Issue Articles — Features
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Steve Masakowski
Steve Masakowski never focused on making teaching his career. While attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music he earned a Professional Diploma rather than a degree in music education. When pianist/educator […]
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer): Clarence “Delco” Dalcour
Best of the Beat Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer) Clarence Dalcour, 71, is a soft-spoken man who as Big Chief Delco of the Creole Osceola displays old time […]
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Musician): Margie Perez
Margie Perez embodies what it means to be a working artist in New Orleans right now: she plays whenever possible, constantly expanding her reach with a variety of bands and […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Shirani Rea of Peaches Records
When Shirani Rea opened Peaches Records in 1975, she became an independent business owner with a humanist approach to her bottom line. The beloved record store, now located on Magazine […]
Christmas Gumbo: The ultimate New Orleans holiday playlist
New Orleans’ history of Christmas music actually begins fairly recently: For all the great records that came out of this city in the ’50s and ’60s, only a precious few […]
The Pogues plus Lost Bayou Ramblers equal Poguetry
When Spider Stacy and Cait O’Riordan from the Pogues meet the Lost Bayou Ramblers, they make Poguetry together. The Pogues, of course, are the Anglo-Irish folk-punk band from London that […]
Michael Cerveris and Loose Cattle celebrate “The Day it Snows on Christmas”
It’s a bright sunny afternoon in late October at Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, and with temps in the mid-70s, the line of folks waiting for sno-balls would normally stretch around the block. […]
Heartbreak & Cocaine: Andre Lovett and his band are not easily pinned down
Any musician who plays in crowded New Orleans bars gets used to people coming up to them between sets and saying how much they sound like their favorite artist. Just […]
Cuban Invasion: Roberto Carcassés & Cimafunk on tap in November
There is music everywhere in New Orleans just like here in Cuba,” said pianist and composer Roberto Carcassés by phone while sitting in a park in his hometown of Havana. […]
Yvette Landry discovers Warren Storm in a new book and CD
In southwest Louisiana, the singing, drumming godfather of swamp pop is a local celebrity. Warren Storm’s fans include Yvette Landry, the swamp pop and Cajun musician who’s written a new […]
