For the first time this year, the Cutting Edge NOLA conference sponsored an outdoor event called the NOLA Downtown Music Festival in Lafayette Square near the Whitney and Intercontinental Hotels. The first night featured zydeco, and the big band jazz stylings of Kidd Jordan’s daughter Stephanie Jordan.
Month: September 2011
The Cutting Edge Music Conference was held this year at the Pan American Center at St. Charles and Poydras, and the windows had amazing views of the Central Business District.
The Cutting Edge Music Conference was held this year at the Pan American Center at St. Charles and Poydras, and the windows had amazing views of the Central Business District.
The Cutting Edge Music Conference was held this year at the Pan American Center at St. Charles and Poydras, and the windows had amazing views of the Central Business District.
The French Quarter can be a place of unexpected delights, like the coffee bar whose front door hides a tropical courtyard, or the small jazz band playing on a street corner for tips.
The French Quarter can be a place of unexpected delights, like the coffee bar whose front door hides a tropical courtyard, or the small jazz band playing on a street corner for tips.
The French Quarter can be a place of unexpected delights, like the coffee bar whose front door hides a tropical courtyard, or the small jazz band playing on a street corner for tips.
The French Quarter, Friday, September 23, 2011
The French Quarter is the New Orleans of the tourists, but even it has its charms, especially Jackson Square, with its lovely St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, the Pontalba buildings and the Cafe du Monde.
In a city as well-known for music as New Orleans, record stores are important, and the Crescent City has some good ones indeed. Louisiana Music Factory on Decatur Street is the place for all things Louisiana, from brass band music, traditional jazz, swamp pop and local rock to books and magazines about Louisiana music. Peaches Records on South Peters occupies the space of the old Tower Records, and is a reincarnation of the legendary store in Gentilly that did not survive Hurricane Katrina. The old Peaches was in an inner-city neighborhood, and specialized in rap. The new location still sells rap, but caters more to the tourist trade in the French Quarter. There is plenty of used vinyl, a nice local section with a lot of brass band music, and even a small coffee bar in the front.