Martin Shore and Ian Neville explore the music, history and living cultural legacy behind Take Me to the River: New ...

Ah, New Orleans in the summertime. Tourists evaporate as the festival season ebbs away, business slows to a crawl, the sidewalks bake and shimmer. The city turns into one listless, panting beast, ...

Long before jazz became recognized around the world, the genre's origins were taking shape in the Big Easy. Musicians blended African rhythms, blues, ragtime, brass band traditions, and Caribbean ...

The Big 4 of New Orleans Rock provide a deft representation of the city's famous gumbo-pot diversity. There's a sardonic piano-playing storyteller, a metal pioneer, a mystic swamp-rock legend and a ...

Mirroring many other parts of New Orleans in 2025, the city’s music community this year had a lot to celebrate, faced new challenges, mourned losses and used art in acts of defiance and resilience.

Much of the live music in New Orleans this weekend will be concentrated at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel on Canal Street as it hosts the 38th annual Folk Alliance International Conference, billed as ...