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2025 Jazz Fest Bible
The legendary, collectible Jazz Fest Bible. OffBeat Magazine's yearly comprehensive guide to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, printed since 1988.
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Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen
The moment was triumphant—Mick Jagger inviting Irma Thomas onstage with the Rolling Stones last April at Jazz Fest and then joining her to sing the song they once recorded separate versions of in 1964...
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Jazz Fest A to Z
This guide should help in choosing from the panoply of cultures, rhythms and sounds available at Jazz Fest to ensure your experience hits all the right marks. It’s arranged alphabetically by band name so you can search when your favorite act is playing...
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Jon Cleary
The night Jon Cleary arrived in New Orleans as a teenager, he assumed that he was taking his first steps on American soil—at the Maple Leaf with Earl King on stage. He hadn’t really landed in the United States exactly...
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Lila Downs Talks Back
Lila Downs, one of Mexico’s most vibrant musical stars for a few decades now and a global ambassador of the nation’s culture, sits in a house in the capital Mexico City, about 250 miles northwest from her home in Oaxaca...
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Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars: Winning Over A Crowd
If NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest handed out medals like at the Olympics, Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars would have taken home the silver as runner-up in 2024. Since then, the former underground seven-piece band led by singer and songwriter Sal Geloso has taken off...
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Calypso Head: Charlie and the Tropicales
Trombonist Charlie Halloran is best known around town as a first-call traditional jazz musician. But that may change as more and more fans are flocking to performances by his pan-Caribbean band, Charlie and the Tropicales...
Mary Gauthier Returns to New Orleans January 14
Grammy-nominated songwriter Mary Gauthier will perform in New Orleans on January 14 at Chickie Wah Wah. A Thibodeaux native, Gauthier has built a career as a songwriter and author whose […]
The New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival will welcome 2026 with its Twelfth Annual New Year’s Eve Masquerade and Benefit Ball, taking place Wednesday, December 31, 2025, beginning at 8:00 p.m. […]
Who You Schmooze Shouldn’t Cut It Anymore
I’m sick of the New Orleans Way of doing things. Who you schmooze shouldn’t cut it anymore. Who you know shouldn’t give you an inside track, even if you are […]
Where You Can See Live Music in New Orleans and Louisiana
Live music in New Orleans from OffBeat Magazine: your source for New Orleans and statewide live music listings.
Tarriona “Tank” Ball | Fridays Off… Beat
New Orleans’ favorite poet and performer Tarriona “Tank” Ball looks back on another eventful year fronting the explosive band Tank and the Bangas, with a trilogy album release and a […]
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