I cannot believe the weather this week—in between Jazz Fest 2010 weekends. It has been so lovely—just more of those picture-perfect days in New Orleans. Am hoping and praying this continues through the upcoming weekend, since opening day of Jazz Fest was a real monsoonesque bummer. It’s a damned good thing I had my heavy-duty [...]
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Music Museum Planned For Canal Street
March 31, 2010 – 6:14 pm
Guess what? I just heard through the grapevine that the City of New Orleans is going to completely fund the building of a New Orleans Music Museum in the old Loew’s State Theater building on Canal Street! April Fool. I wish. There’s a public meeting Thursday April 1, at 4:30 p.m. at Ashé Cultural Center [...]
Wha?
February 1, 2010 – 5:43 pm
OK, I’ve been way out of the loop. My computer’s hard drive crashed and burned, along with all my information (back up in the “cloud”, but buying another computer and trying to restore everything has been all-consuming). I haven’t blogged for a long time, not even since the big game. I am thrilled we are [...]
Please, No More Lip Service
January 13, 2010 – 5:07 pm
The Mayoral Candidates’ Forum on Music was interesting, but not controversial enough (you know I like to stir things up). Surprisingly, not one of the candidates objected to putting music industry development into their administration. It really does sound like a good idea. But we had a mayor who promised us that eight years ago, [...]
Mayoral Candidates Agree on Music
January 12, 2010 – 10:27 am
The details of their support may be different, but five of the mayoral candidates agreed on the importance of music to New Orleans at the Music Swings Votes forum at Loyola’s Roussel Hall Monday night. “Music is to New Orleans what oil is to Houston,” John Georges said. Georges, Mitch Landrieu, Rob Couhig, Nadine Ramsey [...]
(Still) Stirring Up The Pot
December 23, 2009 – 4:02 pm
OffBeat has been pushing for recognition for the music, musicians, arts and cultural businesses in New Orleans for a long time. Along with MusicSwingsVotes.org, we’re sponsoring the first of a series of public forums for the New Orleans mayoral candidates at 6:30 p.m. at Loyola University’s Roussel Hall on Monday, January 11, 2010. All are [...]
Music’s Political Future?
December 9, 2009 – 4:17 pm
As the year comes to a close, the candidates for the new mayor of New Orleans are declaring their intentions as I write this. In order to run, you have to qualify for the race, and announce your intentions to run. As of this morning, there were eight announced candidates, the newest of which is [...]
