Issue Articles — Features
Feufollet’s Crazy Fire Takes Flight
Feufollet: Sunday, May 3, Fais Do-Do Stage, 12:25p Every once in a while, a band comes along that you think might be really special, a band that makes you wonder […]
Preserving Jazz Fest Culture
Some New Orleanians are frustrated. The city is undeniably changing, and it is often changed by outside forces eliminating what makes our culture so special. The past few years have […]
Fest Focus: Trombonist Charlie Halloran Gets Around
Trombone player Charlie Halloran will appear at this year’s French Quarter Fest on nine separate occasions. Given that each set is slated to last approximately one hour, Halloran expects to […]
French Quarter Fest 2015 A to Z
French Quarter Fest 2015 will feature over 1,400 local artists on 23 stages spread throughout the Quarter. You are definitely going to need help to plan your attack. Luckily, we […]
Fest Focus: The Honorable South
Thursday, April 9, House of Blues, 4:30p Saturday, April 11, Tropical Isle Stage, 12:30p As the Honorable South works through a sound check prior to a recent performance on local […]
Fest Focus: Guitar Slim, Jr.
Saturday, April 11, WWL Stage, 2p Before making his French Quarter Fest debut this year, Jazz Fest veteran and New Orleans R&B/blues mainstay Guitar Slim, Jr. looks back on his […]
Fest Focus: Lagniappe Brass Band
Saturday, April 11, Brass Band Stage, 4p People in New Orleans love to dance,” says Lagniappe Brass Band drummer Joshua “Jams” Marotta. “They don’t discriminate on how you make them […]
Fest Focus: The Dog Hill Stompers
Friday, April 10, Chevron Stage, 2p Fourteen years after his Earthly departure, the legacy of Boozoo Chavis lives on in the zydeco kingdom. Practically every zydeco band has at least […]
The Sweetness of Alexandra Scott
It would be perfectly fine with Alexandra Scott if she never experiences another year like the one that preceded her last album, I Love You So Much Always—a year that […]
