Tonight, acoustic blues artist Colin Lake plays the Ogden Museum’s “Ogden After Hours” series. Here’s footage of him as part of coverage of the Telluride Blues Festival in 2007, where he won the acoustic blues competition for has facility on the lap slide guitar.
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YouTube du Jour: Jake Smith
June 3, 2010 – 10:37 am
Tonight, acoustic rocker Jake Smith performs at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s “Ogden After Hours” series. OffBeat editor Alex Rawls will do the interview. Here’s “Can’t Save Your Soul” with live footage from The Varsity in Baton Rouge.
YouTube du Jour: Susan Cowsill
May 6, 2010 – 11:39 am
Tonight, Susan Cowsill will play the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s “Ogden After Hours,” which will include an interview with OffBeat editor Alex Rawls. Here’s an early version of “Dragon Flys,” the opening track from her new Lighthouse album.
YouTube du Jour: “Ya Heard Me?”
April 20, 2010 – 10:57 am
On Thursday, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art opens “Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures.” The multimedia show by Alison Fensterstock and Aubrey Edwards (whose photos were in our March story on bounce) looks at New Orleans’ bounce music culture, and the show opens with a performance by DJ [...]
Les Blank’s Films at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art
March 19, 2010 – 8:22 am
American documentary filmmaker and our March issue Backtalk subject, Les Blank, returns to New Orleans this weekend to showcase some of his films at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Blank, a Tulane alumnus, was authored more than 40 films in his career, many of which focus on subjects from the South. The Ogden has [...]
YouTube du Jour: Jon Dee Graham
March 4, 2010 – 9:50 am
Austin’s Jon Dee Graham plays the Ogden Museum of Southern Art tonight at 6 p.m. Here’s an introduction to Graham from the 2008 documentary Jon Dee Graham: Swept Away. OffBeat editor Alex Rawls will interview Graham as part of the show.
Changes at the Ogden Museum
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art has been adjusting to several significant changes since the start of the year. Following the retirement of Museum Director of 10 years J. Richard Gruber in December, two staffers have begun to share co-directing duties at the Ogden. While splitting museum-directing responsibilities may seem unusual, institutions in New York [...]
Booker T., Truckers at the Ogden Online Now
February 17, 2010 – 3:04 pm
Yesterday, the television show The Artists Den celebrated Fat Tuesday by posting excerpts of the episode filmed in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Taylor Library last year during Jazz Fest. The show features Booker T., Bettye LaVette and the Drive-By Truckers, who are joined during “Three Dimes Down” by Ben Ellman and Trombone Shorty.
Hampton Flying South
April 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Rightly or wrongly, horn players loom over the history of jazz, yet anyone who knows jazz knows Lionel Hampton. As a band leader, educator, political activist, his influence touched all spheres of life. And now, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of his birth, New Orleans is there to celebrate. On April 19, the [...]
