Preview // Community Records Block Party DVD Premiere
The 4th annual Community Records Block Party, held earlier this year in April, was a distinct – if humble – success for the young, ambitious, hard-boiled New Orleans DIY label. Expanding on previous years’ hallmarks of conscientious bohemian family fun anchored by their own stable of punk, ska and hardcore bands, 2011 saw larger crowd [...]
Preview // 2011 Oak Street Po-Boy Festival: 11.20.2011
Back for it’s fifth edition, this time under a slightly abbreviated name, The Oak Street Po-Boy Festival takes over the most bustling street in the Riverbend neighborhood this weekend. What started in 2007 as the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival with a small stretch of vendors and a handful of local music acts has grown [...]
Preview // 2011 Gentilly Fest: 10.01.2011 – 10.02.2011
This weekend, the community-organized Gentilly Fest returns for a fourth year of ambitiously tackling the myriad problems facing the historic New Orleans Neighborhood in the wake of not only Katrina, but also the more broad economic decline that has hit the Gentilly area particularly hard. The Gentilly Fest began three years ago as a way [...]
Preview // LAfestival: 09.24.2011
The Waterkeeper Alliance is an international, grassroots coalition of local watchdog groups that protect the health and sustainability of over 200 of the most important waterways in the world . The local chapter, the Atchafayala Basinkeepers, is charged with looking after the largest swampland in the United States, the delicate 135-mile long distributary that leads [...]
Preview // Ponderosa Stomp Music Conference: 09.15.2011 – 09.17.2011
Back for its tenth year of not only celebrating the the rich history of American roots music but also bringing it’s progenitors back to the stage, The Ponderosa Stomp Music Conference returns to New Orleans for a weekend of performances, exhibits, and outreach programs. In its first nine years, the event has expanded to include [...]
Preview // 2011 Satchmo Summerfest: 08.06.2011 – 08.07.2011
Alright, folks. Now is the time in Festival Season: Local Edition® that you really earn your stripes. If you thought it was hot during Oysterfest, you better start hydrating now for one of the final entrants in the nearly perpetual calendar of weekend-long musical celebrations. Back for it’s 11th year, Satchmo Summerfest is three days [...]
Preview // 2011 Creepy Fest: 07.14.2011 – 07.17.2011
At an unbearably hot and humid time of the year when most people think New Orleans Festival Season (NOFS™) is cold dead, the beneficiaries of this city’s deep and storied history of ultra-heavy music know that this is as frenzied as it gets. For the past two years, Creepy Fest has been the perfect chance [...]
Preview // New Orleans Oyster Festival: 06.04.2011 – 06.05.2011
The Deepwater Horizon Offshore Drilling platform exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico just a month and a half before the gates opened for last year’s inaugural New Orleans Oyster Festival. Although the proceeds from the event benefited those coastal communities affected, the Oyster Festival was not, as many believe, launched in direct response [...]
Preview // 2011 Community Records Block Party
After much anticipation, the de facto centerpiece of festival season is finally upon the city of New Orleans. After a massive first act that included Foburg Fest, French Quarter Fest, and Austin’s South by Southwest Festival, the third annual Community Records Block Party is, seemingly by design, the punk rock primer for the laid back, [...]
