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He’s had a few piano lessons since then and inherited inspiration from his dad Jake, who played guitar with the Dirty Dozen ...
The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival literally and figuratively spans Harry Connick Jr. to Lil Wayne. Those two very ...
For many years you’ve seen her signs all over the Fair Grounds at Jazz Fest.  They’re in parking lots giving out directions, ...
An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...
Santana, Cage the Elephant, Morris Day and the Time, David Shaw and more musicians and bands to see on the second Locals ...
Even the instruments used by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, founded with the hall in 1961, feel a bit old: It’s been ... traditional jazz alive, New Orleans art dealer Larry Borenstein invited ...
Lil Wayne will close out the main stage for the first time in his career Saturday — a feat that’s eluded most other rappers ...
Lil Wayne is now headlining Jazz Fest. Joseph King with the Gulf States Newsroom reports, it's a big moment for hip-hop artists in the city. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) JOSEPH KING, BYLINE: New Orleans ...
The words I borrowed as soon as I landed in New Orleans. Jazz is often tagged as America's only authentic art form ... Piren’s old barber shop. It was almost next to “Big 25”, the cabaret ...
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has arrived ... which runs from April 24 through May 4. Other artists scheduled to perform include Dave Matthews Band, Lenny Kravitz, Kacey Musgraves ...