New Orleans Music News
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Let the Music Roll with a Virtual Louisiana Grammy Concert
Louisiana is hosting its own virtual Grammy celebration in partnership with the Grammy Museum. While the event carries the Grammy name, it's not an award show. It won't be the...
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“Rise and Shine” Relief Video Will Fill You with Soul
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is on a mission. The goal? Help local, out-of-work musicians whose gigs, performances, and jobs have been put on hold due to...
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Habitat for Humanity Benefit Helps Local Musicians and Culture-Bearers
Local New Orleans musicians and cultural-bearers find themselves in a familiar struggle trying to navigate through this...
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Long Hard Journey Home: The Radiators Reunion is Coming to Tipitina’s TV
From the start, The Radiators had an affinity with the fishes. It's no wonder they dubbed their eclectic sound "Fish Head Music."...
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Jazz & Heritage Foundation Awards $1.2 million in Community Partnership Grants
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit behind the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, awarded $1.2 million in Community Partnership Grants for the year...
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Montreal’s OSHEAGA Music Festival 2021: “The Light at the End of the Tunnel”
OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival, a renowned music festival in Montreal, Quebec, is planning to hold a 2021 festival, while accommodating COVID social-distancing guidelines....
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Decking Preservation Hall With HALLiday Grams
Preservation Hall, a jazz venue in the French Quarter that aims to keep jazz culture and music alive and well in New Orleans, is introducing a special Christmas gift, entitled...
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MaCNNO Reopens Applications for Financial Aid for Musicians and Artists
Following up on their previous round of aid, The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCNNO) is taking online applications for financial aid for those in New Orleans who...
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Rockin’ Around the Computer Screen: “Christmas Without Tears” Virtual Concert Fundaiser
Harry Shearer and Judith Owen, the creators of the annual Christmas Without Tears Variety Charity program, have announced that the...
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Future Cowboys’ Life on Mars Album is Out of This World
The Future Cowboys' Life on Mars! album takes listeners on a journey through outer space unlike any other. All listeners will feel as though they are along for the ride and the...
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Louisiana Musicians Announced as Grammy Nominees
A number of Louisiana musicians have been announced as nominees for the 63rd Annual Grammys, which will be hosted by The Daily Show's own Trevor Noah and which will take place...
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Go Vinyl With Tipitina’s Record Club
Tipitina's, New Orleans's notable and beloved music venue owned by the band Galactic, is starting a new subscription service entitled the Tipitina's Record Club. This initiative...
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House of Blues New Orleans to Host Sabrina Stone on December 1
The formerly New York-based singer (and current Where Y'at writer) Sabrina Stone is making her debut in New Orleans as the main stage attraction at the House of Blues December...
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SaxKixAve Brings it to the Backyard
It's 5:45 on a perfect Saturday, Fall weather has just arrived, and I'm sitting outside listening to SaxKixAve, a new project from rapper Alfred Banks and Albert Allenback of Tank...
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The New Orleans Jazz Museum Announces 2020 Gala to Support Local Musicians
On Saturday, December 5, at 7 p.m., expect the third annual iteration of the Improvisations Gala at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Running until 11...
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Learn How to Be a Virtual Musician at the Sync Up Conference 2020
Even if you do not have much interest in the New Orleans live music scene (unlikely), you have almost definitely still seen or heard of the...
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Support Musical Artists With Tipitina’s Livestream
Tipitina's, Uptown's renowned music venue, is proud to announce their Save Tip's event—a free online benefit supporting musical artists. The...
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Happy 130th Birthday to Jazz Great Jelly Roll Morton!
Today, October 20, we arrive at Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe's 130th birthday. More famously known as Jelly Roll Morton, he was one of the kings...
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Unplugged: COVID-19 (and Facebook) Pull the Plug on the Local Electronic Music Scene
2019 was an epic year for live music in New Orleans. Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, and Essence Fest all saw record-breaking attendance, Buku Fest dropped the bass on a sold-out...
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Billions in Biloxi: Universal Music Planning $1.2 Billion Hotel and Resort in Biloxi
In an interesting new development, Universal Music Group is entering the hospitality business. According to WLOX, the group has just announced that it will be building...
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Five Places to Find the Perfect Pumpkin
It's the best time of the year. This is the time when you can do almost anything with a pumpkin. Have a pumpkin-painting or pumpkin-carving night with your family...
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You Can Still Get the Blues: Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival is Going Virtual
As you might have come to expect from many big-name festivals, an online celebration is the go-to substitute for their more corporeal counterparts that we are used to....
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Four Halloween Ways to Be Fearful Without Fearing the Virus
What is even creepier than this season's ghosts and ghouls and goblins? A super-contagious and unstoppable virus that will make you even sicker than ODing on candy...
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Dating in NOLA: Five Date-Night Ideas
Dates be can difficult to plan and sometimes they can be awkward, we get it. But as New Orleans is slowly reopening its doors and learning how to operate under "the new...
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Fröhliches Oktoberfest! Five Restaurants to Celebrate, German-Style
Oktoberfest is an annual festival that originated in Munich, Germany, meant to bring thousands of people together to enjoy traditional German cuisine, German beer,...
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Where to Watch the Saints Face Off Against the Lions This Weekend
It's been a shaky start to the season, but there's still plenty of time for the Saints to turn it around. Besides, maybe it's the shift in the weather (or maybe it's...
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Fall Classics: Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Presenting Series of Concerts
The COVID-19 pandemic put live music as we know it on hold for a while, allowing new developments to come alive, such as livestream concerts. The...
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Another Stride for Live Music: DBA New Orleans Presents DBA Live
The COVID-19 pandemic has put live concerts on pause for 2020, which means artists, music labels, and music clubs especially have to be creative if they still want to...