Duane Bartels Band is a horn-heavy sextet that melds New Orleans musical traditions – funk, jazz, and R&B – with echoes of the Brian Setzer Orchestra paired with Americana and indie rock flavors. Founded in 2016, the band has gained a following across the New Orleans club s... Read more

Rory Danger & The Danger Dangers are a genre-defying, theatrical punk rockabilly ensemble that immediately captured the New Orleans musical imagination when they debuted at Chazfest in 2010. Led by the multi-talented saxophonist, singer, and clarinetist Rory Danger (who loo... Read more

The Creole String Beans is a supergroup sextet celebrating the jukebox days of New Orleans rock n roll. The band mixes up a healthy dose of buried treasures from Fats Domino, John Fred, Frankie Ford, and other swampy pop and R&B sounds of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s with a... Read more

George Brown is an energetic trombonist and vocalist who fronts his George Brown Band and Demiurgic, and cut his chops with the celebrated Roots of Music and the world-renowned Hot 8 Brass Band. He has opened for acts such as Soul Rebels, Mono Neon, Ghost Note, and many oth... Read more

Jimmy Robinson is a world-renowned guitarist who often can be heard with his seminal fusion band Woodenhead and with several other groups including the New Orleans Guitar Masters. Robinson grew up in New Orleans and studied classical guitar and composition at Loyola Univers... Read more

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Much like gumbo, the famous dish of their hometown, the New Orleans-born Cowboy Mouth uses a potent blend of musical ingredients - rock, blues, punk, funk, country, pop, soul and whatever else feels good – to create their bodacious, kickass tunes. Frontman, drummer, and co-... Read more

Dumpstaphunk reigns as New Orleans’ top powerhouse funk, fusion and jam band, led by the next generation of the legendary Neville family – cousins Ivan and Ian. Ivan Neville started the band to play with him on a 2001 Jazzfet set, and over 20 years later Dumpstaphunk has bu... Read more

Dale Ramon Dolese was born in New Orleans and raised on New Orleans Ninth Ward R&B and funk from an early age. His parents both from the Lower Nine, fed Dale a steady diet of Fats Domino, Oliver Morgan (“Who Shot the Lala”), Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Dr. John, The Meters ... Read more