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Burn, Falco, Burn

Steve Earle & the Dukes TUE. MAY 1 | Country, folk and rock musician Steve Earle likes to play the chameleon. After a decade in New York, he went to Austin to record his 2017 tribute to outlaw country So You Want to Be an Outlaw. He was one of the only musicians in David Simon’s Treme not to appear as himself. He returns to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his rocking Copperhead Road album. The Mastersons open at 9 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Tav Falco’s Panther Burns returns to New Orleans

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NAMED AFTER A MISSISSIPPI LEGEND in which a panther was set ablaze inside a burning plantation, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns emerged as a self-described “art damage” fireball torching the South. Falco formed Panther Burns with Big Star’s Alex Chilton in Memphis in the late 1970s, reveling in a deviant deconstruction of and devotion to early rock ’n’ roll, exorcising the ghosts within it and dancing with them on albums spanning the last several decades.

Falco’s Panther Burns returns to New Orleans for two shows this week, reuniting with a city that helped shape the band in its early incarnation.

In an email from his home in Vienna, where Falco has lived for the last decade, he tells Gambit that ultimately his “fondness for the Crescent City lies with the truly Southern hospitality and warmth of its people,” beginning as a child from “the backwoods of Arkansas” visiting a New Orleans filled with oysters at Antoine’s Restaurant, pastries on Royal Street and Sweet Emma Barrett inside Preservation Hall.

He later returned to New Orleans for two years, where he fondly remembers studying Professor Longhair and sipping Old Fashioneds with legendary Memphis photographer William Eggleston at The Columns Hotel.

He later was arrested Uptown for “rowdy behavior,” he says. “Reckon I was cutting a fairly flamboyant figure to rate that kind of charge in [New Orleans], but my swarthy cellmates treated me just fine.”

After forming Panther Burns in Memphis, the band was invited to perform with The Cramps at Ole Man Rivers and by artist Bunny Matthews to perform at the Contemporary Arts Center. “Alex fell in love with the city right from the start,” Falco writes.

“When his father, the Memphis tenor saxophone player Sydney Chilton, died, Alex moved to New Orleans the next day. In order to evade the reaching arms of certain Memphis hussies, I decamped later.”

Falco followed in his black 1964

Ford Thunderbird and shared two rooms with Chilton behind a shotgun on Plum Street.

Later, they moved into a garage apartment on Barracks Street behind the home of artist Robert Tannen; Falco left town for a rooftop tent in New York after one too many unpleasant encounters with Tannen’s “unruly hound” Ghost. Chilton, of course, remained in New Orleans until his death in 2010.

“The morose sounds of church bells ringing randomly around the city still echo in my ears, not unlike those of merry/sinister old Vienna, where I now reside,” Falco says. “Here the baroque imagination runs wild. Before I left New Orleans, a mad Arkansas poet and I placed a note of appreciation in the mailbox of the last known residence of Tennessee Williams. We weren’t sure he was there, but his vibe certainly was.”

Falco’s prolific decade abroad has produced several albums, EPs and 7-inch singles, as well as two books — 2011’s Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death and 2016’s An Iconography of Chance: 99 Photographs of the Evanescent South.

In 2015, he premiered his featurelength film debut Urania Descending, the first in a planned trilogy of a noirinspired avant-garde films.

In 2014, he assembled Panther Burns in Rome to record Command Performance, and he recently wrapped recording for Cabaret of Daggers (ORG Music), reuniting his Roman lineup that also joins this tour: drummer Riccardo Colasante, guitarist Mario Monterosso, and bassist Giuseppe Sangirardi, along with keyboardist Francesco D’Agnolo, a veteran session player with film composer Ennio Morricone. Falco calls it a “provocative yet romantic record,”

TUE. MAY 1 | Shuttered since dropping an unannounced expansion (Thank Your Lucky Stars) just six weeks after its 2015 slow-bloomer Depression Cherry, Beach House drew the blinds with last year’s B-Sides and Rarities compilation.

It kicks open the doors for this month’s 7 (Sub Pop), whose advance singles add several layers to the Baltimore duo’s dream-pop parfait.

Sound of Ceres opens at 8 p.m. at Civic Theatre.

