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Info courtesy of the New Orleans Film Society:
For the third year, the New Orleans Film Festival will include a programming
sidebar of films about music and musicians. Called “keeping {SCORE},”
this series was inspired by the city’s long musical legacy and the local
audienc...
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This year's Ponderosa Stomp featured "Architects of American Music"
including the likes of The Sonics, Swamp Dogg, Ty Wagner, Gaunga Dyns, and
plenty more. Apart from the live concert over the weekend, the Stomp also
featured a Record Show and Music History Conference hoste...
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Director Lily Keber's Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
closes this year's 24th Annual New Orleans Film Festival, playing at the
Civic Theatre on Thursday, October 17 7:00p.
On October 8, tickets go on sale to general public.
The film, according to the festi...
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On this week’s program, we preview the upcoming Treme Culture Fest, a
three-day event that celebrates one of New Orleans’ most beloved
neighborhoods and talk brass bands with one of its natives, Kermit Ruffins.
During the hour, we also visit Cowbell, a restaurant in the Riv...
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The Whole Gritty City is a documentary premiering at this year's New Orleans
Film Festival. The film, per its web site "tells the story of three New
Orleans marching bands"--the Roots of Music Crusaders, the L.E. Rabouin High
School Marching Band, the O. Perry Walker High S...
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In order to properly funk-i-fy your day, here's the great George Porter, Jr.
guesting with the the McLovins (and accompanied by Grant's Tomb horns) at
last July's Gathering of the Vibes jam band festival in Bridgeport, CT.
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This is actually "the Ernie K-Doe Official Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame
Induction video", but the bulk of it consists of K-Doe performing a couple of
songs (including "Mother-in-Law") at Jazz Fest, sometime during the 1980s.
The sign in the background ("Schlitz Welcomes You...
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Walking up to Lafayette Square there's blues guitar playing, beer drinking
and as a cool fall breeze polishes your face it's inherently evident where
the barbeque is coming from. It's that time of the year... the Crescent City
Blues and BBQ Festival!
In commemoration, we b...
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