One of the many events surrounding the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the release each of the year of the official Jazz Fest poster and the accompanying Congo Square poster, both of which have become collectors items for Fest and art fans. This year’s Jazz Fest poster features Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, and [...]
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Jazz Fest and Congo Square 2012 Posters Revealed: Trombone Shorty and Shamarr Allen Featured
February 1, 2012 – 12:39 pm
New Carnival Music from Galactic
November 29, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Galactic has finished a new album, Carnivale Electricos which puts a new spin on the Carnival record by musically addressing not only Mardi Gras but Carnival in Brazil. This time around, the large stable of musical guests includes Louisiana artists Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Big Chief Juan Pardo, Corey Henry, John Michael Rouchell, Maggie Koerner, [...]
Nine Lives Performance at Tipitina’s French Quarter: Photos
October 28, 2011 – 1:07 am
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 [...]
YouTube du Jour: Shamarr Allen “Mr. Old Man” Video Premiere
February 3, 2011 – 12:15 am
Shamarr Allen is working on a new album, 504-799-8147, the follow-up to 2009’s Box Who In? The album title’s significance is that the number is Allen’s cell number. “I want my fans to keep in touch with me,” Allen says. “They can call or text about anything at anytime and I answer. They can find [...]
Various Artists, Dear New Orleans (Air Traffic Control Records)
October 1, 2010 – 12:55 am
A working streetcar, a Saints Super Bowl victory and five years later, it might be easy for the events of August 29, 2005 to become a more distant memory for some. But if Dear New Orleans, the new digital benefit compilation dedicated to the Big Easy from Air Traffic Control, is any proof, no one [...]
First of Free Shamarr Allen-Led Music Clinics for Youth Tonight
September 21, 2010 – 12:35 pm
This evening, the New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid and Pleasure club will be holding the first of their fall series of Music Clinics for Youth at Sound Café. Sponsored by Silence Is Violence, a New Orleans-based anti-violence campaign, the clinics are free and open to all New Orleans youth accompanied by an adult. The [...]
TED Shares with New Orleans
August 27, 2010 – 12:29 am
[UPDATED] As New Orleans approaches its five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, TEDxNOLA wants to help the city move onward. “TED is bringing people together to discuss how New Orleans has found ways to cope with their crises and grow from them,” said media coordinator David Baker, who is part of the conference committee. Rebuilding New [...]
Paul Sanchez on Shamarr Allen
August 1, 2010 – 12:52 am
I met Shamarr at an in-store in Louisiana Music Factory Jazz Fest 2006. I was still with the Mouth and he was still with Rebirth. They were playing after the Mouth set, and during our set I sang Randy Newman’s “Louisiana, 1927,” and Shamarr got up and joined me on that song. I said into [...]
Shamarr Allen and Paul Sanchez, Bridging the Gap (Threadhead Records)
August 1, 2010 – 12:44 am
Shamarr Allen is a born front man, the kind of artist who embraces a showy star turn. Throughout his career performing and recording with brass bands, jazz ensembles, and his recent funk-rock projects, listening to Allen perform has meant hearing his sensibilities and his powerful trumpet drive a band’s rhythms and shape its sound. On [...]
Shamarr Allen: None of the Above
August 1, 2010 – 12:14 am
1907 Jourdan Avenue is situated just past the east wall of the Industrial Canal. Shamarr Allen recalls growing up there, practicing his trumpet at home with encouragement from his father and Kermit Ruffins. Playing with his childhood friend Dinerral Shavers, buddies so close people thought they were brothers. But like so many other such New [...]