Waxahatchee with Guts Club TUE. MAY 1 | Waxahatchee singer/ songwriter Katie Crutchfield delivers the live-to-tape catharsis of last summer’s self-helper Out in the Storm (Merge). Guts Club (aka New Orleansbased scatological entomologist Lindsey Baker) opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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charged with “introspection, heights of frenzy, some sensual R&B grooves, gender identity crises, strange tangos and a lynching blues.”

As with his past work, Falco’s visions brim with a postmodern wit, leveraging irony and humor to endure the apocalypse.

“The film director Alejandro Jodorowsky once told me that he prefers to film in Italy and that he always prefers to work with an Italian crew because for the Italians, anything is possible. I find this true,” Falco says.

“Some of my songs are structurally unusual — off genre. Aside from comments like, ‘Hey, this song is kind of crazy,’ my colleagues in Italy just pounce on it without reservation. No further questions asked.”

United Bakery Records Revue II TUE.-WED. MAY 1-2 | The second annual live recording shindig from New Orleans label United Bakery features Flow Tribe, Slangston Hughes, No Money Down, Max and the Martians, Lo Beam and Esther Rose on May 1, and TV Pole Shine, Dr. Sick, Luke Spurr Allen, Joy Clark, de lune deluge and Sabine McCalla on May 2. Sessions begin at 3 p.m. at Marigny Studios.

Little Shop of Horrors FRI.-SUN. MAY 4-20 | Florist Seymour Krelborn adopts a plant with a voracious appetite and big personality in the musical adaptation of Roger Corman’s cult-favorite 1960 B film. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts.

BreakFest SUN. MAY 6 | The annual breakfast tradition on the second Sunday of Jazz Fest begins with yoga, followed by music from The Tin Men, Andrew Duhon, Aurora Nealand and Slim & the Beast, and food and drinks from Monkey Monkey, Blue Dot Donuts, The Station, Kombucha Girl Living and Fete au Fete. At 9 a.m. at Second Line Brewing.

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BIDDING OPENS MAY 8 | BIDDING ENDS MAY 11 1314 Napoleon Avenue, Unit 16, New Orleans, LA | Showings Daily 1-4PM & by Appt.

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New Orleans Pelicans

swept a four-game series against the Portland Trail Blazers and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.

Though many had counted them out earlier in the season, the Pels not only made short work of the Blazers, but also put on two thrilling soldout games in the Smoothie King Center.

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Walt Handelsman

won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists last week. Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for The New Orleans Advocate (which owns Gambit) won for a collection of five cartoons ranging from the Confederate monument debate to Russian meddling in U.S. politics. It’s Handelsman’s third time to receive the national honor.

The Gulf States Quilting Association (GSQA)

presented more than 100 homemade quilts to first responders and the Children’s Safe Harbor Domestic Violence Program during the GSQA’s 17th biennial quilt show in Slidell. The quilts will be given to needy children on the Northshore. Some 400 quilts were on display at the event last month at Northshore Harbor.

With skylights and walls of windows pouring light into a sea of concrete, city officials announced the construction of a massive new terminal to replace the Louis Armstrong International Airport is “65 to 70 percent complete.”

The nearly $1 billion project will include 35 gates and several locally based restaurants, concessions, newsstands and gift shops, including Angelo Brocato, Emeril’s, Dirty Coast, Fleurty Girl, Mondo, Mopho, The Munch Factory, Pulp + Grind, PJ’s Coffee and the Preservation Hall Foundation.

New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officials celebrated progress on the terminal construction April 25. Mayor Mitch Landrieu called the project the “cornerstone” of the metro area’s future and “the gateway of the South,” serving as a major economic driver when it opens in spring 2019. “You haven’t seen a facility like this in the city of New Orleans, and there won’t be one like this in the country,” he said.

The airport saw 12 million passengers in 2017, which followed 11.1 million in 2016 and 10.3 million in 2015. The airport offers 56 nonstop destinations, including nonstop international flights with Condor and British Airways.

Among other amenities at the new terminal are a football field-sized passenger screening area, an entertainment stage and storefronts from Brother’s, Chick-Fil-A, City Greens, CNBC, Dylan’s Candy Bar, Leah’s Kitchen, Lolli & Pops, NOLA Couture, Starbucks, WhereTraveler and Ye Olde College Inn, among others. An elevated roadway to the terminal entrance also is partially completed.

