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Radio Acadiana: Tuning in to South Louisiana
Tuning into the South Louisiana radio scene in Lafayette or Eunice either takes a little word of mouth or else a lot of trial and error. Not a lot is […]
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Nick LaRocca’s Jazz Pioneers
Only four years before I learned to play the trumpet…the first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominic James LaRocca. They called him […]
Cajun Capers: Lafayette’s Festivals Acadiens
Grab your dancing partner, pack up your dancing shoes and head over to Lafayette this month. Festivals Acadiens, the Cajun equivalent of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, takes […]
Zydefest
Looking for a hot time over the Labor Day weekend? With South Louisiana’s sultry summer weather and a zydeco festival, you’ve got it! The seventh annual Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival […]
New Music-Progressive in Perspective: An OffBeat Primer
On a recent Saturday night, the variety of music available in New Orleans was enough to generate an Excedrin headache in even the most earnest of aficionados. The French Quarter, […]
Save the Bones: A Conversation with Danny Barker
Danny Barker is a jazz legend. He has spent his life in the jazz hothouses of New Orleans and New York at times when these scenes were exploding in critical […]
Keeping One’s Cool
“Summertime and livin’ is easy…” Who said that? Well, it is kind of easy you know, because in this kind of tropical climate you simply must take it easy. Push […]
Steamboats: An American Legend Lives On
“Tote that barge. Lift that bale. Get a little drunk and you land in jail…Ole Man River, he just keeps rollin’ along…” Those famous lyrics sung by Paul Robeson in […]
Jazz Fest: Time to Get Out the Sunblock
Here it is—the complete schedule of what’s happening at the 20th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the greatest music, food and crafts event in the country. Almost 3,000 musicians, […]
The Symphony Returns
In the 1970s, a festival organizer came to explore New Orleans as the site of a dance, drama, opera and classical music festival. The response he received, says Tulane University […]
