Issue Articles — Features
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Germaine Bazzle
“Teaching was what I was supposed to do—the [music] gigs are what I could do,” says an emphatic Germaine Bazzle, the 2015 recipient of OffBeat’s Lifetime Achievement in Music Education […]
Celebrate Louisiana’s Loves: The nominees for Best of the Beat
In early December OffBeat solicited nominations from musicians and others in the music community. We gave these results to our writers and editors and, with input from both, determined the […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Roland and Mary Von Kurnatowski
For New Orleans music devotees, Tipitina’s has long served as an icon of the city’s music history and the local music scene’s communal spirit. But that’s not what compelled Roland […]
Heartbeat Award: Catherine Lasperches
When Catherine Lasperches walks into an examination room at the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic or meets a patient in the hall, she enthusiastically greets them using their first name. Since […]
A Disappearing Breed: Breton Sound’s Classic Pop-Rock
A few hours before I was set to interview Breton Sound frontman Jonathan Pretus, I happened to run into him on a Facebook thread. Nothing unusual there, except that it […]
Corks Out
Local couples make ballsy wine—in Lakeview Neil Gernon and his wife Monica Bourgeois, along with his sister Laura Gernon and his sister’s husband Grant Schexnider, make world-class wine—in Lakeview. […]
The Language of Music: Jonathan Freilich
“Stop talking about culture and experience it!” A prolific musician and composer—and founder of the Naked Orchestra and the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars—Jonathan Freilich is widely known for his […]
From Congo Square to Bamako
When Jeff Klein went to Africa for the first time in January this year, after playing African drums all over the United States for more than 20 years (Klein’s originally […]
Lawdy Miss Clawdy: Lloyd Price in New Orleans
Lloyd Price, the Kenner-born R&B star who recorded numerous pop and R&B hit singles including “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Stagger Lee” and “(You’ve Got) Personality,” has written an unusual autobiography titled […]
Cyril Neville’ s Christmas poem
The Night Before Funkmas It was the night before Funkmasand all through the city.The whole town was gettin’ ready To get down to the real nitty gritty.The posters and fliers […]
