Saturday, March 25, 2017

Thread head Raffle 2017

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Threadhead Raffle - Online Fundraiser of the Threadhead Cultural Foundation Providing Cultural Grants to Musicians, Artists, and Others in NOLA since 2009. Drawing 4/17/16

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Happy Jazz Fest, check out new local music releases when in New Orleans #NOLA #JazzFest

The 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is just a few days away!

NOLA is ready for the arrival of a hundred thousand or so music fans from around the world. With the 6 zillion bands playing in New Orleans, be sure to take some local music back home with you.  Stop in the Louisiana Music Factory and stock up on the latest CDs.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

HBO’s Treme Finishes Shooting Final Season | Offbeat Magazine

It was a raw and misty late afternoon in February during Mardi Gras. Spotlights illuminated the gloaming Marigny shadows with a surreal, almost funereal light. David Simon and Eric Overmyer huddled inside a doorway across the street from the Spotted Cat, watching Davis Rogan do a run-through of “Godzilla vs. M.L.K.” before Steve Zahn as Davis McAlary would sing it for the shoot. The music rattled across Frenchmen Street as crew members directed extras and music director Blake Leyh checked levels on headphones at the production station in the alley next door to the club. It was to be the last club music shoot in the HBO series Treme’s extraordinary three years documenting the music and culture of New Orleans... Read More on  OFFBEAT.COM

Monday, February 11, 2013

American Routes Mardi Gras show!

Nick Spitzer takes American Routes on a musical tour of Mardi Gras and even teaches a bit of history along the way. Meet parade float builders, the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme and Mardi Gras Indians...

February 6th, 2013-American Routes ~ Dance Your Blues Away on Mardi Gras Day

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Jazz Fest 2013 Posters Feature Aaron Neville & Buckwheat Zydeco

Posters have long been a commodity of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, aka Jazz Fest. Collectors rush to buy their coveted signed, numbered editions early and annually. This year’s posters, unveiled Tuesday, is the 39th in the annual poster series, highlighting Aaron Neville, singing with his tambourine in hand. The Congo Square poster is zydeco musician Stanley Dural, Jr., known since the age of four as “Buckwheat Zydeco.”

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HEART SONG: A Portrait of Aaron Neville


By James Michalopoulos

In 1960, a teenager named Aaron Neville with the voice of an angel joined brother Art in the family music business. Art had a 1954 hit with the Hawketts’ classic, “Mardi Gras Mambo.” Aaron’s solo career began promisingly with Allen Toussaint’s (Jazz Fest 2009 by Michalopoulos) "Over You," rising to #21 on the national R&B charts. Despite this early success, Aaron was working as a longshoreman when Hawkett George Davis came calling in 1965 with a song he co-wrote, "Tell It Like It Is." Getting no takers for the recording from any big label, Davis started Par-lo Records and pressed 2,000 copies of it in late 1966. Aaron’s vocalization went on to own #1 on the R & B chart for a month, #2 on Billboard's Hot 100 for 14 weeks and is #391 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs. The docks would have to make do without Aaron who earned more gold in 1989 for “Don’t Know Much,” (#2 on the Pop charts) and 1991 with “Everybody Plays the Fool,” a top-10 Pop hit.

Beyond his still sought-out early work, Aaron lent his transcendent voice to recordings by The Wild Tchoupitoulas (led by uncle George “Big Chief Jolly” Landry), The Neville Brothers (Jazz Fest 1997 by Pavy), Linda Ronstadt and Trisha Yearwood, among others. His collaborations have garnered four Grammys, two with Linda Ronstadt (with a double-platinum album), one with Trisha Yearwood and one with The Neville Brothers. His mastery ranges gracefully across jazz, R&B, pop, rock, blues, funk, soul, country, gospel and urban styles. The simple purity of his voice led to his being named “Best Male Singer” two years running in Rolling Stone’s critics’ poll.

Aaron Neville’s modulating vibrato tenor falsetto is the greatest instrument born in New Orleans. And he keeps it finely polished, as evidenced by the just-released “My True Story,” his Blue Note album debut produced by Keith Richards and Don Was. NPR’s All Things Considered named it one of the most anticipated releases of 2013. All the angels sing when Aaron opens his heart.

