French Quarter Fest A-Z

The French Quarter Festival is free, with 15 stages dotted throughout the Quarter. That’s a lot of stages and a lot of musicians from here and around the world. As […]

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Jazz Fest 2002 Redux

Jazz Fest 2002 Redux

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Jazz Fest Edutainment

Welcome to the best musical festival in the world.” I think I’ve said that quite a few times over the last fifteen years that OffBeat has been in business. The […]

Critics’ Choice: The Best Louisiana CDs of 2000

Culled from over 300 Louisiana releases, our Critics’ Choices of 2000 were a joint effort of OffBeat’s editors and writers, including Joseph L. Irrera, Bunny Matthews, Cristina Diettinger, Robert Fontenot, […]

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Fest Focus: Ann Savoy

Ann Savoy

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Zydeco Fanatics Sail the Blue… Why Do They Keep Picking on Music Clubs? OffBeat Moves to the Margins

It’s not often that I see four-inch "I Love New Orleans" tattoos on the shoulders of people I hang with. I saw one of ‘em and lots of other evidence […]

New Releases in Bayou Land

What better occasion than OffBeat’s 10th anniversary for this column to gratefully acknowledge the influence the magazine has had in bringing the many and diverse artists of southwest Louisiana to […]