Weekly Beat: Prospect.3 Kicks Off, Christian Scott Returns to Frenchmen, Trumpet Mafia Makes its Debut, and more!

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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 41 OCTOBER 9, 2014 VOLUME 12, NUMBER 42 OCTOBER 23, 2014 New Orleans and Louisiana's Music and Culture Newsletter In This Issue P.3, NOTES FOR NOW MOJO MOUTH THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY... NEWS YOU CAN USE LOUISIANA MUSIC ON TOUR NEW ALBUMS MUSICAL HISTORY LESSON & VIDEO ADVERTISE  SUBSCRIBE   concerts  restaurants weekly poll: DO political aDs really influence your vote? click below! Our Sponsors PROSPECT.3 KICKS OFF THIS WEEKEND PROSPECT.3 KICKS OFF ACROSS NEW ORLEANS Prospect.3, the third city-wide art biannual, kicks off this weekend with a variety of events. Be sure to check out all of the Prospect.3 installations across the city.   OFFBEAT.COM AT A GLANCE TRUMPET MAFIA DEBUTS AT JAZZ AT THE RAT Photo by Stephen Maloney Having evolved from a series if Frenchmen Street practice sessions, Trumpet Mafia is set to shake up the way you hear jazz and hip-hop, starting with a show tonight for Tulane's Jazz at the Rat series.    MORE @ A GLANCE:      Fellow Frenchmen Street musician Julian Addison is drumming up quite the reputation.  Christian Scott will return to Frenchmen with a show this weekend at Snug Harbor.  October 25 is going to be a busy day. Check out our picks for that day. PHOTO GALLERY:   Check out the 11th annual Voice of the Wetlands Festival, and the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival.  MOJO MOUTH: A BLOG Jan Ramsey, OffBeat Publisher and  Editor-In-Chief WHAT'S WORTH PRESERVING?   Surprise, surprise. A balcony on a building on Royal Street partially collapsed yesterday, and more damage happened today when the building continued to deteriorate. City agencies like the Vieux Carre Commission and Historic Distrcit Landmarks Commission are only interested in the facades. How about the actual buildings themselves? Why aren't they paying attention to that? I don't know about you, but the political campaign ads are starting to wear me down. How much do they influence your vote?  LAST WEEK'S POLL Do we need more blues-friendly clubs in New Orleans No, there's enough blues acts offered at clubs around town on a regular basis..........32% Yes, I'd go out to hear more blues music  if it were regularly offered in a  New Orleans club..............................................68% CELEBRATE! THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY... Happy Birthday composer and saxophonist Harold Battiste (photo by Greg Miles) OCTOBER 23 CAROL FRAN: Vocalist, Lafayette, 1933. BARBARA ANN HAWKINS: Vocalist, New Orleans, 1943.   OCTOBER 24 BETTYE SWANN: Vocalist, Shreveport, 1944. BANU GIBSON: Vocalist, Dayton, 1947.   OCTOBER 25 ROSIE LEDET: Accordionist, Church Point, 1971.  OCTOBER 26 ERIC LINDELL: Singer songwriter and guitarist, San Mateo, 1959.   OCTOBER 27 SHERMAN ROBERTSON: Guitarist and vocalist, Breaux Bridge, 1948. SCOTT BILLINGTON: Singer songwriter and producer, Melrose, 1951. WENDELL BRUNIOUS: Trumpeter, singer songwriter, New Orleans, 1954. KATJA TOIVOLA: Trombonist, Helsinki, 1975   OCTOBER 28 HAROLD BATTISTE: Composer and saxophonist, New Orleans, 1931. KENT JORDAN: Flautist, New Orleans, 1958. FRANK OCEAN: Singer songwriter, New Orleans, 1987.   OCTOBER 29 WAYNE FORET: Singer songwriter, Westwego, 1948.   For a complete list of Louisiana birthdays, click here. If you're a Louisiana musician, send us your birthday (month-day-year) so we can wish you a good one!   Louisiana musicians, bands and music businesses:  If you haven't updated your FREE listings in the Louisiana Music Directory, do it NOW! Listings in the LMD database are used for voting in Best of The Beat beginning in December!  You must be listed in the LMD to vote.   Make sure your Louisiana musician friends and business are included!   NEWS YOU CAN USE LIONEL FERBOS REMEMBERED Photo by Golden G. Richard, III The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra is planning a Lionel Ferbos tribute at Trinity Episcopal Church on November 9.  