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2013/05/23 04:49
2013/05/23 04:49
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WWL-TV on The 19 Fund benefit concert
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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DuBos: Tragedy brings out the best in New Orleans
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...
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New Orleans
United Way
Hot 8 Brass Band
Donald Harrison Jr.
Bonerama
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2013/05/20 22:49
2013/05/20 22:49
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Preview: The 19 Fund benefit
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...
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Donald Harrison Jr.
Tipitina's Foundation
Bonerama
Hot 8 Brass Band
Fats Domino
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2013/05/20 00:14
2013/05/20 00:14
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Bottle Hits Singer: Vodka Bottle Hit Causes Lacer...
... 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...
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2013/05/16 22:49
2013/05/16 22:49
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Benefit for shooting victims May 23 at Tip’s
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...
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Mardi Gras Indians
Donald Harrison Jr.
Fats Domino
HBO
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2013/05/14 05:42
2013/05/14 05:42
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At Goodman,
Vera Stark
confronts race, Hol...
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...
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2013/05/14 03:19
2013/05/14 03:19
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New Orleans' soulful second line tradition marred...
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,...
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2013/05/13 21:49
2013/05/13 21:49
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Thrills and Chills
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...
Read more at Best of New Orleans Gambit
2013/05/10 22:26
2013/05/10 22:26
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‘Tonight Show’ karaoke duo are Congo Square Theat...
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...
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Will
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Jay Leno
Bon Jovi
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2013/05/07 17:11
2013/05/07 17:11
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Great time in the Big Easy
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...
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Catholic High School
Preservation Hall
High School
Melissa Brown
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2013/05/06 23:42
2013/05/06 23:42
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New Orleans Jazz Fest Comes Full Circle With Its ...
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...
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2013/05/05 01:49
2013/05/05 01:49
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Saturday at Jazz Fest
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...
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Fleetwood
Terence Blanchard
Magnetic
Thomas Mars
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2013/05/04 01:39
2013/05/04 01:39
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Maroon 5 draws big crowd at muddy, cool Jazz Fest
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...
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2013/05/04 00:11
2013/05/04 00:11
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Center to continue jazz heritage in honor of Jazz...
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...
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2013/05/02 09:04
2013/05/02 09:04
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Donald Harrison to headline Chicago Jazz Festival
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...
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2013/05/01 15:39
2013/05/01 15:39
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Second weekend of Jazz Fest rocks the Fair Grounds
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...
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2013/05/01 14:14
2013/05/01 14:14
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Chicago Jazz Festival 2013 lineup announced
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...
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School of Music
Bill Frisell
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2013/04/30 14:33
2013/04/30 14:33
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Chris Jones
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...
Read more at Orlando Sentinel
2013/04/30 07:49
2013/04/30 07:49
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Thursday, May 2
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,...
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2013/04/30 07:49
2013/04/30 07:49
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Friday, May 3
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...
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