Previous Album Releases

Released in December 2017 Dave Bartholomew: Jump Children! (Imperial Singles Plus 1950-1962) (Jasmine) Grayson Capps: Scarlett Roses (Royal Potato Family) Crooked Vines: Alive (Independent) Dick Deluxe: Dive Bar Christmas (FritzCo) Ken Colyer Trust Band with Joe Payton: At Cafe […]

5 (ish) Questions With Upbeat Academy Director Matthew Zarba

In January, OffBeat presented the Community Music Award to Upbeat Academy, a recognition due in no small part to the organization’s director, Matthew Zarba. On Saturday, March 10, Upbeat Academy […]

The complete list of nominees for Best of the Beat

The OffBeat Music and Cultural Arts Foundation’s Best of the Beat Awards 2017 nominations are in. We solicited nominations from musicians and others in the music community. We then gave […]

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And The Nominees Are…Vote Now For Best Of The Beat Awards 2017!

Tickets are on sale now for the January 25 event. Early-bird ticket prices end this Friday, December 15. Yesterday (December 12), OffBeat.com announced the headlining tribute at our Best of the […]

Fried Chicken Fest 2017: Full Food And Music Lineup

This weekend, the Fried Chicken Festival, this year rechristened a national event–with food vendors to prove it–returns for second year in its new riverfront home at Woldenberg Park. Now a two-day […]

Music And Culture Coalition Of New Orleans Celebrates 5 Years

On Friday, September 29, the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCCNO) will celebrate a milestone with an anniversary party including live entertainment and a raffle. The event, hosted […]

The Fried Chicken Festival returns with more space, more vendors and more music

Scoff all you like about the deluge of new festivals popping up all over town these days. Whether it was the general conceptual appeal of a day-long fried chicken celebration […]

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National Fried Chicken Festival to feature Big Freedia, Big Sam, Naughty Professor

Big Freedia, Naughty Professor, Big Sam’s Funk Nation and Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs are among the acts that will perform at the National Fried Chicken Festival in New Orleans. […]

Photos: The Meters celebrate 50 years at the Orpheum Theater

All four original members of The Meters returned to the Orpheum Theater for yet another post-Jazz Fest show on Saturday, April 29. This time around the seminal New Orleans funk band celebrated […]