Crescent City Blues & BBQ
The festival starts in a couple of days! Take a spin over to Lafayette Square and join Buddy Guy (pictured), Bobby Rush, Irma Thomas, Sonny Landreth, T-Model Ford, Luther Kent
and many others in what promises to be a great weekend. For the complete performance schedule, plus details on parking, food and craft vendors, see the official event web site. And for you Saints fans who don't have tickets to the game at the Superdome, we'll have TVs to catch the action on Sunday. Did we mention that it's free?
Richie Havens Concert Friday
Folk legend Richie Havens performs this Friday, Oct. 16, at the Howlin' Wolf (map) in a benefit concert for the Don Jamison Heritage School of Music. Also on the bill are singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez and jazz trumpeter/Heritage School alum Shamarr Allen
, plus the students from both campuses of the Heritage School. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online here.
Tom Dent Congo Square on Blues Lecture Monday
On Monday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., Charles Keil will present as part of our Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture Series. The free event at the Jazz & Heritage Center (map) features Keil - author of the 1966 landmark "Urban Blues" - speaking on the origin and various meanings throughout history of the term blues and its current cultural relevance.
Fans of the Fest Specials
Laura Valliant from right here in Gretna, LA, was the winner of our special Fans of the Fest contest to get a free night at a plush downtown hotel for the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival. The contest was open only to Fans of the Fest
members. As a consolation to those who didn't win, we're opening our VIP hospitality area at the Blues Fest to all current Fans of the Fest members. Just check in at the Foundation info tent at Lafayette Square to pick up your credentials. If your membership has lapsed, renew online here
before Friday so you can enjoy the VIP treatment. Not sure? E-mail us here and find out. A very special thanks to all our Fans of the Fest memboers for your generus support.
Upcoming Events
Tom Dent Congo Square Symposium
Saturday, Nov. 14
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Jazz & Heritage Center
Presenters include author Ned Sublette, Yale scholar Robert Farris Thompson, Alex LaSalle of Alma Moyo, Freddi Evans, Connie Zena Atkinson, Luther Gray and Herreast Harrison.
Admission: Free
The third annual Congo Square Rhythms Festival
Sunday, Nov. 15
11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans
Performers include Ensemble Fatien, Bamboula 2000, the Kumbuka African Dance Company, Moyuba, Tekrema Dance Theater and many more.
Free admission
Event web site: jazzandheritage.org/congo-square
The third annual Fiesta Latina
Saturday, Nov. 21
11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, LA 70003
Performers include Los Hermanos Rosario, Grupo Fantasma, Rumba Buena, Fredy Omar, Otra and many others.
Free admission; $5 parking
Event web site: jazzandheritage.org/fiesta-latina
The second annual Treme Creole Gumbo Festival
Saturday, Dec. 12, and Sunday, Dec. 13
10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (both days)
The Jazz & Heritage Center
Performers include Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, James Andrews, Glen David Andrews and others.
Free admission
Event web site: jazzandheritage.org/treme-gumbo
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