New Orleans is famous for its music, but many outsiders find the city synonymous with only certain genres and styles. Flying under the radar of trendy press coverage of artists featured in HBO’s Treme and bounce on late night television, is a diverse and tight knit movement of young emerging artists with an intelligent world view and unique, genre-bending talent.

Aura Fedora returns with the final installment of her French Quarter Fest series, posing a quintet of questions to noted NOLA cellist Helen Gillet.

Helen Gillet’s unexpected cello offerings are becoming a hot commodity in the New Orleans music scene. Her influences are varied, and sometimes one is never entirely sure what to expect from one of her performances, except that they will be quite entertaining. How does Helen describe her sound?

Throughout French Quarter Fest, local podcast producer Aura Fedora will ask five questions of four different scheduled acts. For t installment, she caught up with The Revivalists' David Shaw. 

“Original, soulful and from the heart. “ That’s how vocalist David Shaw describes the sound and feel of The Revivalists’ music. With very obvious blues and soul influences melded with rock, they power through more tour dates in support of their newest release, City of Sound.

New Orleans singer-songwriter Kristin Diable talks to Aura Fedora about the release of her new album with her trio The City. Once again, there's two ways to take in this interview: reading and listening.

This week, ditch your headphones and get on your dancing shoes. Aura Fedora talks to local musicians Big Sam, Paul Sanchez, Khris Royal and Luke Hudleston about their Mardi Gras schedules, and some of this weekend's main after-dark events.