MORE NEWS:   Did you see the first episode of Sonic Highways? Are you excited for the New Orleans episode? The ReFresh Project won a prestigious Green Garden award.  Get ready for the Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. Check out these spooky Louisiana Halloween songs.  OFFBEAT CONCERT PICKS Mike Watt with il sogno del marinaio plays One Eyed Jacks on Sunday, October 26 at 10 p.m.   OFFBEAT DAILY PICKS OF THE WEEK Thursday 23: Jazz in the Park featuring  Los Hombres Calientes and Stephanie Jordan at Armstrong Park Friday 24: Of Montreal at Howlin' Wolf Saturday 25:   Christian Scott Quintet at Snug Harbor Sunday 26: Jesse Boyd Trio at Snug Harbor Monday 27: Luke Winslow King / Glen David Andrews at d.b.a. Tuesday 28: Ed Petersen presents a Tribute to Queen at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse Wednesday 29: Jorge Pacheco from Cuba at the Sandbar Check out all of OffBeat's   CONCERT PICKS OF THE WEEK     View OffBeat's COMPLETE CONCERT CALENDAR Thanks for reading this issue of the Weekly Beat.   Please forward it to a friend who loves New Orleans music and culture!  OffBeat loves your input and feedback. Please email comments to us at: WeeklyBeat@OffBeat.com, and please include your email as we may need your permission to publish your kudos, comments and criticisms. SUBSCRIBE TO HELP KEEP OFFBEAT  ALIVE AND  KICKIN'!  NEW SUBSCRIBERS GET A SPECIAL GIFT! stay connected OCTOber offbeat features THE USUAL SUSPECTS The oldest band in New Orleans? "We're the oldest new band you've ever heard," says guitarist Jake Eckert of his band the New Orleans Suspects. Eckert and all the other members of the band are immersed in New Orleans music. According to OffBeat's writer Brett Milano, they "may well be the last New Orleans band with a direct personnel connection to Professor Longhair and Earl King..." This month, our cover features Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars, who just headlined the Festivals Acadies in Lafayette. Read an insightful BackTalk is with reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, Bobby Rush and our picks for Halloween (there are lots). Plus lots more! SUBSCRIBE ENJOY  NEW ORLEANS  ALL YEAR LONG If you can't find a copy of OffBeat at your nearest location, get in touch with us to get OffBeat distributed free in New Orleans in a rack near you. Please help us support OffBeat's great writers and photographers by subscribing to OffBeat now!  New subscribers get a special gift! EXCLUSIVE TO OFFBEAT! VIDEOS OffBeat Magazine has its own YouTube channel as we continue to document and record live music,  fascinating interviews, and cultural happenings throughout New Orleans and Louisiana.  Magazine Street favorite McClure's Barbecue recently opened a new location in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and we checked it out in this new video. McClure's Barbecue in Missisippi Access offbeat's podcast  archive Via OffBeat.com here oUR pODCASTS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON ItUNES louisiana music on tour Get the  definitive list of Louisiana musicians performing outside New Orleans.    Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen will be in Japan with performances on Monday at Shibuya Ax in Tokyo and Tuesday at Blue Note in Nagoya.   new louisiana music recordings Get the latest info on new CDs and recordings from New Orleans and Louisiana musicians. Carlo Ditta: What I'm Talkin' About (Orleans Records) MUSICAL HISTORY LESSON Find out more about the  rich history  of New Orleans and Louisiana's musical heritage in OffBeat's 27-year-deep archive. SEVEN YEARS AGO IN OFFBEAT... George Porter Jr., the "base" of the Meters, the funky Meters, his Running Pardners and so many more bands, is profiled in our December 2007 issue. George Porter Jr. bass solo COLLECTIBLES   A TREASURY OF  NEW ORLEANS' MUSICAL HISTORY   Get a treasure trove of hand-selected archival OffBeat issues PLUS mystery lagniappe collectibles in every box by ordering our  "Pot Luck" special HERE. 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