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10 best New Orleans festivals to jazz up your spring
Now that we've all rested up from Mardi Gras, it's time for New Orleans' next great burst of joy: spring festival season. Why ...
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“The Axeman Cometh”: This Month in 1919, New Orleans Residents Play Jazz All Night to Placate a Serial Killer
New Orleans was terrorized by a jazz-loving serial killer called the Axeman who demanded citizens play jazz music for him.
New Orleans Jazz Museum's Performance Center re-opens Wednesday
The grand "re-opening" of The New Orleans Jazz Museum's Performance Center is Wednesday, March 12, and the public is invited ...
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Musician Danny Barker was born in a Quarter tenement, about the same time trad jazz was emerging
Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker ...
Festival honoring New Orleans jazz hero Danny Barker
This week around the city there’s plenty of good music including that of Brooks and Mahmoud Chouki, all in celebration of ...
Red Cat Jazz Café: A Quarter Century of Keeping the Groove Alive in Houston
Red Cat is roaring back to life, this time, in a venue Sam had been eyeing for years—Bayou Place—in the heart of Downtown Houston.
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Jam Scene Heavyweights and New Orleans Greats to Participate in A Dream We Dreamed Tribute Concert to Phil Lesh During Jazz Fest
ahead of the final weekend of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Artist participation includes jam-scene heavy hitters/ Big Easy stalwarts such as George Porter Jr. and Ivan Neville ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band talks bringing New Orleans to N.J. before big show
“A lot of people like to consider it the northernmost city in the Caribbean, or maybe America’s most European city,” ...