The 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival continued Saturday, which was dominated by the twin forces of Cee Lo Green and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Included in the photos below are Roddie Romero & The Hub City All Stars, Jeremy Lyons & Members of Morphine, Cheikh Lo of Senegal, Lionel Ferbos, Storyville Stompers [...]
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Jazz Fest, April 27: Photos from First Friday
April 30, 2012 – 8:40 pm
The first day of the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival started Jazz Fest off on a good foot, with plenty of good local and touring artists performing. Included in the photos below are the Electrifying Crown Seekers, Henry Gray & the Cats, the New Orleans Suspects, Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys, Young [...]
OffBeat Staff Picks at Jazz Fest
April 27, 2012 – 1:33 am
Here are our picks for what not to miss at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival all week. For more picks, see what local musicians (plus Jazz Fest producer Quint Davis and Treme producer Eric Overmyer) chose as their “must-see three” picks of the festival. Friday, April 27 Saturday, April 28 Sunday, April 29 [...]
OffBeat’s John Swenson Wins Best Book in JazzTimes Critics Poll
March 6, 2012 – 3:40 pm
JazzTimes magazine released the results of their 2011 Critics Poll yesterday, with OffBeat Consulting Editor John Swenson winning the Best Book award for New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans. The book focuses on the important roles musicians played in the city’s post-Katrina recovery. JazzTimes‘ Critics Poll is decided by the magazine’s [...]
Mayor Mitch Landrieu
June 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
During his tenure as the state’s Lieutenant Governor, Mitch Landrieu made “cultural economy” his calling card. He worked to show how cultural products aren’t simply valuable in an aesthetic, intellectual or social way, but that they are good business. He has maintained this interest as mayor, and the recent 2010 Cultural Economy Report shows that [...]
Jazz Fest 2011: Last Call
June 1, 2011 – 12:14 am
Jazz Fest is over, and people in the Jazz Tent when Christian Scott proposed to his now-fiancée will remember that. I’ll remember wondering if the Arcade Fire will ever seem this enthusiastic again (a fear alleviated when a friend reminded me that they were this enthusiastic when they toured behind Funeral in 2005). Everybody’s got [...]
YouTube du Jour: Jazz Fest 1982
May 27, 2011 – 12:12 pm
The June issue of OffBeat is out all over town now, and one of the highlights is our annual recap of Jazz Fest. In this video you can get a look back at another Jazz Fest, 29 years ago in 1982. The video, shot by Alan Lomax and his crew during their stay in New [...]
Jazz Fest Weekend Two Photos
May 9, 2011 – 4:40 pm
With the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival behind us now, you bask in its glory with these photos from each day of the second weekend of Jazz Fest (you can also see photos from the first weekend). There are Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs around the grounds. On stage, there [...]
Jazz Fest Second Sunday: Photo Slideshow
May 9, 2011 – 4:31 pm
The 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival concluded Sunday, May 8 at the Fair Grounds. Sets featured below include Mem Shannon, Anders Osborne, Playing for Change, Cowboy Mouth, Henry Butler, Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Sonny Rollins, and the Neville Brothers. All photos were taken by Kim [...]
Jazz Fest Second Saturday: Photo Slideshow
May 9, 2011 – 4:29 pm
The second weekend of the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival had likely its biggest day Saturday, May 7 at the Fair Grounds. Sets featured below include Shamarr Allen; Sammy Rimington; the Voice of the Wetlands All Stars with Waylon Thibodeaux, George Porter, Jr., Anders Osborne, Johnny Sansone, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and Tab [...]
