Music + Festivals

A New Orleans Kind of Music

The 2009 French Quarter Festival is April 17-19; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday...

MUSIC: Harken to New Orleans

RICK COLEMAN HAD NO WAY of predicting that Antoine “Fats” Domino’s high-profile presence at...

Uncle Lionel Batiste

A player in time

In the Beginning

The Ponderosa Stomp calls forth musicians who are still rocking By BILLY THINNES A story about...

Carnival Time!

The song comes at you like a smiling freight train, bravura saxophones and the...
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Read and Spin

The beats are “dirty-dirty” New Orleans, with lyrics to match, on Troubled the Water,...

Read and Spin

Resolve to put more music in your life in 2009; start with Jane Monheit’s...

Red Allen

Five years ago on a trip out west we pulled into a record store...

Festive Food

Cat Cora How has New Orleans influenced your cuisine?I grew up in Mississippi and...

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