The staff is just now coming down from the high we all get at the Best of The Beat Awards. All of us work like dogs preparing for the Business Awards and the Party/Music Awards. Really, we do. So it’s totally gratifying to know that we’ve accomplished what we set out to do—honor the musicians [...]
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Best of the Beat 2011 Music Awards Show: Photos
January 30, 2012 – 4:32 pm
Friday night at Generations Hall, we presented the winners of the 2011 Best of the Beat Awards, as voted on by our highest-ever number of Best of the Beat poll respondents. Lifetime Achievement in Music Award recipient George Porter, Jr. and his Runnin’ Pardners, GIVERS, Big Freedia, Lost Bayou Ramblers, the Soul Rebels, Glen David [...]
Best of the Beat 2011 Music Awards: The Winners
January 28, 2012 – 1:40 am
Kermit Ruffins and GIVERS. Only those two acts stood between Trombone Shorty and every award he competed for. This year in the Best of the Beat, OffBeat readers voted him Artist of the Year, R&B/Funk Artist of the Year, Trombone Player of the Year, and his For True was named Album of the Year and [...]
Glen David Andrews on Fox 8 News at Noon: Video
January 27, 2012 – 3:49 pm
There’s been a lot of Best of the Beat action in the Fox 8 TV studios today. Lifetime Achievement in Music Award honoree George Porter, Jr. (performing at 10:30 p.m. tonight) went on Fox 8 Morning News with OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey, followed by the Soul Rebels (performing at 7:15 tonight), who played their cover [...]
The Soul Rebels on Fox 8 Morning News: Video
January 27, 2012 – 3:32 pm
The Soul Rebels, who perform at the Best of the Beat tonight in the Back/Awards Room at 7:15, also went on Fox 8 Morning News this morning, following George Porter, Jr. and OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey. They talked about opening for Metallica in San Francisco, their CD release party for Unlock Your Mind at Tipitina’s [...]
George Porter, Jr. and Jan Ramsey on Fox 8 Morning News: Video
January 27, 2012 – 2:58 pm
Today, Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Award recipient George Porter, Jr. went on Fox 8 Morning News with OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey to talk about Porter’s legacy in New Orleans music and the Best of the Beat Awards. Porter performs with a special Runnin’ Pardners lineup and some very special guests at [...]
YouTube du Jour: The Soul Rebels
January 27, 2012 – 9:40 am
Yesterday on WWOZ, OffBeat‘s Lifetime Achievement in Music Business honoree Scott Billington recommended that people see
The Best of the Beat Schedule
January 26, 2012 – 6:02 pm
Friday, the Best of the Beat returns to Generations Hall. Here’s the schedule: Front Room: 6 p.m. – Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses 7. p.m. – Glen David Andrews 9:45 p.m. – Lost Bayou Ramblers 10:45 p.m. – Big Freedia Back/Awards Room: 7:15 p.m. – the Soul Rebels 8 p.m. – the Awards Ceremony [...]
Best of the Beat Business Awards: Photos
January 26, 2012 – 4:43 pm
Wednesday night, OffBeat celebrated the best of New Orleans and Louisiana’s music business community with the Best of the Beat Music Business Awards at the newly-opened Joy Theater. Irvin Mayfield’s Mayfield Productions was awarded Music Business of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to George Porter, Jr. in music and Scott Billington in [...]
