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Bandcamp Juneteenth Fundraiser: Local Black Artists You Can Support Now
For the second year straight, Bandcamp will donate 100 percent of its share of all sales made on the online music marketplace to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on June […]
North Louisiana’s Easter Rock tradition honored by National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts has honored the rich, artistic heritage of America through the NEA National Heritage Fellowships since 1982. The nation’s highest honor in the folk and […]
Jazz & Heritage Foundation offers Community Partnership Grants
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation—the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest—is now accepting applications in five categories of the Community Partnership Grants program for the 2021-2022 grant cycle. Since […]
Sean Ardoin headlines NOLA Zydeco Festival
The French Quarter will be filled with the sounds of zydeco music and the aroma of authentic Creole cuisine compliments of the NOLA Zydeco Festival on July 3. Tamica Lee […]
Freekbass releases “Drive,” a summer soulful anthem about driving long stretches of highway
Over the past fifteen months, Freekbass has kept busy launching his weekly “Saturday Night Chit-Chat” show and releasing a steady stream of new singles and content. His latest effort, “Drive,” […]
Louisiana legislature declares Clifton Chenier Day
Clifton Chenier, the Grammy-winning King of Zydeco, has a day named in his honor. On May 25, the Louisiana House of Representatives adopted a resolution that proclaims June 25, from 2021 […]
French Quarter Festival returns with more than 200 acts on 19 stages
The non-profit French Quarter Festivals, Inc. (FQFI) is excited to announce the return of French Quarter Festival presented by Chevron. Festival organizers didn’t want to let another calendar year pass without […]
Anwar Nasir named new executive director of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Anwar Nasir — a celebrated leader at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, Omaha Symphony, and Atlanta Ballet and a coveted speaker at national arts and music conferences—has been named […]
Basin Street Records establishes licensing agreement with Morial Convention Center
The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has reached a licensing agreement with Basin Street Records, an award-winning, New Orleans-focused record label. Under this agreement, Basin Street Records provides […]
Lomax Digital Archive features seven decades of roots-music research
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) has launched of the Lomax Digital Archive, a website that provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John […]
