Family and the New Orleans community honored jazz violinist Michael Ward as he lay in state at Gallier Hall. Opinion: The ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious enough, they're likely to run into some of these next-generation, hugely ...

The City of New Orleans, obviously, holds a mythical status in the world of jazz. The genre (or at least the form with which ...

The Musicians' Village was created after Hurricane Katrina to protect the music culture of New Orleans. We pay a visit to see how it's doing and what its future plans are. Many musicians also had to ...

Beignets aren’t the only thing to be excited about in the Big Easy next spring. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival just announced their 2026 lineup and, per usual, they’re bringing in some truly ...

Stellar Wood, the swamp-sultry vocalist for the Pensacola-based band Whiskey & Water, grew up in New Orleans, and said the environment from that famed musical melting pot definitely influenced the ...

FEST ERS OUT THERE. THE 2026 LINEUP IS OUT AND IT’S A GOOD ONE. I THINK IT’S REALLY GOOD. WE’VE GOT THE EAGLES STEVIE NICKS, ROD STEWART, KINGS OF LEON, LAINEY WILSON, TEDDY SWIMS. THAT’S JUST THE ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market, a non-profit organization on a mission to bring the most talented, accomplished and passionate jazz and blues musicians to the stage, announced today that it will ...

If your Christmas wish list included the music lineup for the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, you're in luck. UPDATE: The lineup is out. See it here. Producers of the festival revealed on ...

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. IT’S OFFICIALLY TIME FOR JAZZ FEST. ONE OF THE CITY’S BIGGEST CELEBRATIONS. JAZZ FEST IS KIND OF LIKE THAT MAGIC POTION TO MAKE YOU LOVE NEW ORLEANS ALL OVER AGAIN. IT’S ...

Mirroring many other parts of New Orleans in 2025, the city’s music community this year had a lot to celebrate, faced new ...

Many musicians also had to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, so there was a fear that the city's musical culture could be lost. Then two prominent jazz musicians got together and created a ...