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Mardi

May 21st

Rolling Through

Rosa Keller Library (5:00-9:00 PM)

My House NOLA presents a rolling food vendor mini festival

 

101 Drummers

Maple Leaf (8:00PM)

Feel the Mardi Gras Indian beat with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

 

Rebirth Brass Band
Maple Leaf Bar (10:00 PM)
2 sets by the Grammy-winning brass band

 

Crescent City Farmers Market
Broadway St Market (9:00AM-1:00PM)
Weekly Tues Gig- Uptown edition of the city's prime local market

 

Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns
Spotted Cat (10:00PM)
Weekly Tues Gig- Booming swing and a voice that will make you melt. A lindy hoppers' delight.


 

Calle 54 Screening

The Antenna Gallery (7:00 PM)

A series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and WWOZ

 

Birdfoot Backstage with WWNO 89.9 FM

Jewish Community Center (7:30 PM)

The second evening of a chamber music festival that has something for classical aficionados and dilettantes alike

 

Pure X

Circle Bar (10:00 PM)

Catch the Indie rockers on their North American tour

Mercredi

May 22nd

Much Ado About Nothing

NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden (5:00 PM)

The NOLA Project presents this festive comedy that pits two of Shakespeare's most beloved characters, Benedick and Beatrice, in a war of words and wits

 

Artist Inc. Fundraiser

1445 Pauger Street (6:00 PM)

Cultural philanthropists Dorian and Kel Bennett have opened their historic Marigny home for this inaugural event with music, theater and dance performances

 

Retox with Tinsel Teeth

Circle Bar (10:00 PM)

Punk rock on Lee Circle

 

Walter Wolfman Washington

d.b.a. (10:00 PM)

Fiery blues on Frenchmen - every week

 

Curren$y's Jet Lounge

Blue Nile (10:00 PM)

The NOLA rapper's weekly party

 

Major Bacon

Banks Street Bar (10:00 PM)

Blues rock and BLTs!

 

SIN Night

Country Club (All Day)

Weekly Wed Gig- $3 martinis and free admission for the service industry folks.

 

Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake

Chickie Wah Wah (8:00PM)

Weekly Wed Gig- Piano man meets a golden voice.

 

Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses

Mimi's (10:00PM)

Weekly Wed Gig- Gypsy jazz upstairs in the Marigny

 

Busker's Ballroom

Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00PM)

Weekly Wed Gig- from the street to the stage. Midnight Snax throwdown follows at 10pm.

 

Tin Men

dba (7:00 PM)

Weekly Wed Gig- The world's premiere washboard-sousaphone-guitar trio.

 

Treme Brass Band

Candlelight Lounge (9:00 PM)

Weekly Wed Gig- Pass on by and see the 6th Ward’s home band

Jeudi

May 23rd


Much Ado About Nothing

NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden (5:00 PM)

The NOLA Project presents this festive comedy that pits two of Shakespeare's most beloved characters in a war of words and wits

 

Thursdays at Twilight with Alex McMurray

City Park’s Botanical Garden (5:00 PM)

New Orleanian songwriter performs at the weekly outdoor concert series

 

After Hours with Seth Walker

The Ogden Museum (6:00 PM)

Singer/ songwriter who has recently performed at Austin City Limits Music Festival and provided tour support for Raul Malo and the Wood Brothers

 

Maya Erdelyi Reception and Film Screening

The Foundation Gallery (6:00 PM)      

A screening of Maya's award-winning animation "Pareidolia" followed by a Q &A with the artist

 

Night Train

Snug Harbor (8:00 & 10:00 PM)

The third evening of a chamber music festival that has something for classical aficionados and dilettantes alike


 

Marcel Black

Hi Ho Lounge (9:00 PM)

Hip hop artist raps on St. Claude with his album Trap Hop

 

Stoop Kids

Circle Bar (10:00 PM)

Performing tracks from the new album 'What a World'


Art without Admission: Free Museum Day Tomorrow


by Lianna Patch 

Raise your hand if you like free things. Now raise your hand if you like museums. If you kept your hand up, you’ll be excited to learn that this Saturday, September 29, is Museum Day Live! Sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, the event is your chance to wander museums and plantations in and around New Orleans without having to buy so much as a pencil at the gift shop.

 

 

Participating museums include the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Center, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the African American Museum, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and even the Louisiana Children’s Museum. You can also visit Melrose Plantation, Oak Alley Plantation, or Longue Vue House and Gardens.

 

Perhaps best of all, local doll enthusiasts can check out House of Broel’s Victorian Mansion Dollhouse and Fashion Museums on St. Charles Avenue, which, in addition to showcasing historically accurate scale models of mansions, offers the inimitable Louisiana Frog Farm. I know where I’ll be.

 

Get your free ticket for two and view a full list of participating venues here. See what's going on all over the city in NoDef's State of the Art.




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Contributors:

Dead Huey Long, Emma Boyce, Ian Hoch, Sarah Esenwein, Ryan Sparks, Will Dilella, Chris Rinaldi, Lianna Patch, Phil Yiannopoulos, Cate Czarnecki, Jonas Griffin, Jennifer Abbot, Mary Kilpatrick, Elaina Patton, Mike Horst, Devin Bambrick, Katherine McGuire, Norris Ortolano, Joe Shriner

Staff Writers

Ryan Sparks, Kerem Ozkan

Listings

Elisabeth Morgan

Puzzler

Paolo Roy

Art Director:

Michael Weber, B.A.

Assistant Managing Editor

Mary-Devon Dupuy

Managing Editor

Stephen Babcock

Editor:

B. E. Mintz

Published Daily by

Minced Media, Inc.