Defender Picks 
DIMANCHEFebruary 5thTrinity Episcopal Church (5:00PM) Music director/organist presents his 'Tribute to Black History Month'.
Cafe Istanbul (6:00PM) NOLA filmmaker talks Brooklyn thugs in this new docu.
Nowe Miasto (4:00PM-7:00PM) Open hours to come help out, whether a regular or not.
Buffa's (11:00AM) Weekly Sun Gig- Trad Jazz Brunch.
BMC (6:00PM)
Weekly Sun Gig-Take me to the honky tonk. Howlin' Wolf den (9:00PM) Weekly Sun Gig-The street beat moves yr feet.
Joe Krown Trio feat. Russell Batiste & Walter "Wolfman" Washington Maple Leaf Bar (10:00PM) Weekly Sun Gig- Wolfman hits the other side of Canal. LUNDIFebruary 6th
Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00 PM) Weekly Mon Gig- Red Beans and nice!
dba (10:00 PM) Weekly Mon Gig- GDA lights up DBA.
BJ's Lounge (10:00PM) Weekly Mon Gig- Burgundy in the Bywater for that downtown rhythm and blues.
Snug Harbor (8:00PM, 10:00PM) Weekly Mon Gig- like clockwork.
Spotted Cat (10:00PM) Weekly Mon Gig- JV holdin' it down. MARDIFebruary 7th
Maple Leaf Bar (10:00 PM)
3 sets by the best band in the land.
Broadway St Market (9:00AM-1:00PM) Weekly Tues Gig- hola Green Plate specials.
Spotted Cat (10:00PM)
Weekly Tues Gig- Celebrity Mixtape and Frenchmen st alumn.
Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00PM)
Weekly Tues Gig- Chartres heads to St Claude to test your music trivia chops.
NOLA Community Printshop's Screenprint Open Shop 830 Elysian Fields(6:00PM-10:00PM) Weekly Tues. Gig- drop in night! Bring a Black & White (high contrast) transparency or photocopy. MERCREDIFebruary 8th
Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale Latter Library Carriage House (10:00AM-2:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- bi-weekly sale on St. Charles.
Weswego Farmers & Fisheries Market 484 Sala Ave (8:00AM-2:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- produce, baked goods, pony rides (!) seafood, live tunes, and more.
Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake Chickie Wah Wah (8:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig-Smoke free in Mid-City.
Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses Mimi's (10:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- Upstairs.
Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- from the street to the stage. Midnight Snax throwdown follows at 10pm.
dba (7:00 PM) Weekly Wed Gig- The world's premiere washboard-sousaphone-guitar trio.
Candlelight Lounge (9:00 PM) Weekly Wed Gig- Pass on by and see Uncle Li.
JEUDIFebruary 9th
Hi-Ho Lounge (9:00 PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- Brass mainstays bring the second line inside.
Les Bon Temps Roule (11:00 PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- Who dat call da police?
Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers Vaughn's (8:30 PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- Move ya feet, eat ya meat.
Saturn Bar (9:00PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- McMurray storms St. Claude.
Three Muses (4:30PM) Happy hour with Tom McD; leave the office early...if there's an office in the first place.
Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand Buffa's (8:00PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- A dynamic pairing for the smoke free backend. VENDREDIFebruary 10thFrench Quarter (3:30 PM) Mardi Gras parade and wine. Sounds like the fruit of the vine!
Krewe of Oshun Uptown (6:00 PM) The year's first parade on the Uptown route!
Armstrong Park (3:00PM-6:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Take advantage of activity at Armstrong.
NOMA (5:30PM-8:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- music, film, live performance, and more for you and the fam.
915 N. Dupre (6:00PM-12:00AM) Weekly Fri Gig- Yard livin'- drink, spirits, people, food truck vibe from a Mid-City tribe.
Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse (11:50PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Get your Trixie Minx!
Free Food Funk n Crunk Friday feat. DJ Justin Handsome Willy's (5:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- outdoor bites and beats.
Yuki (10:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- A break from Frenchmen (on Frenchmen).
Republic (10:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Dance through the decades. VENDREDIFebruary 10th
Armstrong Park (3:00PM-6:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Take advantage of activity at Armstrong.
NOMA (5:30PM-8:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- music, film, live performance, and more for you and the fam.
Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse (11:50PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Get your Trixie Minx!
Free Food Funk n Crunk Friday feat. DJ Justin Handsome Willy's (5:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- outdoor bites and beats.
Yuki (10:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- A break from Frenchmen (on Frenchmen).
Republic (10:00PM) Weekly Fri Gig- Dance through the decades. SAMEDIFebruary 11thUptown (2:00 PM) Afternoon parade on Mardi Gras' main drag!
