Over the course of the year, musician Paul Sanchez and screenwriter Colman deKay’s opera and album Nine Lives has blossomed into one of the most celebrated New Orleans releases of 2011. On stage, the musical adaption of Dan Brown’s 2009 book of the same title takes the form of a pop opera. Backed by a [...]
Tag Archives: Debbie Davis
Pfister Sisters: French Quarter Fest Focus
April 1, 2011 – 12:18 am
Jazz harmonizers the Pfister Sisters have existed long enough to be considered a tradition, singing with everyone from the Neville Brothers to Jimmy Buffett to Linda Ronstadt. They sang on the wing of a plane with their hero Maxene Andrews of the swinging Andrews Sisters, and more recently were featured on the HBO series Treme, [...]
Matt Perrine and Debbie Davis: The Couple That Plays Together…
February 1, 2011 – 12:11 am
Without music, how many would never have fallen in love? Without love, how many songs would have never been written? And yet two musicians in an intimate relationship sounds like romantic chaos. Not so for respected local low-end specialist (sousaphone/bass) Matt Perrine and wife Debbie Davis, best known for her interpretations of songs by the [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Debbie Davis
February 1, 2010 – 1:00 am
“I don’t think I ever did learn to cook, honestly. I just made up a bunch of stuff as I went along. It’s something I started doing out of necessity. Either because I was trying to impress somebody, or because I created small people who were hungry and I was obligated to feed them. I [...]
Additional Photos from OffBeat’s February 2010 Issue
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Catch the shots that didn’t make it into our February 2010 issue. Includes photos taken for the stories “Framed”, about Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s show at NOMA; “A Good Fit”, the Helen Gillet cover story; and this month’s The Gravy, “In the Kitchen with Debbie Davis”. All photos taken by Elsa Hahne.
Various Artists, A Very Threadhead Holiday (Threadhead)
December 16, 2009 – 11:26 am
The artists that cut or are cutting albums for Threadhead Records came together to record A Very Threadhead Holiday, a charming, often irreverent Christmas album. The album succeeds in being seasonal (if not always holly and jolly), and it represents the musical personalities of those involved. Craig Klein’s “Christmas on My Mind” is a good-natured [...]
Various Artists, A Family Christmas (Putumayo)
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Putumayo’s most recent Christmas collection this year is supposedly fun for the whole family. Evidently, the whole family loves acoustic, stringed instruments—guitars, mandolins, ukuleles, and the like. As such, This is often a low-wattage, chilled-out Christmas. There’s some great stuff on it including Martin Sexton’s “Holly Jolly Christmas” and Sam Bush’s “Sleigh Ride, but the [...]
What Will Santa Say?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The adults are sitting around a table on the back porch, some with beer, some with coffee. They’re swapping wisecracks and stories while the kids are upstairs. Coats are tossed in a corner, and the Christmas lights are strung with semi-deliberation in one of the rooms of the house. It could be Christmas, but it [...]
A Heavy Load
June 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY—The small stage of the Louisiana Music Factory is packed to the edge with musicians. Matt Perrine leads an aggregation of musicians from almost every walk of New Orleans’ musical life to promote the release of his first record, Sunflower City. He hoists his sousaphone on to his shoulder with surprising grace considering [...]
