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New Orleans has long been known as the “City That Care Forgot,” but I think it might be renamed “The City That Doesn’t Care” when it comes to its musical history. Having published several features over years regarding the deterioration of New Orleans musically-significant properties, I was dismayed and disappointed to read in today’s newspaper
over 1 year ago
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Radio station WWOZ is negotiating to sign a long-term lease for a new home to be located on the entire fifth floor of The Shops at Jax Brewery, a prime location at 600 Decatur Street overlooking the French Quarter and Mississippi River. As readers of OffBeat know, WWOZ has been looking for a new permanent
over 1 year ago
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Live music—the bedrock of New Orleans’ reputation as a music city—is in danger of collapsing. This is kind of a complex issue, so bear with me. OffBeat has always been focused on live music. Without live music, New Orleans would not be the music mecca it is. Live music is the fist thing that groups
about 1 year ago
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Billboard has once again named Loyola as one of the top music business schools in the world, taking its place among some of the finest collegiate music programs for the third year running. Billboard named Loyola to its annual list of Top Music Business schools for 2023 in its October 7 issue. The school is
about 1 year ago
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The music club and bar—d.b.a. New Orleans, located at 618 Frenchmen—has been sold after 23 years by owner Tom Thayer to a local group of Frenchmen Street venue operators: Sophie Lee Lowry (musician and owner of Three Muses); and Cheryl Abaña, Bradley Clement and Doug Emmer (The Spotted Cat). Lowry and Thayer are renowned in
12 months ago
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OffBeat’s 2023 Best of The Beat Music Awards took place on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at Tipitina’s. The Best of The Beat Awards™ is a program of the OffBeat Music & Cultural Arts Foundation and was presented by the Gia Maione Prima Foundation and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, with support from OffBeat
9 months ago
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An important conference is coming to New Orleans on June 3-5: the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) will be held in New Orleans for the first time from June 3 – 5. NIVA is a relatively new organization, formed in response to the devastation in live music that occurred beginning with pandemic in March 2020.
5 months ago
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Musicians can make ends meet by supplementing their income in a way they may never have considered: being a tour guide.
5 months ago
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Is Live Music Going To Survive Technology? With the growing market for virtual reality is live music goingto survive?
3 months ago
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Luther Kent, who was a part of the New Orleans music community for over 60 years, has passed away as a result of heart failure.
2 months ago
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Results of the recent New Orleans Music Census Report released, along with possible opportunities for the music community.
2 months ago