The project broke ground in 2016, a year after city officials unveiled $300 million in renovations at the current terminal. In 2016, officials anticipated completing the job by May 2018.

Officials anticipate the new terminal opening in tandem with a new I-10 interchange from Loyola Avenue, one of three recently approved state projects totaling $600 million and supported by Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicles, or GARVEE, bonds. The $124 million interchange project will allow traffic flow from I-10 in all directions to the new airport terminal, which sits at Aberdeen Street near Loyola.

Quote of the week “The beignet fixes the only flaw in the doughnut — there is no hole.”

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AIRPORT OFFICIALS PREVIEWED the new terminal for the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport last week. The nearly $1 billion project will feature 35 gates and dozens of concessions operated by locally owned businesses, including Angelo Brocato, Emeril’s, Dirty Coast, Fleurty Girl, Mondo, Mopho and The Munch Factory. It is scheduled to open in spring 2019. — REPORTED BY ALEX WOODWARD SOURCE: DIRECTOR OF AVIATION KEVIN DOLLIOLE.

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saw the cartoon family vacationing in New Orleans. The episode, titled “Lisa Gets the Blues,” also featured a funny montage of Homer eating his way through dozens of New Orleans restaurants, from Galatoire’s and Dooky Chase’s to Coop’s Place and Gene’s Po-Boys. Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews played himself in a cameo role.

State Senate passes ban on abortions after 15 weeks A controversial ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy has passed the Louisiana Senate, with a catch — if it becomes law, it won’t go into effect unless a similar statute in Mississippi is upheld in federal court.

Senate Bill 181 by state Sen. John Milkovich, D-Shreveport, closely parallels the Mississippi law, which drew a legal challenge within 24 hours of being signed by that state’s governor last month. In a last-minute amendment on the floor, state Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Metairie, proposed changes to S.B. 181 that would keep it from going into effect unless federal courts rule favorably on the Mississippi law, making an end run around objections based on costly legal battles.

“This is a win-win in the interim,” Martiny said. “This amendment will make sure that we spend no money litigating this issue.”

The amended version of the bill also seemed to clear up a question over whether SB 181 would undercut a 2006 law that bans abortions in Louisiana in the event the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade is overturned. After a graphic closing statement by Milkovich, senators voted 31-3 in favor of the bill, advancing it to consideration by the House.

State Sens. Wesley Bishop, J.P. Morrell and Troy Carter, all New Orleans Democrats, voted in opposition.

It’s unclear what this means for women and abortion rights proponents in Louisiana. Courts consistently have found early-term bans on abortion unconstitutional, based on the “viability” standard.

Public comment on STRs available through July 2 The New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC) heard nearly three hours of public comment April 24 about possible changes to the city’s one-year-old short-term rental (STR) laws — and how the proliferation of tourist housing and inconsistent enforcement of regulations on the books have affected neighborhoods and residents’ quality of life.

After more than a year of debate over the consequences of the cur-

rent rules governing STR platforms like Airbnb, the New Orleans City Council earlier this year directed the CPC to study STRs’ impacts and whether the rules need to be amended. That could mean the CPC will offer new recommendations to the City Council, such as requiring owners to reside on STR properties, capping the number of STRs per block, or limiting the number of licenses a person can have.

Initially, the CPC recommended the City Council reject all wholehome rentals — but in 2016, the Council agreed to whole-home “temporary” rentals up to 90 days a year and for unlimited rentals in commercial districts. The City Council also rejected a homestead exemption requirement.

A March report from Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative outlined how just over 16 percent of New Orleans STR operators control nearly half of all listings, illustrating how companies and developers have leveraged the new STR laws to turn local housing into networks of hotels throughout the city at the expense of residents and former residents.

The CPC staff will submit a report by mid-July. Written comments will be accepted until July 2 by emailing cpcinfo@nola.gov.

