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KAYLEE POCHE New Orleans bassist and music educator Peter Harris has become a keystone of the city’s modern jazz scene, thanks to leadership of Firm Roots and other combos at the Bayou Bar ...
Andrews and his band Orleans Avenue will be joined by Southern rock group JJ Grey and Mofro, along with fellow New Orleans ...
Want to honor and celebrate Juneteenth in New Orleans? You can enjoy live music, celebrate with friends and learn about Black ...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, takes place from April 24 to May 4 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...
Because Jazz Fest celebrates the "indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana," every musical style associated with the city and state such as the "blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun ...
Bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste played the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival in 1970 with their groundbreaking funk band The Meters. More than 50 years later ...
When LVVRS frontman River Gibson says the band has a lot going on, he's not kidding. A return appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a new single dropping soon, a new album out ...
Casablanca will emulate the music-filled streets of New Orleans this weekend for CasaNola, a dreamy and soulful jazz festival ...
In addition to music, drummer Herlin Riley, R&B legend James “Sugar Boy” Crawford Jr., organist Betty Ann Lastie Williams and ...
“The City of New Orleans has a long tradition of jazz funerals, but Saturday it is holding a Jazz funeral.” So read the news ...
And for one night in 1919, New Orleans danced not out of joy — but to stay alive ... The writer promised to spare any home ...