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News: Performance / Tour

New Orleans Helsinki Connection - Together Again: At Last!

New Orleans Helsinki Connection - Together Again: At Last!

This April will be the first time in years that New Orleans Helsinki Connection's original lineup, featured on the band's debut album “At Last," is playing together. The all star band was first conceived in the summer of 2001 when Tricia Boutté, Katja Toivola, and Thomas Rönnholm were on a lengthy tour in Finland. One night, ...

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News: Career

New Orleans Trumpeter Leroy Jones Performed At Super Bowl VI In 1972

New Orleans Trumpeter Leroy Jones Performed At Super Bowl VI In 1972

Super Bowl VI, on January 16, 1972, was played in New Orleans' Tulane Stadium between the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. The halftime entertainment consisted of a “Salute to Louis Armstrong", a tribute to Crescent City's best-known trumpeter who had passed away the previous year, on July 6, 1971. The show featured a then 13-year-old Leroy ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Returns To Bourbon Street

Jazz Returns To Bourbon Street

New Orleans' Bourbon Street is returning to its original music one club at a time as rhythms of authentic New Orleans jazz float through the summer air. Up until the 1980's the sounds of jazz were flowing out of several bars and clubs on Bourbon Street. Blue Angel had George Finola with Clarence Ford and Ed ...

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News: Recording

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Releases New Album Paradise On Earth

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Releases New Album Paradise On Earth

It’s been eight years since their debut album At Last and now; another collaboration from this diverse ensemble once again ferrying jazz lovers to a better understanding of musical intimacy. Along with a fresh set of titles, the band’s lineup is also slightly augmented on this new, captivating recording. Finnish based drummer and co-founder of the ...

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News: Festival

New Orleans Jazz 95 Miles North of the Arctic Circle

New Orleans Jazz 95 Miles North of the Arctic Circle

Leroy Jones and Spirit of New Orleans are playing Ylläs Jazz Blues, one of the world's northernmost jazz festivals in Finnish Lapland. Helsinki-based group Spirit Of New Orleans (SONO) is headed to Ylläs in the end of January with one of New Orleans' top trumpeters, Leroy Jones, as its soloist. Ylläs Jazz Blues is one of ...

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News: Award / Grant

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Awarded a Grant by the Threadhead Records Foundation

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Awarded a Grant by the Threadhead Records Foundation

Jazz ensemble New Orleans Helsinki Connection is one of Threadhead Records Foundation's 2010 grants recipients. The grant was awarded for the completion of group's new recording project, “Love Song For New Orleans." The Threadhead Records Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 that operates out of Santa Monica, CA. It's predecessor and affiliate, volunteer-run and fan-funded Threadhead Records ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Spirit of New Orleans Performs at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark

Spirit of New Orleans Performs at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark

Spirit Of New Orleans, the Helsinki-based band that was founded in 2001, will be performing at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark June 25-27, 2009. This is the first time in the festival's 44- year history that jazz musicians from Finland are a part of the performer roster. Riverboat Jazz Festival is one Europe's biggest ...

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News: Event

Leroy Jones Reassembles the Fairview Brass Band for a Special Concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2009

Leroy Jones Reassembles the Fairview Brass Band for a Special Concert at the New Orleans Jazz &  Heritage Festival 2009

This historic event, taking place at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, will reunite one of the most important brass bands in New Orleans' brass band history. The Fairview Baptist Church Christian Marching Band was founded in 1970, and was the brainchild of reverend Andrew Darby, pastor of the Fairview Baptist Church. Reverend Darby ...

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News: Performance / Tour

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Performs at the 40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Performs at the 40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

The New Orleans, LA and Helsinki, Finland based group “New Orleans Helsinki Connection" will perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 2, 2009 under the leadership of trombonist Katja Toivola. One of the biggest jazz festivals in the United States, the esteemed NOJHF will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The ...

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News: TV / Film

Leroy Jones on Abc26/Wgno's "Good Morning New Orleans"

Leroy Jones on Abc26/Wgno's "Good Morning New Orleans"

Leroy Jones will be performing on ABC26/WGNO's “Good Morning New Orleans" show tomorrow morning Wednesday March 18 between 6:15 and 7:00 AM. The band will consist of Leroy Jones, Todd Duke, Mitchell Player, and Bunchy Johnson and they will be performing songs from Leroy's new album “Sweeter Than A Summer Breeze". The CD was released on ...


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