The issue will be one of the first for the incoming City Council and Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell’s administration. Incoming councilmen Joe Giarrusso III and Jay Banks have expressed concerns over the current regulations, and Cantrell sponsored the motion for a CPC study. When the Council passed STR regulations in 2016, Council President Jason Williams argued voting against them would allow more proliferation without any control. Last month, Williams admitted those rules allowed loopholes and “unintended consequences” enabling “international companies [to buy] up whole blocks and driving up the cost to rent, the cost to buy.”

Residents at the CPC’s hearing April 24 demanded city officials reconsider a homestead exemption and a “one host, one home” requirement, as well as a ban on all wholehome rentals. Several residents also urged officials to continue a prohibition on STRs in the French Quarter and to extend that protection to other neighborhoods.

Residents also requested that STR platforms share detailed data and be required to have a license to operate in the city.

Local jail population down by half New Orleans’ jail population has effectively been cut in half since

2010, down from a pre-Hurricane Katrina total of 6,500 people incarcerated in Orleans Parish Prison that contributed to the state’s perennial statistic as the most incarcerated state in the U.S. When Mayor Mitch Landrieu took office in 2010, the city had roughly 3,400 inmates, which fell to 1,600 when City Hall received the beginning of what would become a more than $1.5 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to help curb its prison population. By the end of 2017, the number of incarcerated people in the parish fell to roughly 1,400. Landrieu hands over the keys to City Hall with plans to drop the number by another 200 inmates by 2019.

Last week, criminal justice officials discussed jail reduction plans for the coming years at the New Orleans City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee, where committee chair and outgoing District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry said the trend is “vital to the trajectory of our city and our future” as the current administration leaves office. Steps include reducing or avoiding pretrial detention for low-level crimes, including parole and failure-to-appear violations.

The Landrieu administration also unveiled a Public Safety Assessment tool that aims to help judges assess pretrial scenarios, including felony offenders’ risk of arrest or failure to appear in court, to “increase safety, reduce taxpayer costs, and enhance fairness and efficiency in the system.”

The tool will launch with pretrial services in summer 2018.

Mac is back: Supergroup Fleetwood Mac coming to town in 2019 Fleetwood Mac will return to New Orleans in 2019 — without Lindsey Buckingham. The band plays the Smoothie King Center Feb. 16 with the lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie and new members Mike Campbell, former guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House.

According to Fleetwood in an interview with Rolling Stone, the band reached an “impasse of hitting a brick wall” with longtime guitarist and vocalist Buckingham over the scheduling of this tour. “This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band,” Fleetwood said. “To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in terms of what we need to do as a band and go forward.”

Tickets are $46.50-$226.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 4.

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THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW AND WONDERFUL to discover at the

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. If you’re heading out this weekend to see Trombone Shorty, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Lionel Richie or one of hundreds of other musical acts, duck into the Cultural Exchange Pavilion as well. Most years, the pavilion salutes an international culture, but this year it’s focused on something different: our culture, which has been celebrated since last November via the city’s tricentennial.

The celebration culminated recently with NOLA Navy Week and Tall Ships on the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain and International Weekend, when diplomats from more than 24 nations (including indigenous tribes who were here before 1718) gathered to celebrate and be thanked for their impacts on our city. Other highlights included restoring and reopening Gallier Hall, a free concert titled “Our City, Our Future” at the Saenger Theatre, and an interfaith prayer service at St. Louis Cathedral.

By all accounts, our city’s 300th birthday bash has been a hit, and congratulations are in order to Mark Romig, president and CEO of 2018 NOLA Foundation, the nonprofit that coordinated tricentennial events — and the thousands of volunteers (including Romig, who by day leads the city’s Tourism and Marketing Corp.) who made the celebration happen. “The focus of our efforts has been to provide as many touch points for the community as possible,” Romig told Gambit. “Our aim was to not only create celebratory moments, but also to provide opportunities to learn more about our unique position in the world and become more aware of our complicated and complete history.”

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation echoed Romig in

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a statement, saying, “In addition to New Orleans’ renowned Creole and African heritage, the pavilion presentation will shed a light on lesser-known contributions by Native Americans, Germans, Irish, Italians, Vietnamese and Hispanics among others, through artist demonstrations, live music and dance showcases, authentic food, parades, photo exhibits and cultural displays.”

