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Celebrate While We Incinerate
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Celebrate While We Incinerate

Malevitus has never sounded weirder or more beautiful.

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March 2020
Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph [talks back]
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Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph [talks back]

As eclectic as the New Orleans music scene is, it’s still hard to imagine an artist having a more diverse career than Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, who, at the age of 31, sings in three bands that could hardly be more different.

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February 2020
Indie Rock's 10-Year Anniversary
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Indie Rock's 10-Year Anniversary

New Orleans rock artists have always been a part of the city’s music scene.

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March 2020
THE ICEMEN COMETH
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THE ICEMEN COMETH

THE ICEMAN SPECIAL MAKES MUSICAL MAGIC WITH A CROSS-GENERATIONAL COLLABORATION AND FAMILY TIES

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March 2020
Christone ‘‘Kingfish'' Ingram talks back
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Christone ‘‘Kingfish'' Ingram talks back

A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram comes from the land of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and Skip James. Just turned 21, this young man with the blues respects his music’s past even as he shapes its future.

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March 2020
Mr. Z
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Mr. Z

Matthew Zarba is Upbeat Academy’s unflappable rap principal.

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March 2020
A Walking Spirit
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A Walking Spirit

Victor Harris, the Spirit of Fi-Yi-Yi, celebrates 55 years of beauty and culture.

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February 2020
Playing For His Life
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Playing For His Life

Darius Lyndsley is on a mission to turn his art into something more.

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February 2020
The Supreme Green Fairy
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The Supreme Green Fairy

Tank and the Bangas reign over krewe Bohème.

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February 2020
Felipe's Mexican Taqueria
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Felipe's Mexican Taqueria

Everyone has a handful of go-to restaurants they count on for consistently delicious dining experiences.

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February 2020
Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes Talks Back
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Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes Talks Back

Mississippi’s Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the keeper of the Bentonia blues tradition flame. He follows such earlier practitioners of the country-blues style as Skip James,

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December 2019
The Story Of People And Place
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The Story Of People And Place

The Folk Alliance celebrates creativity and supports traditions.

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January 2020
Rhiannon Giddens Talks Back
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Rhiannon Giddens Talks Back

In 2007, Rhiannon Giddens performed at the Folk Alliance International conference with the aspiring black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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January 2020
Positive vibrations HeartBeat Award (Musician) Margie Perez
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Positive vibrations HeartBeat Award (Musician) Margie Perez

Margie Perez embodies what it means to be a working artist in New Orleans right now: she plays whenever possible, constantly expanding her reach with a variety of bands and collaborations.

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January 2020
Positive vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer)  Clarence “Delco” Dalcour
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Positive vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer) Clarence “Delco” Dalcour

Clarence Dalcour, 71, is a soft-spoken man who as Big Chief Delco of the Creole Osceola displays old-time Black Indian ways that he acquired through listening and observing the elder chiefs.

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January 2020
True Food Kitchen
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True Food Kitchen

Locals don’t have to go too far back in time to remember just how challenging it was to find restaurants that offered a variety of healthy options, let alone cater to them.

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January 2020
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Steve Masakowski
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Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Steve Masakowski

Steve Masakowski never focused on making teaching his career.

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5 mins  |
January 2020
The Banjo
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The Banjo

An unusual voice in the story of New Orleans music.

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4 mins  |
January 2020
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC CHARLIE GABRIEL
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC CHARLIE GABRIEL

WHEN CHARLIE GABRIEL, 87, WAS A YOUNGSTER OF maybe eight or nine years old, he had a talk with God.

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January 2020
Shirani Rae of Peaches Records
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Shirani Rae of Peaches Records

Lifetime Achievement in Music Business

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January 2020
It Was Like A Fantasy
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It Was Like A Fantasy

Accordion-making was considered a hobby, but randy Falcon turned it into a business.

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January 2020
Moo! A Very Loose Cattle Christmas
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Moo! A Very Loose Cattle Christmas

Michael Cerveris and Loose Cattle celebrate “The Day it Snows on Christmas.”

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December 2019
Heartbreak And Cocaine
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Heartbreak And Cocaine

Andre Lovett and his bandmates have a sound that’s not easily pinned down.

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4 mins  |
December 2019
The Elysian Bar
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The Elysian Bar

After a four-year, $20 million rehabilitation project, ASH NYC and New Orleans resident Nathalie Jordi transformed the 19th century St. Peter & Paul compound in the Faubourg Marigny—consisting of a church, rectory, convent and school buildings—into the remarkably beautiful 71-room boutique Hotel Peter & Paul, which also features the Elysian Bar.

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December 2019
Food And Lagniappe
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Food And Lagniappe

Midnight noodle is much more than just a meal.

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December 2019
Ready, Willing And Able
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Ready, Willing And Able

Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Swing Back onto the Scene.

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December 2019
Dual Consciousness
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Dual Consciousness

The Pogues plus Lost Bayou ramblers equal Poguetry.

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December 2019
Christmas Gumbo
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Christmas Gumbo

The ultimate new Orleans holiday playlist.

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8 mins  |
December 2019
Ghost Stories: Paul Sanchez Tells His Tale.
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Ghost Stories: Paul Sanchez Tells His Tale.

The dreams I had were fun but they were dreams meant for the young I had to start anew so I could grow I had to learn to breathe had to learn to believe in myself I had to learn to let it go — Paul Sanchez, “I’m A Song, I’m A Story, I’m A Ghost.”

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November 2019
Terence Blanchard [Talks Back]
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Terence Blanchard [Talks Back]

In June, the Metropolitan Opera announced that it will stage an opera by an African-American composer for the first time in the company’s 163-year history.

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November 2019

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