James Michalopoulos’ deeply felt portrait distills Aaron’s twin inspirations: New Orleans and spirituality. The city is fully captured by the artist’s distinguished minimalist architectural elements, a wrought iron fence and gas lampposts. Ethereal doves embody spirits set aflutter by an angelic voice. Trees bow in nature’s embrace, and of course, a yellow moon tops the harmoniously lighted dusk scene. Michalopoulos has created five definitive contributions to this, the world’s most collected poster series (1998, 2001, 2003, 2006 & 2009) including three of its most valuable. Michalopoulos is a celebrated representational New Orleans artist best known for his spiritually imbued architectural renderings. His vivid pigmentation is fully realized in this silkscreen printing, which applies each color individually to museum standard papers. Michalopoulos exhibits extensively in the art capitals of Europe and the United States. He maintains studios and galleries in Burgundy France and New Orleans.


BUCKWHEAT’S ZYDECO: A Congo Square Tribute to the Spirit of Southwest Louisiana

By R. Gregory Christie

Before Congo Square hosted the first Jazz Fest, before it became the spiritual center of Jazz Fest’s celebration of Afro-Caribbean influences on American art, it was America’s original musical melting pot. Its core position in the development of Louisiana’s cultural gifts to the world is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the interplay that birthed Zydeco. Zydeco is the modern embodiment of Southwest Louisiana’s Creole music, which originated in the mid-1800s on plantations around St. Charles Parish and migrated the short distance to the historical Congo Square. Modern Zydeco evolved a half-century later, in those same Creole communities on the Louisiana prairies during the 1920’s, drawing from blues, Jazz, R&B and Cajun influences. Congo Square thus served the extraordinary role in Zydeco’s development of both hosting the music’s earliest expressions and influencing its modern form in a virtuous two-step feedback loop that set the world dancing.

In the 1950’s the great Clifton Chenier took those infectious roots, added a hot R&B rhythm section, and delivered its frenetic beat to a broader audience. Lafayette native Stanley Dural, Jr., known since the age of four as “Buckwheat” because his braided hair was reminiscent of the Our Gang movies character, was more a fan of R&B than of Zydeco. As a keyboard prodigy he backed major roadhouse acts including Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (Congo Square 2005 by George Hunt). But in 1976 his father persuaded him to join family friend Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band as an organist. By 1979, fully smitten by - and tutored on - the accordion, he re-launched himself as Buckwheat Zydeco and the Ils Sont Partis Band. By the 1980s, he had reached an even larger audience than Chenier, becoming the first Zydeco act signed to a major label. Grammy nominations became a regular occurrence for his innovations, culminating in a 2009 Grammy for “Lay Your Burden Down” as well as an Emmy for his TV music. On his climb to the top, the New York Times pronounced him the leader of “one of the best bands in America,” and USA Today called him a “Zydeco trailblazer.” Zydeco’s most popular ambassador has shared his propulsive roots music on record and on stage with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, U2, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon and the Boston Pops among many others. He played the closing ceremony of the 1996 Olympics and for both of President Clinton’s inaugurals.

Artist R. Gregory Christie traces his own Southwest Louisiana Creole roots to his mother’s family in New Roads where still returns to see his aunts, uncles and cousins. For over two decades, he’s been pushing brilliant hues into warmly expressive frontiers. His overt influences were Romare Bearden, Picasso and Jacob Lawrence, but his folk-inspired synthesis makes his shrewdly structured, intellectually fresh pieces accessible and compelling.

Christie grew up in a house with a jazz soundtrack and has crafted covers for multiple jazz albums including “John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings.” From 1996-2009, he was a New Yorker magazine illustrator. The most recent of his 44 books are “When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat” (Chronicle) and “Jazz Baby” (Harcourt). Christie is a four-time recipient of Coretta Scott King Honor Awards in Illustration and writing. His most recent museum shows are at the Appleton Museum in Ocala, Florida and the Art institute of Chicago.

Friday, January 18, 2013

2013 Jazz Fest list of performers

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a.k.a Jazz Fest, announced the list of artists. Headliners Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel and Dave Matthews Band, The Black Keys, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Little Big Town and Patti Smith join hundreds of other musicians at the New Orleans’ Fairgrounds Racecourse April 26-28 and May 2-5.



Here's the lineup (This list is subject to change!)

