| | | FRENCH QUARTER FEST HITS BIG TIME |
 | | Kermit Ruffins graces one of French Quarter Festival 2013's three posters. |
CHEVRON JOINS FRENCH QUARTER FEST AS TITLE SPONSOR
2013 marks French Quarter Fest's 30th anniversary, a precious feat for the event many consider"the official kick-off of festival season" in New Orleans. Here, FQFI Executive Director Marci Schramm and Chevron Gulf Coast Vice President Warner Williams tell exactly what this new, multi-year sponsorship entails.
Also unveiled at this morning's press conference were the April 11-14 festival's three official posters as well as its lineup!
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| OFFBEAT.COM AT A GLANCE |  | | Quintron & Miss Pussycat have something special up their sleeves for you March 1. |
Blurring the lines between the Wu-Tang sword style and avant-garde jazz D.C.'s Shaolin Jazz returns Friday at RFRSH with its 37th Chamber Listening Party & Art Installation. FREE with RSVP!
Quintron & Miss Pussycat present the premiere of their new film, The Mystery In Old Bloodbath Saturday at the Prytania Theater.
NOLA GIRL JAM 2013 celebrates women in jazz history at the Old U.S. Mint Jazz Theatre from March 1 - 3 with a Roaring-20s-themed music & dance mini-fest. |
| offbeat show picks |  | | The Contemporary Arts Center is celebrating the compositions that trumpeter and poet Hannibal Lokumbe produced during his past residencies at the CAC with two unique performances on Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. |
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| Click here for OffBeat's complete concert calendar. |
| news you can use |  | | Derek Dupuy talks the New Movement Theater's One-Year |
NOLA Comedy Scene Gets New Movement
The New Movement Theater celebrates its one-year anniversary this weekend with a three-day mini-fest of live comedy. The fest starts TONIGHT and includes a free block party on Saturday night with open mic, music and more. Shows range from free to $10. See full story for event schedule.
"We love improv. We love comedy," Co-Founder, Derek Dupuy, explains. "We love the idea that you don't have to move from here to make it big in comedy. That is a big part of what we want for this city."
Derek Dupuy talks to OffBeat this week. Read the full story here.
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| mojo mouth |  | | OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey |
As opinionated as ever, Publisher Jan Ramsey "mouths off"about music and current events in New Orleans and thereabouts.
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Michael Doucet
As the leader of BeauSoleil, Cajun musician Michael Doucet has spent the better part of four decades bringing the lively chank-a-chank rhythms and fervent melodies of southern Louisiana to audiences across the globe. The band's latest album From Bamako to Carencro explores the form's roots unlike any before it, tracing the African influence on Cajun music from Mali's capital city to the Caribbean Isles to rural Louisiana. In this episode of OffBeat's Look-Ka Py Py Podcast, Doucet talks about the inspiration behind the project, his passion for Cajun music, his love of James Brown's and his current tour with the Turtle Island Quintet. |
Bobby Rush
At age 77, Homer, Louisiana native Bobby Rush's focus has shifted away from funk and finesse to the raw, bare-bones blues of his youth. On Rush's latest release Down in Louisiana, he puts aside his slick and sassy trademarks in favor of his guitar and harmonica. For Rush those roots grew out of his county home and grew strong in the "chitlin' circuit," a string of roadside taverns and honky-tonks where, during the Jim Crow era, musicians such as he and Buddy Guy and Bobby "Blue" Bland found their voice, learning the ropes and singing the blues with legends such as Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. For the rest of Rush's tale... |
Get the definitive list of where Louisiana musicians are performing in your area (outside New Orleans).
Nicholas Payton XXX featuring Lenny White and Vincente Archer will celebrate the release of his new recording #BAM Live at Bohemian Caverns at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. According to New York magazine, "the Iridium does its best to recreate the halcyon days of the 1920s and 1930s."
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| new louisiana music recordings |
 | | BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet: From Bamako to Carencro (Compass Records) |
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