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Jazz Fest 2012 A to Z: Guide to the Artists Playing the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
This year’s Jazz Fest lineup is likely its broadest, and it’s a safe bet that nobody—festival staff included— knows everybody. Here’s a guide to who’s who. All the information presented […]
Jazz Fest 2010 Performers: A-Z
Not even the diehards know everybody. You can have a deep passion for New Orleans and Louisiana music, and there’s still somebody performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage […]
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up In Flames (Sound of New Orleans)
Unlike his contemporaries Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin and Curley Taylor, whose fathers also played professionally, Dwayne Dopsie leans more towards the older, bluesier variety of his father, the legendary Rockin’ […]
Jazz Fest: From “A” to “Z”
We’re raised not to act like know-it-alls, and nothing reminds you that you really don’t know it all like looking at the Jazz Fest cubes. No matter how much of […]
Something in the Air
The uninitiated may be tempted to call Chris Ardoin the Phil Collins of Zydeco, especially after listening to his new CD, M.V.P. which includes an accordion-flavored version of Collins’ “In […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
1997: CD Year in Review
Once again it’s time for our panel of experts to gather and give out the grades to the latest batch of Louisiana releases. 1997 marked a very good year for […]
Zydekidz
The kids are definitely in the hall! Generation Z, the new breed of zydeco artists, is beginning to make its sound heard. With new venues to play and demand for […]
