Happy Birthday, Dave Jordan!

Singer Songwriter and guitarist Dave Jordan was born on January 29, 1972, in Mandeville, Louisiana, and is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, roots rocker who has been a staple of he New Orleans music scene for over 20 years. Jordan was the bass player/lead singer/founder of the funk band Juice, which was part of the resurgence of New Orleans funk music. From the mid/late ’90s until the late ’00s, Juice released 3 albums and they toured relentlessly from 1999-2003, averaging over 180 dates annually. They were recipients of 2000’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Emerging Funk/Soul/R&B Band and later nominated for Best Roots Rock Band and Album. 

Jordan has recorded or performed with a host of New Orleans luminaries, including Art and Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, George Porter, Joe Krown, Johnny Vidacovich and countless more. His 2010 solo debut release, These Old Boots, co-produced by Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Anders Osborne, was named a Top 10 record of the year by the Times-Picayune. After the release of his 2013 follow up, Bring Back Red Raspberry, Jordan returned to nationwide touring, performing with his band, the NIA (Neighborhood Improvement Association). In 2017, the band was nominated in OffBeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Roots Rock Band and Album for their 2016 release, No Losers Tonight, which features 10 originals, honed and crafted from the band’s 4 years of touring. In 2019 he released Burning Sage, reviewed by Offbeat Magazine as “a great album; perhaps the best of his long career as one of New Orleans’ foremost roots-rockers.”

In addition to his involvement with the Voice of the Wetlands, promoting the awareness and education of rebuilding the LA Gulf coast, Jordan is active in various organizations in the New Orleans community, including the Team Gleason Foundation, Upturn Arts summer art program, and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. Besides being featured in their print ad campaign, Dave is the producer of Jamie’s BigAss Party, an annual event honoring the legacy and memory of his former bandmate and friend, Jamie Galloway. The block party/crawfish boil, held at the Maple Leaf Bar, has raises funds for mental health services provided by NOMC. Happy Birthday to a musician’s musician, and a generous, artistic soul!

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Happy Birthday, Dave Jordan!

Singer Songwriter and guitarist Dave Jordan was born on January 29, 1972, in Mandeville, Louisiana, and is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, roots rocker who has been a staple of he New Orleans music scene for over 20 years. Jordan was the bass player/lead singer/founder of the funk band Juice, which was part of the resurgence of New Orleans funk music. From the mid/late ’90s until the late ’00s, Juice released 3 albums and they toured relentlessly from 1999-2003, averaging over 180 dates annually. They were recipients of 2000’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Emerging Funk/Soul/R&B Band and later nominated for Best Roots Rock Band and Album. 

Jordan has recorded or performed with a host of New Orleans luminaries, including Art and Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, George Porter, Joe Krown, Johnny Vidacovich and countless more. His 2010 solo debut release, These Old Boots, co-produced by Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Anders Osborne, was named a Top 10 record of the year by the Times-Picayune. After the release of his 2013 follow up, Bring Back Red Raspberry, Jordan returned to nationwide touring, performing with his band, the NIA (Neighborhood Improvement Association). In 2017, the band was nominated in OffBeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Roots Rock Band and Album for their 2016 release, No Losers Tonight, which features 10 originals, honed and crafted from the band’s 4 years of touring. In 2019 he released Burning Sage, reviewed by Offbeat Magazine as “a great album; perhaps the best of his long career as one of New Orleans’ foremost roots-rockers.”

In addition to his involvement with the Voice of the Wetlands, promoting the awareness and education of rebuilding the LA Gulf coast, Jordan is active in various organizations in the New Orleans community, including the Team Gleason Foundation, Upturn Arts summer art program, and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. Besides being featured in their print ad campaign, Dave is the producer of Jamie’s BigAss Party, an annual event honoring the legacy and memory of his former bandmate and friend, Jamie Galloway. The block party/crawfish boil, held at the Maple Leaf Bar, has raises funds for mental health services provided by NOMC. Happy Birthday to a musician’s musician, and a generous, artistic soul!