Friday, November 30, 2012

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Music of Treme "Tipitina" Season Finale! Season 3 Episode 31

The music played on TREME

Tipitina (s3, e31) Season 3 finale

Written by David Simon & Anthony Bourdain
Directed by Anthony Hemingway

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Davis McAlary, Cheeky Blakk, et al — I Quit
♫ Annie T — Katrina
Nick Cave — Dig Lazarus Dig
Shamarr Allen & Paul Sanchez — Meet Me On Frenchmen Street
Coco Robicheaux — When the Nightingale Sings
Donald Harrison, Jr. — Young MJ
Walter "Wolfman" Washington — Shake Your Booty / Funky Thing Part 2
Kermit Ruffins — Holy Cow
Miles Davis — Changes
♫ Kermit — Sick & Tired
♫ Kermit — Tipitina
New Orleans Bingo Show — Lookin' for That Lucky Five
Lance Ellis — Voodoo Love
♫ Supa Dezzy — X6
Los Hombres Caliente — Estan Tocando Pt 2
Holley Bendtsen — Laissez Faire
♫ Toby — I Quit
♫ George Porter Jr, Ivan Neville, June Yamaguchi, Johnny VIdacovich — What You Want From Me
Bonerama — And I Know
Jill Sobule — When My Ship Comes In
♫ Annie T — That All You Got
♫ Annie T — Eyes Up to The Horizon
♫ Soul Apostles — Can I Change My Mind
♫ Tom McDermott — Lizinha
♫ Tom McDermott John Boutte — Let Them Talk
♫ Annie T — Katrina
♫ David Torkanowsky — Blues for Charlie B
Professor Longhair — Tipitina
♫ Batiste Jazz Band Kids — Closer Walk With Thee
Alex McMurray — You Got To Be Crazy To Live In This Town

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Music of Treme "Poor Man's Paradise" Episode 30, Season 3

The music played on TREME

Poor Man's Paradise (s3, e30)

Written by George Pelecanos & Jordan Hirsch
Directed by Roxann Dawson

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Hurricane Chris — A Bay Bay
John Boutte — Treme Song
Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter, Jr., June Yamaguchi — Is It Nature's Rock n Roll
♫ David Torkanowsky — Bywater Pocket
Jesse Moore — More Than Life Itself
♫ David Torkanowsky — Dew Drop Pocket
Detroit Brooks — On My Way Back Home
♫ David Torkanowsky — Davenport's Tippin
♫ Annie T & Her Band — This City
♫ Delmond Lambreaux et al — Open Sesame
Richmond Fontaine — Twyla
♫ Lionel Ferbos — Pretty Baby
Preservation Hall Jazz Band — Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well
T-Bone Walker — Pony Tail
Donald Harrison — Eddie Palmieri
♫ Annie T & Her Band — Poor Man's Paradise
♫ Davis McAlary — Quit
♫ Pinettes et al — This Little Light of Mine
Mahalia Jackson — Didn't It Rain

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Music of Treme "Promised Land" Episode 28, Season 3

The music played on TREME

Promised Land (s3, e28)


Written by David Simon & Chris Rose
Directed by Tim Robbins

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Aaron Neville — Wrong Number
♫ David Torkanowsky — Zydeco Theme
John Boutte — Treme Song
♫ Lars Edegran Jazz Quartet — The Stripper
♫ Elie Marching Band — Isn't She Lovely
♫ Paul Sanchez — Helpful Hurricane Hints From Hell
Sonny Rollins — Silk n Satin
♫ Goatwhore — Diabolical Submergence of ReBirth
♫ Elie Marching Band — On Broadway
♫ Tuba Skinny Scottie Swears — Six Feet Down
Marine Corp Marching Band — Marines Hymn
♫ Marine Corp Marching Band — Do Whatcha Wanna
♫ Tuba Skinny — Broken Hearted Blues
♫ Jennifer — Now's The Time
♫ Paul Sanchez — Helpful Hurricane Hints From Hell
♫ The Ramblers — Promised Land
♫ Davidge / Del Naja — Trouble Water
♫ The Ramblers — This City
The Neville Brothers — Hey Pocky Way
The Neville Brothers — Louisiana 1927
Free Agents Brass Band — We Made It Through The Water
Dukes of Dixieland — When The Saints Go Marching In
The Meters — They All Ask'd For You
Morning 40 Federation — White Powder
♫ Skull and Bone Gang — drums and chant
Professor Longhair — Go To The Mardi Gras
♫ Guardians of The Flame — Indian Red
Rebirth Brass Band — Kidd Jordan's Second Line
♫ Krewe of St. Anne — Down By The Riverside
♫ Guardians of The Flame — Hoo Na Nay
♫ David Torkanowsky — Zydeco Fats
♫ Valparaiso Men's Chorus — Drunken Sailor
Wild Magnolias — Hell Out The Way

