Jazz Fest Crafts Online Auction - May 26 to June 1, 2020!

In an effort to support the hundreds of visual artists who would have participated in JazzFest 2020, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is pleased to host the online Jazz Fest Crafts Auction. For many participating artists, sales from Jazz Fest constitute a large percentage of their yearly income; your auction bid is an opportunity to support these vendors while also purchasing a unique piece of art.

Beginning Tuesday, May 26, the Foundation will feature 25 artists each week, for four weeks. View and bid on this week's items, featuring works from the artists listed below, starting at 10am NOLA time, 8am L.A. time, here: https://one.bidpal.net/jazzfestauction/welcome. 

Bidding on closes on June 1st at 8pm NOLA time, 6pm L.A. time. 100% of your bid will go to the artist. Artists featured in the subsequent weeks will be announced soon.

UP FROM THE STREETS New Orleans: The City of Music - Virtual Release May 15th

For New Orleanians, music is a way of life and the foundation of their cultural resilience. Eagle Rock Entertainment and Michael Murphy Productions, Inc. present Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music, a feature length documentary that showcases the culture of New Orleans thru the lens of music. Hosted by Oscar nominee and six-time Grammy Winner Terence Blanchard, the film tells stories of music as a vehicle to help battle racial injustices, unite people in good times and bad, and how music continues to be a vital form of expression today. 

Beginning May 15, you will be able to buy a ticket to a virtual cinema release of Up From The Streets ®: New Orleans: The City of Music, the celebrated New Orleans documentary. Viewers will buy a $12 ticket from a local cinema and watch the film at home, allowing them to support one of 50 local movie theaters nationwide (available here), as well as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Jazz & Heritage Music Relief Fund, a statewide relief initiative that supports New Orleans and Louisiana musicians who have lost income due to the pandemic.The ticket order is good for 7 days, and viewers will have 72 hours to watch the film once they’ve started watching it.

Enjoy this engaging, award-winning documentary about the most unique U.S. city, New Orleans!

NOLA Artist Chris Roberts-Antieau exhibits at Superfine!LA - Thursday 2/6 - Sunday 2/9

Come see NOLA artist Chris Roberts-Antieau’s exceptional work at Superfine! LA - Thursday February 6 - Sunday February 9. “My work is about joy. It’s about the mysterious origin of joy, and the wonder of childhood. (I try to hang onto that wonder with every ounce of my being!!) My art is really a by-product of my life and what I believe about being alive. I seem to be cursed with a constant vision of the “big picture” part of life, which constantly brings forth the same truths - that we are all blessed with the ability to recognize and create joy, and that life is about that creation.”

Superfine!LA says, “We’re first-movers in the curated, accessible art fair space and an anomaly among art fairs. With our plucky name and omnipresent exclamation point, we’ve remade the art fair model by dismantling tired, stuffy art world conventions one by one. We believe in a fair, transparent, and thriving art market built for business-minded art entrepreneurs and eager collectors alike.”

Happy Birthday, DJ Khaled!

Producer, rapper, songwriter, and record label executive Khaled Mohamed Khaled, better known as DJ Khaled, was born in New Orleans on November 26, 1975. A popular radio host at a hip hop station in the 1990s, he DJ’d at Terror Squad’s live shows and eventually gained production credits on their recordings. His 2006 debut album “ Listennn... the Album” achieved gold, and Khaled founded his own label, We the Best Music Group. He has continued to achieve great success with his subsequent releases, even garnering a Grammy nomination in 2016 for Best Rap Album for his ninth studio album, “Major Key”. Subsequent releases have also achieved great commercial and critical success, with his 2019 album, “Father of Asahd” achieving number 2 on the Billboard 200. Khaled is also a prominent media personality, an actor, and he is a New York Times bestselling writer with his book The Keys.

Photo by: Meghan Roberts - DJ Khaled, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46144938

Celebrating the Birthday of Dr. John

On November 20, 1941, New Orleans gifted the world with Malcolm “Mac” John Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, the Night Tripper. Rebennack was a singer, songwriter and musician whose unique “New Orleans Sound” combined blues, pop, jazz, soul, boogie woogie, funk, and rock n roll, and whose stage appearance was inspired by Mardi Gras Indians and voodoo shaman. He made his album debut with Gris-Gris in 1968, and had a hit single in 1973 with “Right Place, Wrong Time”. Over the following decades, Dr. John has released numerous albums and songs covering a wide range of styles and genres, becoming a six-time Grammy winner along the way. He was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Dr. John passed away in his beloved New Orleans on June 6, 2019.

The Revivalists at the Greek Theatre on 9/27/19

The Revivalists have been bringing their unique brand of rock, R&B, soul, country, and funk since they formed in 2007 in New Orleans. If you’re not yet one of the Revivalists faithful, be prepared for conversion when you see them at the Greek on September 27th! Hallelujah!

Photo: Travis Shinn