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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 ...
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 ...
Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square Ned Sublette Hardcover; 368 pages ISBN: 1556527306 Chicago Review Press 2008 It is an African-American Atlantis, New Orleans: a crescent-shaped city six-feet under water at the mouth of the ...
The New Orleans Moonshiners at Donna's on Rampart Street
by Wade Luquet
New Orleans MoonshinersDonna's Bar and GrillNew Orleans, LouisianaMarch 2, 2009 Donna's Bar and Grill on Rampart Street is a magical place for brass band jazz in New Orleans. Established fifteen years ago as a venue for brass bands by Donna and Charlie Sims, Donna's is what its owners call “a real ...
Mark Mullins & Jimmy Robinson at the Carrollton Station in New Orleans on January 30th
Bonerama founder, trombone virtuoso Mark Mullins will join guitarist Jimmy Robinson (Twangorama, Woodenhead) for an unplugged gig at Carrollton Station, New Orleans, on January 30th. Mark has been nominated for best trombone, and Jimmy best guitar, in Offbeat Magazine's BEST OF THE BEAT Awards. Also appearing on the show are master percussionist Michael Skinkus, bouzouki virtuoso ...
40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview
by Tod Smith
Seven days, two weekends, forty years. No matter how you measure it, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell is a musical and cultural rite of spring for hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. From its humble beginnings at Congo Square, to this the 40th anniversary, Jazz Fest always provides enough musical ...
Offbeat Best Guitarist Nominee Jimmy Robinson
New Orleans guitarist Jimmy Robinson has been nominated for best guitarist of 2008 by OFFBEAT MAGAZINE. Fellow nominees are Sonny Landreth and Walter “Wolfman" Washington. Jimmy's solo release “Vibrating strings" was also named #20 of Offbeat's best releases of 2008. To vote, visit offbeat.com. The awards show is January 31st at The House Of Blues in ...
Theater, Jazz Venues Officially Historic
A theater on Baronne Street, an eight-story former telephone company building on Poydras Street and a group of small commercial buildings on South Rampart Street -- structures without a lot in common except that they are New Orleans' newest officially designated landmarks. The Central Business District panel of the Historic District Landmarks Commission voted recently to ...
New Orleans Guitar Virtuoso Jimmy Robinson at Carrollton Station in New Orleans on November 28th
New Orleans guitar virtuoso Jimmy Robinson will do a solo, acoustic show in New Orleans at Carrollton Station on Friday, November 28th. He will be joined by special guests Bonerama's Mark Mullins on trombone, Johnny Sketch And The Dirty Notes' Marc Paradis on cello, and master percussionist Michael Skinkus. Plenty of solo material from the critically ...
Trumpeter Leroy Jones Interviewed at AAJ
While New Orleans may not be as popular as some of her sisters to the North, her personality and charm are second to none. She is as diversified as the people who live within her boundaries. hether times are hard or happy, joyful or mournful, she always has a song in her heart that she is ...
