Wish You Were Here, Dawl! “Dude, you are totally not from the Ninth Ward!” –Heather Sher, one of Darwin’s Angels, as heard on Quintron’s […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
Masters of Louisiana Music: Harold “Duke” Dejan
In 1966, when the NAACP and the Zulu Carnival Club condemned the New Orleans second line tradition as demeaning to the African-American race, bandleader Harold “Duke” Dejan bucked the tide […]