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Happy Birthday, Dave Jordan!

Singer Songwriter and guitarist Dave Jordan was born on January 29, 1972, in Mandeville, Louisiana, and is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, roots rocker who has been a staple of he New Orleans music scene for over 20 years. Jordan was the bass player/lead singer/founder of the funk band Juice, which was part of the resurgence of New Orleans funk music. From the mid/late ’90s until the late ’00s, Juice released 3 albums and they toured relentlessly from 1999-2003, averaging over 180 dates annually. They were recipients of 2000’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Emerging Funk/Soul/R&B Band and later nominated for Best Roots Rock Band and Album. 

Jordan has recorded or performed with a host of New Orleans luminaries, including Art and Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, George Porter, Joe Krown, Johnny Vidacovich and countless more. His 2010 solo debut release, These Old Boots, co-produced by Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Anders Osborne, was named a Top 10 record of the year by the Times-Picayune. After the release of his 2013 follow up, Bring Back Red Raspberry, Jordan returned to nationwide touring, performing with his band, the NIA (Neighborhood Improvement Association). In 2017, the band was nominated in OffBeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat Awards for Best Roots Rock Band and Album for their 2016 release, No Losers Tonight, which features 10 originals, honed and crafted from the band’s 4 years of touring. In 2019 he released Burning Sage, reviewed by Offbeat Magazine as “a great album; perhaps the best of his long career as one of New Orleans’ foremost roots-rockers.”

In addition to his involvement with the Voice of the Wetlands, promoting the awareness and education of rebuilding the LA Gulf coast, Jordan is active in various organizations in the New Orleans community, including the Team Gleason Foundation, Upturn Arts summer art program, and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. Besides being featured in their print ad campaign, Dave is the producer of Jamie’s BigAss Party, an annual event honoring the legacy and memory of his former bandmate and friend, Jamie Galloway. The block party/crawfish boil, held at the Maple Leaf Bar, has raises funds for mental health services provided by NOMC. Happy Birthday to a musician’s musician, and a generous, artistic soul!

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Happy Birthday, Tab Benoit!

Singer songwriter, guitarist, and drummer Tab Benoit was born November 17, 1967, in Houma Louisiana. A guitar player since his teenage years, he plays primarily Delta blues on his 1972 Fender Telecaster, but he’s skilled in a number of blues styles. Benoit learned from blues legends, and formed a trio in 1987, playing clubs in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Two years later he began touring other parts of the South, and started touring more of the United States in 1991. He landed a  recording contract in 1992, and has been prolific since then, releasing 19 recordings between 1993 and 2012. In that time, he has collaborated and performed with countless legendary musicians including his regular crew, bassist Carl Dufrene and drummer Darryl White, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, George Porter, Jr.., Kenny Neal,  Debbie Davies, Jimmy Thackery, Charlie Musselwhite, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, Anders Osborne, Michael Doucet, Ivan Neville, and more.

In 2007, Benoit won his first B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award presented by the Blues Music Awards, the most prestigious recognitions afforded to Blues musicians. Benoit was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2010, and two years later, he won three separate Blues Music Awards: Contemporary Blues Male Artist; Contemporary Blues Album (for 2011's Medicine); and for the second time, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. In 2013, the second year in a row, Benoit won the Blues Music Awards Contemporary Blues Male Artist.

In 2003, Benoit founded 'Voice of the Wetlands,' an organization promoting awareness of the receding coastal wetlands of Louisiana.He promotes the issues that plague Louisiana's imperiled coast to his national audience, and supports outreach and education about Louisiana's Wetlands loss and how Louisiana's rich culture is endangered as its wetlands disappear.In 2010, Benoit received the Governor's Award - Conservationist of the Year for 2009 by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Happy birthday to an amazing musician and environmentalist!

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