Uptown (6:00 PM) Get your Athenian wisdom off this parade route.
Uptown (6:45 PM) Mardi Gras goes to Cyprus!
West Bank (11:00 AM) Time to open up the Algiers parade route.
West Bank (11:45 AM) The blonde and muscular take to the parade route.
Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale Latter Library Carriage House (10:00AM-2:00PM) Weekly Sat Gig- bi-weekly sale on St. Charles.
Weswego Farmers & Fisheries Market 484 Sala Ave (8:30AM-12:30PM) Weekly Sat Gig- produce, baked goods, pony rides (!) seafood, live tunes, and more.
5500 St Claude (10:00AM-2:00PM) Weekly Sat Gig- rain or shine: local produce and seafood on the old Good Children strip.
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Wednesday at the SquareBy Laura Cayouette Despite the unpredictable weather, Irma Thomas and the Threadhead Players drew large crowds for this week's Wednesday at the Square benefitting the Youth Leadership Council. Irma Thomas and Margie Perez graced the stage. Louisiana Music Hall of Fame artist, Irma Thomas, is known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans. She won her first Grammy in 2007 after several nominations in a career spanning 50 years thus far.
Thomas' trip down memory lane took the crowd through 60's doo-wop, contemporary blues, New Orleans standards like "Pocky Way," and bump-n-grind inspirers like "Hip Shakin' Mama." Though she sang, "It's raining," the weather held out and the crowd got drenched, instead, with sweat from dancing.
Her Majesty interacted with the crowd several times, encouraging us to wave hankies in a faux second line, teasing with a dancing fool who'd been following her career for decades, and giving a rare autograph to a nine year old girl who'd drawn a picture of her while standing on the fence-line at the front row.
Among the throng was guitarist, Jeanine Duhe, from all-female blues band, 30x90, who was there to watch earlier act Margie Perez, with whom she's played several times. Ms. Duhe has been playing with 30x90 since they formed their band in the wake of Katrina. "Me and Terri Cranford and Yvette Watkins, bass player, we'd been wanting to do this for years and so we decided to do it after Katrina. My band broke up and their bands broke up and we got together and the three of us have been together for five years... Thirty by ninety is the latitude and longitude of New Orleans, it's our place on the planet." 30x90 will be playing Friday night at Peggy Sue's Lounge and at the Paradise Inn Pensacola Beach Memorial Day weekend and the following 4th and 5th.
Though I'd missed her show, I did catch up with Margie Perez afterward. She performed at the Square along with Threadhead Records artists, Paul Sanchez, Alex McMurray, Glen David Andrews and others.
Fresh from her first Jazz Fest as a solo player with her own band, Perez, who sang back-up for Marva Wright at Jazz Fest 2006, and for Allen Toussaint in 2007, declared, "My life changed when I moved to New Orleans, for the better, and its gotten even better now that I've hooked up with the Threadheads... My favorite thing about being a New Orleans musician is that I get to make music with other New Orleans' musicians."
This was Perez' first time playing Wednesday at the Square. "I go to every music event that there is. If I'm not playing it, I'm in the audience and so I've met so many people through all that and seeing a lot of them here - and I've been coming to Wednesday at the Square for years, and to be able to play it for the first time - to look out and see all those people that I always say hello to when I come here as an audience member, to see them in the audience was... it was so special." Next up for Ms. Perez is the Creole Tomato Festival in the French Market on June 13th at 3:30 pm. This will be her second appearance at a New Orleans festival playing with her own band.
Threadhead Records, for those not in the know, began as an effort to help musicians who were victims of Katrina to help themselves. It is run by volunteers and funded by fans. Threadhead loans artists money to produce a CD and in turn, the artist agrees to pay back the loan within six months along with a 10% donation to the Threadhead Records Foundation or other recognized charities benefitting local musicians. The loan money is then returned to the investor-fans. Sounds like a great way to help local musicians help themselves.
Only three more Wednesdays remain in this year's program, sponsored by our world champion New Orleans Saints. Geaux Saints! www.lauracayouette.com ’)
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Contributors:Arielle Schecter, Laura Cayouette, Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Tristan Bennett, Rachel Dainer-Best, Christopher Herbeck, Kermit M. Mudgeley, Stella Kowalski, Huey P. Long, Hallie Gerard, Mack Walters, Paul McRambles, Erik Carter, Christina LeBlanc, Michael Cohn-Geltner, Jocelyn Buckley, Dave Rosenberg, Tanya Gulliver, Alexander J. Hancock Listings Kermit M. Mudgely Editor for Uptown: Brad Rhines Editors at Large: Laine Kaplan-Levenson Art Director: Michael Weber, B.A. Managing EditorLevi Bruce Editor: B. E. Mintz Published Daily byMinced Media, Inc. |
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