Musical tributes include Kermit Ruffins’ annual homage to Louis Armstrong, Henry Butler’s salute to Jelly Roll Morton and Jeremy Davenport’s debut of “One-Way Ticket to New Orleans,” a song he wrote for the tricentennial celebration, as well as special tributes to Fats Domino and Sidney Bechet. Cajun and Creole bands will perform, as will Mardi Gras Indians. The festival’s traditional second lines this year will include a salute to Congo Square and an Irish-Italian parade. The Cultural Exchange Pavilion will feature a “visual timeline” tracing the history of New Orleans and its people from around the world. Artists will demonstrate everything from canoe making to Mardi Gras Indian beading. The final night of the fest will feature (in addition to Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue’s traditional closing) a fireworks display.

There’s more to come later this year. Other tricentennial events will include the “NOLA4Women Summit on Women and Girls” in June and the New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Duke of Orleans” exhibit, which opens in October. Though it will miss the tricentennial proper, the opening of the new Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport terminal — scheduled for February 2019 — is certainly a proper way for the city to begin its fourth century.

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Schedler should resign FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, the Louisiana Secre-

tary of State’s office has been one of the best-run agencies in state government. From its website to its main and satellite offices, the agency and its staff have done a terrific job of maintaining important business and public records, conducting elections, managing the state archives and operating some of the state’s museums.

That’s why it’s a shame what current Secretary of State Tom Schedler has brought upon himself and the office. Schedler is embroiled in an embarrassing, high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a female subordinate. It is undisputed that he sent her suggestive — and sometimes explicit — love

letters and emails. She now alleges that he retaliated after she rebuffed him.

Schedler claims he and the woman, Dawn Ross, had a “consensual sexual relationship.” Ross denies that.

Regardless of who’s telling the truth about the nature of their relationship — including whether they even had a relationship beyond the workplace — Schedler already has admitted enough to justify calls for his resignation.

People in positions of power should not abuse their positions by propositioning those who work for them. Period.

This is not an opinion; it’s state and federal law.

It doesn’t matter if it happens in the public sector or in a private business. Workplace sexual harassment (which

includes making unwanted romantic overtures to a subordinate) is illegal. It’s all the worse when the relative positions of the pursuer and the pursued are disparate, as is the case between a statewide elected official and an unclassified employee in his office.

Even if, purely for the sake of argument, Schedler’s claim of a consensual relationship is true, it’s entirely inappropriate for an elected official to become romantically involved with an employee. As current circumstances prove, such entanglements rarely end well.

At a minimum, Schedler has dishonored his office, shown a profound lack of judgment, and embarrassed himself — as shown by the results of a public records request by The Advocate. The newspaper, whose owner also owns Gambit, received a trove of romantic, suggestive communiques sent by Schedler to Ross — many of them during

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office hours using a state email server. He also sent “stacks of Christmas cards, birthday greetings and other notes,” according to Advocate reporter Jim Mustian’s story.

Among the thousands of emails turned over to the newspaper, many show that Schedler made uninvited, sexually suggestive remarks to

Ross over the course of several years. Many of Schedler’s emails were initially redacted.

When the newspaper got the redactions removed, many of them turned out to be apparent attempts to cover up embarrassing or explicit overtures by Schedler, which only makes him look worse.

Schedler has refused comment on the entire matter.

Professionally and personally, I have known Schedler for many years, and I’ve always considered him a very good public servant. He took over an office that was already well-run and made it even better. When President Donald Trump’s sham “elections integrity commission” tried to politicize voter registration rolls, Schedler, a Republican, stood tall against the move.

That was arguably his finest hour. It was followed too soon by his worst. For the sake of the office and its dedicated staff, he should resign.

We always hear about the National Register of Historic Places. As a 300-year-old city, I’m sure New Orleans has many places listed, but how many exactly? What is the process for getting on the list?

Dear reader, The National Register of Historic Places is administered by the National Park Service, a federal agency within the Department of the Interior.

The list was established by Congress in 1966 and now includes more than 90,000 properties nationwide. Prior to 1966, many sites were declared National Historic Landmarks. New Orleans has several of those as well.

