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Casa Samba provides a home for Brazilian music and culture in New Orleans through classes and performances that capture the spirit of Carnival in Brazil. This week's Street Talk explores the connection between Brazilian Carnival and New Orleans' Mardi Gras, as well as their Af...
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Contest: Jazz Fest, Then & Now
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The 40th annual Jazz & Heritage Festival has one of the best lineups we’ve seen in years. E-mail us a complete list of this year’s performers who also played at the very first Fest — along with your...
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Professor "Fess" Longhair remains one of the most recognizable piano talents
to come out of Louisiana, often called the Father of New Orleans R&B. His
funky, rumba-based piano style and unique singing voice livened up nightclubs
and festivals spanning four decades until his...
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Festival Season Starts Now!
A note from Programming Director Dwayne Breashears:
Can you feel it? That low rumble and electric tingle heralds the approach of
the 40th annual Jazz Fest, which is only a week away.
Here in the Crescent City, the buzz is building fast and fur...
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We’re now in the height of Louisiana’s crawfish season (mid-March to mid-May), so now’s the perfect time for a delectable dish like crawfish pasta. Can’t get crawfish? Substitute shrimp, oysters, or lump crabmeat.
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On May 9, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival honored the life, legacy,
and memory of the great saxophonist Alvin "Red" Tyler. Tyler was an integral
part of the J&M Studio band run by Dave Bartholomew, which backed up everyone
from Fats Domino and Little Richard to Sh...
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We had a great time at French Quarter Fest sampling the Crescent City's rich tapestry of music on lots of different stages around the Quarter. We hope you enjoyed our live broadcasts during the Fest, and thanks to all who picked up their Jazz Fest Brass Passes or just stopped ...
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Sometime after 11 PM on Tuesday, April 7, one of New Orleans hardest working
and best songwriters will come on to promote his new record, "How To Be A
Cannonball." He's famous for such songs as "It's Not the Years; It's the
Miles," "When I Make My Money," "Fine Ass Chemise...
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Connie Jones is a master trumpeter and cornet player as well as a member of
the French Quarter Festival's entertainment committee.
Connie first picked up a bugle while in military school, and he began playing
trumpet when he was 10 years old. When he was just 18 years old...
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