The Wednesday at the Square concert series continued yesterday, April 13, with performances from trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins and opening band, roots rockers COOT. Included in Ruffins’ set were KR-staples “I Like Reefer…You Like Reefer…”, “Who Could Ask for Anything”, “More Today than Yesterday”, “Bye Bye Blackbird” and encore song “I Gotta Feeling” by [...]
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Taking the Treme Out of New Orleans
April 12, 2011 – 12:43 pm
Thanks to the success of HBO’s Treme, musicians featured in the show are booking a national tour. “A Night in Treme” headlines with Kermit Ruffins, Rebirth Brass Band, and Donald Harrison on nine dates this Summer, starting June 10 in San Francisco. Confirmed stops include Los Angeles June 11, Chicago June 12, and Washington D.C. [...]
Touched by Treme
April 1, 2011 – 12:14 am
“I now have all the Facebook friends I’ll ever need.” Tom McDermott appeared in episode three of the television show Treme, starting a rift between Lucia Micarelli’s violin-playing Annie and Michiel Huisman’s Sonny when he asked her to accompany him on a gig. The appearance gave him the sort of exposure only television can give, [...]
Kermit Ruffins: All Aboard the Mother-in-Law Lounge
February 1, 2011 – 12:03 am
Kermit Ruffins is set to take over the Mother-in Law-Lounge on Claiborne Avenue in the Treme, saving another endangered landmark on the New Orleans musical landscape. While the Treme neighborhood and the working musicians that call it home have received worldwide attention over the past year thanks to the eponymous HBO series, too many of [...]
Kermit Ruffins to Open Club in Mother-in-Law Building
January 7, 2011 – 5:14 pm
Since Antoinette K-Doe’s daughter Betty Fox announced the final closing of the Mother-in-Law Lounge last month, many have wondered what would become of the iconic building. That mystery has now been laid to rest, as trumpeter/singer Kermit Ruffins announced yesterday that he had negotiated a lease with the building’s owner and plans to open a [...]
YouTube du Jour: Kermit Ruffins
December 23, 2010 – 10:44 am
Tonight, “Home for the Holidays” returns to the House of Blues. This fundraiser for the Daniel Price Memorial Fund features the Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins, Amanda Shaw, Shamarr Allen, the Eric Lindell Trio, Stanton Moore, Thomas Johnson, Jonathan Batiste Band, Herlin Riley, and Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, with guests James Andrews and Rockin Dopsie, Jr. In the spirit of the [...]
Ruffins Celebrates Christmas and Happy Talk
December 17, 2010 – 9:38 am
This Saturday, Kermit Ruffins plays his annual Christmas concert at House of Blues including songs from last year’s Have a Crazy, Cool Christmas and this year’s critically acclaimed Happy Talk. Here’s the December 7 episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with Ruffins sitting in with the Roots for the duration of the show.
Trombone Shorty’s Red Hot
December 1, 2010 – 12:03 am
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews will curate an all-star New Orleans revue scheduled for December 3 and 4 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. The show’s producers asked Shorty to assemble a representative contingent of New Orleans musicians for the AIDS-benefit concert series, and he came up with a list of performers [...]
Kermit Ruffins, Happy Talk (Basin Street Records)
November 1, 2010 – 12:59 am
In 2007, Kermit Ruffins got married in Woldenberg Park during the French Quarter Festival. As his beloved bride Juicee mounted the stage, Kermit and the fellas pointed their horns in her direction and the audience roared. Just as things hit a crescendo, the Steamboat Natchez passed and blew its whistle. It was another epically sweet [...]
