Issue Articles — Mojo Mouth
Hot Fun at SummerFest
They said it was impossible. No one would come. A festival in the heat of a New Orleans August? No way! But Satchmo SummerFest is working, and getting bigger and […]
The Marshall Plan
The Jazz & Heritage Foundation has hired Don Marshall, whose latest job as Director/Professor of the Graduate Program in Arts Administration and previous experience as director of the Contemporary Arts […]
What’s The Jazz Fest Gonna Do?
Got a call from a local musician, who was plenty, plenty steamed right after the Festival, claiming that local musicians weren’t being paid for the rain day, and artists from […]
Jazz Fest is the Best
Funky. If you wanted to characterize what makes New Orleans music unique in the world, it’s all that. Funky and soulful and real. We pride ourselves on the authenticity of […]
Festing in The Quarter
I love French Quarter Festival. The weather is great, I get to experience the French Quarter in all its glory—it’s pretty spiffed-up for this event, with all the Mardi Gras […]
Legitimacy
I have been involved in music in New Orleans for the majority of my business career. OffBeat is the longest job I’ve ever had (17 years). Before that I worked […]
The Beat Generation
Here they are: the winners of the ninth annual OffBeat Best Of The Beat Music Awards. I sort of hesitate to call them “winners” because that implies that the other […]
Burned Out and Upbeat
Once you reach my ripe old age, sometimes you get tired and think, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just win the lottery and get rid of all this […]
Moving and Changing
Some really exciting news was emailed to us last week: Preservation Hall, the legendary traditional jazz venue in the French “Quarters” is launching a new label in late January 2004, […]
We’re Here…Get Used to It
In just a few weeks from the time I write this, and a few days after this issue hits the street, Louisianians will have the opportunity to make an historic […]
