The crowd assembled at the All Ways lounge April 17 to hear Dayna Kurtz included numerous local musicians and journalists. They were on hand for the release party of Rise and Fall, the singer/songwriter’s first album since she moved to New Orleans three years ago. They listened attentively as she played the songs from the record, singing along to “Raise the Last Glass” and Bobby Charles’ “You’ll Always Live Inside of Me.” Even the band members—her longtime guitarist Robert Mache, bassi...