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Music of Treme "Careless Love" Episode 27, Season 3

The music played on TREME
Careless Love (s3, e27)


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John Boutte Treme Song
Beausoleil Flames D'Enfer
♫ Annie T & Bayou Cadillac Morning Blues
♫ Guitar Lightnin' Lee Missing Mama
Fats Domino / Davell Crawford Blueberry Hill
Dr Michael White / Hot 8 Brass Band
♫ CC Adcock Stripper Boogie
♫ CC Adcock Harmonica Stomp
Dr Michael White / Hot 8 Brass Band    Dark Sunshine
Dr Michael White / Hot 8 Brass Band Shake it and Break it
♫ Hidalgo Deep in the heart of Texas
♫ CC Adcock Slangshotz n'boom-r-angz
♫ Irma Thomas New Ninth Ward
♫ Guardians of the Flame Let's Go Get'Em
Eyehategod Jackass in the will of god
Aaron Neville Hercules
Irma Thomas Anyone Who Knows

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Music of Treme "I thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say" Episode 26, Season 3

The music played on TREME
I thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say (s3, e26)

Written by Eric Overmyer
Directed by Alex Hall



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Cupid — Cupid Shuffle
♫ Scottie Swears — Shanghai Rooster
Vivaldi — The Four Seasons
♫ Sess 4-5 — No Surrender, No Retreat
Dexter Gordon — The Christmas Song
Preservation Hall Band — That Bucket's Got A Hole In It
♫ Philip Manuel — This Time of Year
♫ Joe Krown & Annie — Oh My Charmer Spare Me
Joe Krown & Annie — All That And Then Some
♫ Sharon Martin — Use What You Got
New Birth Brass Band — Jingle Bells
Ellis Marsalis — God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
♫ Annie T & Bayou Cadillac — Katrina
Johnny Sketch — Everybody Got Trouble
Sonny Landreth — Congo Square
Ellis Marsalis — Swinging at the Haven
Tom McDermott / Connie Jones — Kermit's Rag
♫ David Torkanowsky — Andante Harmon Blues
Dr John — I thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Music of Treme "The Greatest Love" Episode 25, Season 3

The music played on TREME
The Greatest Love (s3, e25)

Written by David Simon
Directed by Ernest Dickerson


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♫ Batiste marching band — Papa was a Rolling Stone
Lloyd Price — I wish your picture was you
Fats Domino — The Fat Man
Miles Davis — Walkin'
♫ Delmond Lambreaux — Big Chief Got A Golden Crown
♫ Shannon Powell — You Are My Sunshine
Dizzy — Myspace Works Ya Elbows
Fredy Omar Con Su Banda — La Vampirita
♫ Freddy Omar — Mas Sexy Cada Segundo
Brenton Wood — Oogum Boogum
Tom McDermott — Eva
♫ David Torkanowsky — When The Saints Go Marching In
♫ Sugar Boy / Davell Crawford — In My Home
Annie / Marcia Ball — Where Do You Go
Marcia Ball — That's Enough of that Stuff
♫ David Torkanowsky — When The Saints Go Marching In (Brass version)
♫ Guardians of the Flame — Two way pocky way
Alejandro Escovedo — Looking for love
Ricky B — Y'all Holla
♫ Batiste marching band — Oye Como Va
Lee Dorsey — The Greatest Love
Sugarboy Crawford — Jock-a-mo

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Monday, October 08, 2012

Music of Treme "Me Donkey Want Water" Episode 24, Season 3

The music played on TREME
Me Donkey Want Water (s3, e24)

Written by George Pelecans
Directed by Adam Davidson


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♫ Ernie Vincent Band Dap Walk
Willie Tee Teasin You
♫ Los Buitres De Culiacan Sinaloa Llamame Escribeme
♫ Al Carnival Time Johnson Mathilda
♫ Tom McDermott Li'l Liza Jane
Voice of the Wetlands We Make A Good Gumbo
Dr Michael White The Truth of the Blues
Nicholas Payton Li'l Duke's Strut
Irvin Mayfield Fatimah
♫ James Andrews James 12
Dave Bartholomew Good News
♫ El Chapo de Sinaloa Si Te Agarran Las Ganas
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Lonesome Road
Voice of the Wetlands Me Donkey Want Water
Sonny Rollins St. Thomas
♫ Shannon Powel SP
Allen Toussaint Victims of the Darkness
♫ Guitar Lightnin Lee Good Lover
Eric Lindell Uncle John
John Mooney Sacred Ground
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Music of Treme "Saints" Episode 23, Season 3

