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Mercredi

June 19th

Walter Wolfman Washington

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

Fiery blues on Frenchmen - every week

 

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, plus Brynn Marie

House of Blues (8:00PM)

Legendary rock icon and four-time Grammy winner  

 

Bassik Underground feat. Baths + Houses + D33J

Hi Ho Lounge (9:00PM)

Feel the bass drop   

 

Wednesdays at the Point

Algiers Ferry Landing (6:00PM)

Today, Vivaz Latin Band and Paky Saavadra 

 

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.

 

Marc Stone

Little Gem Saloon (5:00PM)

Traditional Blues, Gospel, and R&B in the CBD

 

Uptown Jazz Orchestra

Snug Harbor (8:00PM)

Delfeayo Marsalis’ award-winning orchestra

Jeudi

June 20th

Barry Stephenson's Pocket

Maison (10:00PM)

Come see the in-demand bassist perform with his own band tonight

 

Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers
Vaughn's (7:00 PM)
Red beans, rice, Kermit, and you'll get to bed early

 

Soul Rebels

Les Bon Temps Roule (10:00 PM)

Brass Uptown!

 

Hot 8 Brass Band

Candlelight Lounge (8:00PM)

Shake your brass in the Treme with a blend of hip hop, R&B, and pop

 

The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich & Guests

Maple Leaf (8:00PM)

One of New Orleans’ best percussionist invites his friends to the stage

 

Brass-A-Holics

PubliQ House (9:30PM)

Brass with electric guitar and keyboard

 


Bloomy Weekend

The Lily's Revenge Brings More than 40 Players to One New Orleans Stage



Another huge local theatre collaboration is coming to New Orleans this weekend. Jess Bingham previews The Lily's Revenge, a five-act epic opening Wednesday in the Marigny.

 

New Orleans is one of those special places where our sense of community presides over everything else. It is a city where who dat, where yat, and how ya mom en em is the language for how are you doing to anyone you pass in the street. The local theatre scene has served as an example of this community in recent years, making the Crescent City an ideal place to put on the epic, community-driven tale of The Lily`s Revenge: A Flowergory Manifold. What makes this production special is the massive collaboration of theater companies and directors involved. Following in the footsteps of Balm in Gilead, another major theatre collaboration that wrapped up last month, The Lily`s Revenge goes that extra mile to bring new life to the idea of "theatre community."

The Lily's Revenge: A Flowergory Manifold
Where: Den of Muses, Architect St., Marigny (behind Mardi Gras Zone)
When: Oct. 17-21
Tickets: $10-$20
Discretion advised for viewers under 18 due to nudity, sexual content

 

The Lily`s Revenge is a story, quite plainly, about a lily in love. The lily, played by Evan Spigelman, has to overcome struggles on his mission to become a man in order to be with his lady love. Southern Repertory Theatre, and Aimee Hayes in particular, is the company who deigned to take on Taylor Mac's enormous work. Mac's work, which premiered in 2009 in New York City, sprouted out of the writer's view that tradition and nostalgia were being used to justify opposition to gay marriage, and the homogenization of cities. 

 

The cast and crew add up to over 60 people, to give one an idea of the overall girth of this production. In addition to Southern Rep, contributors include companies like Cripple Creek Theatre, Skin Horse Theatre, the Allways Lounge and Mondo Bizarro, along with Nari Tomassetti, Jefferey Gunshol and Pamela Davis Noland. Spiegelman called the play is "a complicated journey with a simple heart." It is told in five acts (with intermission instillation pieces by Skin Horse Theatre): musical, verse, dance, silent film, and the big finale which represents the "theatre of the ridiculousness." The production is representative of the Noh theatre discipline, a classical form that originated in Japan with a highly regimented thematic structure.

 

Bringing together so many different genres of performance art is no easy task, but Spigelman says "New Orleans is the ideal place for this to happen." This is because of our spectacular sense of Carnival, year around. Carrying that idea to its logical conclusion, the group chose to play out its story where Mardi Gras is made. But it won't be under the eye of the Kern family at Mardi Gras World. The Den of Muses, where the famed Krewe du Vieux makes their floats, will reinforce the similarities of "do it yourself Mardi Gras" to "do it yourself theatre" in New Orleans.

 

Ultimately, The Lily's Revenge makes a "statement on love and community," Spigelman said. Everyone comes to together to help out Lily, much like everyone in New Orleans comes together for reasons large and small, such as putting on a play.

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Dead Huey Long, Emma Boyce, Ian Hoch, Sarah Esenwein, 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

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Kerem Ozkan

Listings

Elisabeth Morgan

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Paolo Roy

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