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Anime Euphonium
One of the things I so love about this job is that I not only get to meet so many great people, I learn something every day. First those great […]
A Tale of Maple Syrup
Let me tell you why I have such a great job. Today was kind of a rough morning for me. It was the day I had to travel to my […]
Music as Community
Today our first Jazz Fest visitors wandered into the office, and if this year is like any other, this is the tip of the iceberg. For the next couple of […]
The Importance of Rampart
There are many “cultural products” districts in New Orleans, and several unofficial music districts throughout the city, the most famous ones are Frenchmen Street and Bourbon Street. St. Claude is […]
Long Live WWOZ
After OffBeat published a letter by a recently-departed WWOZ staff member, the powers-that-be who own and oversee the station—the board of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation—finally took a […]
Yeah, you right.
All of sudden, and all at once, some massive changes are taking place in New Orleans’ music scene. Why this confluence of changes are happening now is a mystery, but here’s […]
WWOZ, Where Does It End?
OffBeat’s short post on the departure of Dwayne Breashears (long-time WWOZ Programming Director) as of April 1 created a storm of controversy in the media. The New Orleans Advocate picked […]
Fixing Frenchmen Street
Up until maybe three or four years ago, Frenchmen Street was the place where “the locals went to hear great music.” Back then the ratios of locals to tourists was […]
Music’s El Sistema, New Orleans-Style
The historic nature of New Orleans music needs representation so that visitors as well as locals can understand, appreciate and hopefully can lead to more veneration of our music (that’s […]
Is Jazz The Brand
As readers of OffBeat, OffBeat.com and the Weekly Beat know, New Orleans is a musical city. But—let’s say the CVB was going to use music to “brand” the city, what […]
