New Orleans Musicians
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Live Art by Livestream: “Geaux Live NOLA” Series Kicks Off This Week
Live music can be found at every turn in this city, but with the ongoing restrictions on bars and music venues, many musicians and artists are...
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New Orleans Musician Johnny Angel Has Risen to the Top
Johnny Angel is the lead singer of the New Orleans entertainment band The Swingin' Demons, a band that is known for its energetic...
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Don’t Stop the Music: Bounce Legend Big Freedia Discusses Cooking and Coronavirus
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally, social-distancing measures and hygiene regulations have changed life as we know it. The...
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Don’t Stop the Music: Cowboy Mouth is Staying in Touch With “The Groove of Life”
COVID-19 has crippled no other industry more than the one that depends on sweating masses of people gyrating together in close...
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Don’t Stop the Music: How Big Sam and His Funky Nation Are Handling the Coronavirus
Local legend Big Sam is just like the rest of us, so he's been cooped up in his home trying to avoid the virus. But he's also a musician, so...
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Don’t Stop the Music: “It’s Just Not the Same”—Rebirth Brass Band Deals With Impact of COVID-19
As the global coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of daily life, in New Orleans, the streets are noticeably much quieter. Indoor live entertainment is...
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Don’t Stop the Music: Ian Neville Releases New Album to Cope With Covid
Ian Neville grew up in a family of musicians who really lived in the Big Easy. Ian is the cousin of Ivan Neville and the son of Art....
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Don’t Stop the Music: Walter “Wolfman” Washington Misses Performing Live Music
"I haven't seen this city so empty, except for when Katrina passed through," said Walter "Wolfman" Washington. For many New Orleans musicians,...
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Five Streaming Music Events to Look Forward to This Week
It feels strange making this observation as someone who lives in New Orleans, but live music is as rare as gold these days. While social...
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Don’t Stop the Music: Bonerama's Craig Klein Keeping the Beat Alive
A look at how New Orleans musicians are keeping the music going during the pandemic.
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Album Review: Expect the Unexpected by the 79rs Gang is Mardi Gras Indian Music at Its Finest
The new full-length album Expect the Unexpected from the 79rs Gang features Mardi Gras Indian music in a way you've never heard before, with...
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Giuda Brings Glam Rock to the Big Easy
In 2007, Italian rock band Giuda emerged in the music scene with the charisma of their early punk predecessors and the stomping energy of 1970's glam rock 'n rollers. With a retro...
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Bourbon Street Blues: What It's Like Being A Bourbon Street Musician
Bourbon Street is named after a royal family of France, but these days, it's not a place associated with regality. The notorious 13-block street was a residential area for the...
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Aaron Neville Tells It Like It Is
In late 1966, when a song titled "Tell It Like It Is" exploded onto the pop music scene and quickly shot up to #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B surveys,...
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A Conversation with Anders Osborne on Learning the Buddha Blues and More
About twenty years ago or so, my dad took me to what I now know to be French Quarter Fest. Truth be told, I don't really recall many specifics about that day, except for one....
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Lost Bayou Ramblers: Not Just Fiddling Around
If you live in South Louisiana, you are probably familiar with Cajun music. And if you know Cajun music, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of the Lost Bayou...
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From Playing Empty Rooms to Headlining Voodoo: The Rise of The Revivalists
As you eagerly scrolled through the Voodoo Fest lineup on your phone the day the acts were announced, you were probably not expecting a local band to be billed so high, especially...
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A Short History of New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans would never have produced its most famous musical expression had it not been for a confluence of seemingly unrelated events. Difficult economic times and a growing...
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Little Freddie King Has The Blues
Little Freddie King may be the very last of the great bluesmen. A true Mississippian who fell in love with the city and did whatever he could to get here and become a renowned...
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Trombone Shorty is Not Short on Sound
Troy Andrews was born to be a star. Hailing from the Treme neighborhood, the man who would come to be known as Trombone Shorty grew up surrounded by music. His family members are...
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Gov't Mule Has Something To Say
Riding on the heels of their latest album, Revolution Come… Revolution Go, Gov’t Mule’s guitarist, Warren Haynes, describes his experiences in New Orleans...
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Louisiana Man Doug Kershaw
Some people might think that multi-instrumentalist Doug Kershaw got his start in 1969 when he was appearing on nationally aired TV shows and touring with people like Eric Clapton...
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Album Review: The Quaalords – The Quaalords
The Quaalords – The Quaalords Nosferotica White Tear Big Fang Carnage Osso Bucco Thermal City Torch Song for a...
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Amanda Shaw: All Grown Up
Since the tender age of eight, Amanda Shaw has been exciting audiences throughout south Louisiana, the nation, and the world with her vivacious performances. The fiery young woman...
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A Conversation with Henry Butler...
Photos by Tim Ellis/French Quarter Photography In late March, Henry Butler performed for the first time since his three weeks of cancer treatments in Germany....
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A Conversation with Aaron Neville
“Where y’at?” Aaron Neville asked with a chuckle. “That’s a New Orleans thing.” Neville knows all things New Orleans. Even though...
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A Tribute To Allen Toussaint
If it's true what they say about a person's life being measured by the volume of their body of work, then Allen Toussaint's place in that pantheon is...
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An Interview with Cowboy Mouth's Fred LeBlanc
The name of the band is Cowboy Mouth, which is the enthusiastic chant you will hear as Cowboy Mouth’s animated drummer and frontman, Fred Leblanc, leads his exuberant crowd...
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5 Up and Coming Local Musicians
As a junior at Loyola University of New Orleans, a school known for its emphasis on musical studies along with the uncommon Music Industries major, I’ve heard many different...