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2013/05/23 04:49
2013/05/23 04:49
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Tamara Jackson from Silence Is Violence and Mary von Kurnatowski from the Tipitina's Foundation appeared on the WWL Eyewitness Morning News today to talk about the May 23 concert at Tip's for The 19...
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2013/05/22 00:10
2013/05/22 00:10
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As New Orleanians try to cope with the violence that disrupted a Mother’s Day second line parade, local nonprofits are raising money to help victims of the shooting. Clancy DuBos / Eyewitness...
2013/05/20 22:49
2013/05/20 22:49
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In response to the shooting at the Mothers' Day second line, Gambit's Foundation for Entertainment, Development and Education, the Tipitina's Foundation, United Way of Southeast Louisiana and Silence...
2013/05/20 00:14
2013/05/20 00:14
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... Reuters/David Rae Morris)Toots and the Maytals performs on the Congo Square Stage at the 36th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, April 30, 2005. A bottle has hit a singer during a...
2013/05/16 22:49
2013/05/16 22:49
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Gambit’s Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education, Tipitina’s Foundation, United Way of Southeast Louisiana and Silence Is Violence have joined forces to host a special benefit concert...
2013/05/14 05:42
2013/05/14 05:42
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In 1939, Hattie McDaniel became the first black actress to win an Academy Award for her supporting role as Mammy, a maid to the Southern Belle Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. Since then, four...
2013/05/14 03:19
2013/05/14 03:19
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NEW ORLEANS — Of the 19 people sent to local hospitals Sunday afternoon with gunshot wounds from a Mother’s Day march for a black parading club, most had gone home Monday, including a boy and a girl,...
2013/05/13 21:49
2013/05/13 21:49
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Count Basin™ weathered all the highs and lows of an exciting New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. There was everything from Fleetwood Mac's two hour and 20 minute set on the Acura stage to Canadian...
2013/05/10 22:26
2013/05/10 22:26
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A former Chicago bartender and his fitness instructor wife — Will and Monifa Sims — have gone semi-viral, with tens of thousands of Web hits and counting, after exuberantly channeling Jon Bon Jovi and...
2013/05/07 17:11
2013/05/07 17:11
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Students from a New Orleans high school and Lakeshore Catholic High School came together in an impromptu jam session after the Port Colborne school finished a performance in late April. "We had great...
2013/05/06 23:42
2013/05/06 23:42
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The Jazz Fest crowd anticipates 2013 headliners Fleetwood Mac. In the midst of two weekends that included dancing in the rain to The Dave Matthews Band, holding posters for New Orleans’ songbird...
2013/05/05 01:49
2013/05/05 01:49
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With clear skies and cool temperatures, a stellar lineup drew big crowds to Jazz Fest Saturday. Some of the muddy spots on the infield looked like sinkholes, and fans appropriated space on the track...
2013/05/04 01:39
2013/05/04 01:39
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NEW ORLEANS - Friday was a muddy, overcast, unusually cool and windy day at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. For festival-goers, boots and a light coat were a good idea. But with so much...
2013/05/04 00:11
2013/05/04 00:11
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Eric Paulsen / Eyewitness News NEW ORLEANS - Quint Davis still calls him "boss," and the love and the respect he has for George Wein is clear 44 years later as these two giants of Jazz Fest meet...
2013/05/02 09:04
2013/05/02 09:04
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CHICAGO (AP) - The headliners at this summer's Chicago Jazz Festival are drummer Jack DeJohnnette, saxophonist Charles Lloyd, pianist Jason Moran and New Orleans saxophonist Donald...
2013/05/01 15:39
2013/05/01 15:39
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THURSDAY Jam band Widespread Panic headlines the Acura Stage for the opening day of Jazz Fest’s second and final weekend. From Athens, Ga., Widespread Panic returned to the road last month following...
2013/05/01 14:14
2013/05/01 14:14
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Drummer Jack DeJohnette, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, pianists Jason Moran and Robert Glasper and saxophonists Donald Harrison, Charles Lloyd, Jimmy Heath and Rudresh Mahanthappa will headline the 35th...
2013/04/30 14:33
2013/04/30 14:33
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Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company had a very good New York morning Tuesday with three of its ensemble members scoring 2013 Tony nominations: Tracy Letts and Amy Morton for their work in Edward...
2013/04/30 07:49
2013/04/30 07:49
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Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove Eclectic, adventuresome and influential New Orleans sousaphonist Kirk Joseph was drafted into the Dirty Dozen Brass Band by his older brother at the age of 13. In 2004,...
2013/04/30 07:49
2013/04/30 07:49
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Royal Teeth Royal Teeth's live shows often end with the firing of confetti cannons, and one might say their music is the aural interpretation of bursts of colorful paper. Like fellow Lafayette...