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On tonight's show from the Eulipion Lounge, three hours of 1950s - 70s R&B
"music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" from New
Orleans only pop-up music club with the unique "Theater of Your Mind" stages.
Tonight's bill features Johnny Adams, Jack Dupree...
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On June 6, 2013, Hillel at Tulane University hosted a panel discussion: Does Progress Destroy Culture?, which tackled questions regarding how gentrification and urban and economic development impacts New Orleans culture. Click through to watch a UStream recording of the panel'...
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A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 29 at 11 am in Lawless Memorial Chapel at Dillard University for Mercedes Tucker Stamps, a highly esteemed music educator, who taught for over thirty years at 10 different New Orleans schools. She passed away recently in North Car...
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This week’s program is Part 3 of a three part series, celebrating four
years of “New Orleans All the Way Live”.
This week we hear from the musicians who make New Orleans their home. Bruce
Daigrepont shows us the guts of an accordion. Walter “Wolfman” Washington
talks about...
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This Thursday, June 6, Hillel at Tulane University is hosting a panel
discussion entitled "Does Progress Destroy Culture?", which will tackle
questions regarding how gentrification and urban and economic development
impacts New Orleans culture. For all the event details, g...
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This week we hear from the musicians who make New Orleans their home. Bruce Daigrepont shows us the guts of an accordion. Walter “Wolfman” Washington talks about how his uncle showed him how to tune a guitar. Jeff Albert talks about “Open Ears”, a weekly music series at the ...
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This month's recipe, which comes to us courtesy of Liberty’s Kitchen, is a traditional New Orleans bread pudding. That, of course, makes it the best of all the many versions in the world!
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We just received word from Jason Patterson that the wonderful soul of jazz
giant Mulgrew Miller passed on May 29th.
He kindly came on air at Jazz from the French Market and spoke with us this
April before his show at Snug Harbor.
Jason remembers: Mulgrew had just done a s...
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Preservation Hall is the kind of venerable institution that seems to have been around forever, but of course there was a time when it was new. Its founding in 1961 as a home for traditional jazz attracted national attention, including this video clip: a 2min 36sec story from t...
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