The music played on TREME
Saints (s3, e23)

Written by Eric Overmyer

Directed by Jim McKay

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John Boutte Treme Song
♫ Annie & her band That All You Got?
♫ Batiste Kids Band Basin Street Blues
John Boutte Milton
Ricky B Yall Holla
♫ Annie & her band Made in the Shade
Ben Webster Chelsea Bridge
Quintron & Miss Pussycat Waterfall
Papa Celestin Marie Laveau
Pixies Where is my Mind
Spencer Bohren Long Black Line
Spencer Bohren Born in a Biscayne
Johnny Adams Reconsider Me
T-Pain Tipsy
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing
Delfeayo Marsalis Lone Warrior
Delfeayo Marsalis Brer Rabbit
Benny More con Perz Prado Mambo Ete
♫ Meschiya Lake Do for Myself
♫ Guitar Lightnin Lee Going to Amsterdam
Little Freddie King Chicken dance
♫ Wardell Quezergue Pass It On
♫ Guardians of the Flame Indian Red
Shawn Colvin John Leventhal The Neon Light of the Saints

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Music of Treme "Knock with me - Rock with me" Episode 22, Season 3 premiere



The music played on TREME
Knock with me - Rock with me (s3, e22)
Story by David Simon & Anthony Bourdain
Directed by Anthony Hemingway

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♫ Glenn David Andrews, Derrick Tabb, et al I'll Fly Away
♫ John Boutte Treme Song
♫ Annie & band That All You Got?
♫ The Stooges 1969
♫ Delmond Lambreaux / Donald Harrison Hu Ta Nay
♫ Scottie Swears, Alynda Lee Here It Come
♫ Scottie Swears, Alynda Lee Blue Yodel No. 9
♫ Ernie K-Doe I Cried My Last Tear
♫ Glen David Andrews w/Lil Rascals Brass Band Who Dat Who Called Da Police
♫ Los Cubanos Postizos Esclavo Triste
♫ Glen David Andrews w/Lil Rascals Brass Band Knock With Me, Rock With Me
♫ Davis Mcalary Hurricane
♫ John Fohl High and Lonesome Clouds
♫ Benny Spellman Lipstick Traces
♫ Delmond Lambreaux / Donald Harrison Guardians Coming Through
♫ Charmaine Neville Lights
♫ Bob French Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
♫ Sonic Youth Incinerate
♫ Glenn David Andrews, Derrick Tabb, et al Just a Little While To Stay Here
♫ Anders Osborne Letters from Rome

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sneak Peek: Exclusive Preview from HBO’s Treme, Season Three (video)

At the outset of Season 3 of the HBO series Treme Antoine Batiste is rushing to attend a second line in memory of New Birth Brass Band tuba player Kerwin James in 2007, a little more than two years after Katrina. He arrives in the Treme neighborhood to find Glen David Andrews leading a vast array of brass band musicians in the funeral march standard “I’ll Fly Away” when police cars surround the celebrants and tell them to disperse. It’s a chilling moment in New Orleans history that actually occurred. The police tell Andrews that there are noise complaints, and he immediately lowers his trombone and continues singing “I’ll Fly Away,” getting right in the cop’s face. His anger and defiance is real beyond anything an actor can produce. It’s the look of a man fighting to defend his family and friends against a final insult so total as to nullify his very existence, something beyond even death. Finally Andrews is dragged off by the cops and the scene ends. [via OffBeat]

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

2013 Jazz Fest-Negotiated Hotel Rates

The Jazz Fest web site now lists the official negotiated rates for many New Orleans hotels. As usual, there aren't many huge bargains.

Some of the rates are listed as "Early Bird" rates, valid only if you book by Sep 15, 2012.

Source: Jazz Fest Swagland

Friday, August 10, 2012

Treme ® Season 3, premiering Sunday, September 23

Treme returns to HBO on September 23
"This town, you can't make it up." Watch a preview for Treme® Season 3, premiering Sunday, September 23 at 10PM, only on HBO®.: