New Orleans News

Jazz singer Maria Marquez comes to New Orleans to perform at Snug Harbor on Saturday, June 22, 2013.

Mississippi's Jimbo Mathus is featured for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's weekly 'Ogden After Hours' show on Thursday, June 20, 2013.

What if I were to tell you that on a relatively modest budget you can have a summer experience filled with the tastes and rhythms of far-off places such as New Orleans, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and all without leaving home overnight? Well, it is true.

NEW ORLEANS -- Word came down -- appropriately, as it turned out -- just as Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were sitting down to log what would become one of their countless New Orleans dining experiences.

Former New Orleans Saints special teamer Steve Gleason is pushed by his brother-in-law, Vinnie Varisco, at the Jazz Half Marathon 0n Oct. 27 in New Orleans.

The Jack Brass Band from Minneapolis will be entertaining the audience at the Chatfield "Music in the Park" series on Thursday, June 27th at 7:30 p.m. The concert will take place in the City Park Band Shell.

Comedian Sean Patton is the headlining act for Comedy Beast, the stand-up showcase hosted by local comics Andrew Polk and Cyrus Cooper, at the Howlin' Wolf Den.

Percussion, piano and guitar are featured at the most promising shows for a relatively quiet Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in New Orleans.

A renowned New Orleans band is making a final funky round of shows that will bring it to Martinsville on Wednesday.

In support of their latest CD release, On the Funky Side, Jambalaya Brass Band will be returning to march and perform at one of the most colorful events of the season in NYC, the 31st from 2-3pm.

Gone but never forgotten! In the clip below, listen to the late, great Ernie K-Doe on WWOZ, some time in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Parks, a long-time admirer enthuses: "This album: Flexibly fluent, somehow of one cloth.

With steady rain muddying New Orleans right before the city's famous Jazz & Heritage Festival in April, Evie Poitevent tweeted about rain boots at her shoe store, Feet First.

The irony is multi-layered, considering the object of Jaffe's efforts was the New Orleans landmark of traditional jazz, Preservation Hall .

An American favorite from his role in the hit TV series "House," the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmospheric special filmed on location in New Orleans.

Downtown Baton Rouge was buzzing the night of June 8 as several hundred partygoers turned out for the Capitol Park Museum's annual fundraiser.

Though it's not officially summer for another week or so, the steamy weather associated with that season in St. Louis is already here.

Just southeast of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, Va., lies a compact neighborhood called Oregon Hill.

Paulie's New Orleans Blues and Jazz Festival features authentic Louisiana Blues, Jazz, Country and so much more.

The prolific Harry Connick Jr. has more or less placed aside his usual jazz leanings for an album of all-original singer/songwriter tunes.