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You Got to be Somebody: The Dave Bartholomew Culture Experience – Celebrating a New Orleans Music Master
The Dave Bartholomew Culture Experience – Celebrating a New Orleans music master
Vintage Vinyl Treasures (Episode 22)
Trains hold a special, nostalgic place in the lives of many and so it stands to reason, to me anyway, that there is nothing better than a good train song. From Elvis singing Junior Parker’s classic “Mystery Train” with its sixteen coaches long to the Clash’s lovelorn “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)” and a job that “don’t pay,” I am reminded of standing on a depot platform waiting with family for a loved one to arrive. Given everything going on in the world today, it is nice when music allows us to close our eyes and step back in our minds if just for the length of a tune. If all goes according to plan pursuant to my current vintage vinyl collection, this will be the first of several train-related installments.
For the Love of Charmaine: Davell Crawford Celebrates Charmaine Neville
Davell Crawford and Charmaine Neville share a story of love and support that goes back decades. The pianist and vocalist a child prodigy whose talents, vulnerability and sensitive nature awoke the instinctive nurturing side of Neville, who, almost 20 years his senior, was an established vocalist. As we learn, their bonding seems almost immediate.
Made in Heaven: Opera star Andre Courville joins Sweet Cecilia in a Christmas concert
Mark your calendars for Thursday evening, December 1, 2022. That’s when a glorious harmonic convergence will occur when disparate musical spheres, internationally known opera singer André Courville and Grammy-nominated folk trio Sweet Cecilia, align for a cool Yule Christmas Concert.
Christmas This Year: A new holiday song by David Heatley with Michael Cerveris
Christmas This Year: A new holiday song by David Heatley with Michael Cerveris
Troy Sawyer says Girls Can Play Trumpets, Too
Trumpeter Troy Sawyer’s program teaches trumpet to girls ages eight to nineteen.
As important as trumpet is in New Orleans, young women and girls haven’t played the instrument in significant numbers in the home of jazz. Troy Sawyer, a trumpeter, band leader and music educator, wants to change that.
Vintage vinyl treasures (Episode 21)
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring. For many artists back in the day, their sophomore albums represented a make-or-break effort with their respective record labels if their debut releases did not sell as well as anticipated.
Rhythm Is The First Component: New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibit Drumsville modulates to book form
In 2018, Robert H. Cataliotti, an author and educator from Maryland, co-curated the Drumsville! exhibit with Jazz Museum music curator David Kunian. Cataliotti has now written Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat, an extensively researched and illustrated 228-page book published by LSU Press.
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 20)
Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring. This month’s installment features five women of my vintage vinyl collection that never fail to lift my spirits and ultimately bring me back home. That is the mark of a great album.
Unlimited Potential: Chapel Hart wins the hearts of country music fans
Rising to the America’s Got Talent finals this summer, the New Orleans-based Chapel Hart won millions of new fans. The country music trio featuring sisters Danica and Devynn Hart and […]
