The Revelers, At the End of the River – Au bout de la riviére (Independent)

Save yourself some confusion. Don’t think of the Revelers as staunch proponents of any particular genre but rather a synthesis of South Louisiana styles that is uniquely its own. On […]

If It Makes You Happy: The Revelers are never going to be a pop band

THE REVELERS: SUNDAY, APRIL 30—FAIS DO-DO STAGE, 2:50 P.M.   Legend has it that the Revelers began when the ghost of C.C. Adcock appeared to drummer Glenn Fields in the […]

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The Revelers, “Play the Swamp Pop Classics, Volume 2” (Independent)

The Revelers have it figured out: Drop vinyl-only, four-song EPs (Volume 2 includes a complimentary CD containing all eight tracks from both volumes) in between full-length releases to stimulate and […]

The Revelers, Get Ready (Independent)

The Revelers’ second full-length effort and first all original affair should dispel any remaining association with its previous incarnation the Red Stick Ramblers. With its swamp pop focus and Cajun-zydeco […]

The Revelers, The Revelers Play the Swamp Pop Classics Vol. I (Independent)

On this four-track, vinyl-only EP, the Revelers maneuver through a diverse set of arrangements with an atypical swamp-pop arsenal that includes accordion and fiddle. A rollicking rendition of “Let the […]

The Revelers, The Revelers (Independent)

Whaddya do when your bread-and-butter band slows down due to a crazy little thing called life? Form another one. That’s what most of the Red Stick Ramblers did by forming […]

The Dirty Rain Revelers, Live From the Porch (Independent)

When I described one of last month’s reviews as being one of the first pandemic-inspired records that had crossed my desk, I hadn’t heard the Dirty Rain Revelers latest, Live […]

Beat Cafe: David Kunian of New Orleans Jazz Museum and Matthew and Melissa DeOrazio of The Dirty Rain Revelers

MAY 27, 2022 | David Johnson, digital media editor of OffBeat, interviewed David Kunian, curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Matthew and Michelle DeOrazio of The Dirty Rain […]

The Dirty Rain Revelers, Spark (Independent)

Gently floating, half-asleep, somewhere between Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See, the Cowboy Junkies’ The Trinity Session, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand is this album, […]

Jazz Fest A to Z

This guide should help in choosing from the panoply of cultures, rhythms and sounds available at Jazz Fest to ensure your experience hits all the right notes. It’s arranged alphabetically by band name so you can search when your favorite act is playing by stage and time, with handy reference bio information. It’s easy to use on any mobile device to look up info by band, day, time or stage. Just go to our responsive site OffBeat.com.

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