Of Louisiana’s 1,425 listings on the National Register of Historic Places, 177 are in Orleans Parish, according to the state Division of Historic Preservation. Among the first local landmarks to be included were the Cabildo, Old Ursuline Convent and Jackson Square. There are more

than two dozen historic districts listed, representing neighborhoods such as Mid-City, Broadmoor, Algiers Point, Central City and Esplanade Ridge.

Naturally, many French Quarter spots are listed, as well as landmarks such as Gallier Hall, the Saenger, Orpheum and Carver theaters, the Superdome, several cemeteries and the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line. Even the first Schwegmann’s supermarket at 2222 St. Claude Ave. (now a Robert Fresh Market) was added in 2014.

Anyone can nominate a property for the National Register. The process begins with the state Division of Historic Preservation. It oversees nominations to the National Register, and its review board has the final say.

A property isn’t just added because of its age; it also must have historical or architectural significance. While it does qualify a property for federal tax incentives, a listing on the register doesn’t restrict use of the property or preserve it from demolition.

In addition, the city’s Historic District

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About 30 protestors outraged over Glaudi’s replacement picketed the TV station on Henderson’s first day.

A gifted and eloquent writer and broadcaster, Henderson’s star status was solidified when he became radio play-by-play announcer for the New Orleans Saints in 1986. He announced some of the team’s historic moments, including the 2010 NFC Championship win that sent the team to the Super Bowl, as he exclaimed that “pigs have flown, hell has frozen over. The Saints are on their way to the Super Bowl.” A few days later, Henderson proclaimed, “Get ready to party with the Lombardi, New Orleans,” when the Saints won Super Bowl XLIV. Last February, Henderson announced his retirement from the radio play-by-play position.

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Big Easy music and theater award winners announced

BY WILL COVIELLO | PHOTOS BY JOSE L. GARCIA TANK & THE BANGAS and the theater productions Jelly’s Last Jam, Hand to God and The Spider Queen all won multiple awards at the 30th annual Big Easy Entertainment Awards at the Orpheum Theater April 23. Varla Jean Merman hosted the ceremony, and award presenters included Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell, Bryan Batt, John Georges, owner of The Advocate and Gambit, Becky Allen and Big Freedia.

Special awards went to Entertainer of the Year Tank & the Bangas, Theater Person of the Year Emilie Whelan and Lifetime Achievement in Theater honoree David Raphel.

Tank & the Bangas also won Best R&B, and Tarriona “Tank” Ball won Best Female Performer. Lost Bayou Ramblers won Best Cajun/Zydeco and Best Album of 2017 for Kalenda. Several theater productions won multiple awards. Le Petit’s Production of Jelly’s Last Jam won Best Musical, Best Music Director and Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Musical. The Storyville Collective’s Hand to God won Best Play, Best Director of a Play and Best Actor in a Play. The NOLA Project’s original work The Spider Queen, produced in conjunction with the New Orleans Museum of Art in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, won Best Original Production, Best Actress and Best Costumes.

The event included performances by Irma Thomas, Wanda Rouzan, Germaine Bazzle, Best Blues winner Little Freddie King, Samantha Fish, Best Rock winner Sweet Crude, Best Rap/Bounce winner Delish Da Goddess and the casts of Fun Home, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Once on This Island.

The Big Easy Awards are sponsored by Gambit, Coleman Adler & Sons and Abita Brewing Co. The Big Easy Awards benefit the Foundation for Entertainment, Development and Education, which provides annual grants to artists and educators.

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SPECIAL AWARDS Entertainers of the Year Tank & the Bangas Theater Person of the Year Emilie Whelan Lifetime Achievement in Theater David Raphel

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Special Recognition Award Mark Cortale Best Female Performer Tarriona “Tank” Ball Best Male Performer Monk Boudreaux Best Album of 2017 Kalenda Lost Bayou Ramblers Best Traditional Jazz Aurora Nealand & The Royal Roses

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Best Blues Little Freddie King Best Rap/ Bounce Delish Da Goddess Best Heavy Metal/Punk Trampoline Team Best Rock Sweet Crude Best Country/Folk Leyla McCalla

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Best Zydeco/Cajun Lost Bayou Ramblers Best Latin/World Alexey Marti Best Emerging Artist Erica Falls

2012 Lifetime Achievement Award winner Carol Sutton took home the Best Supporting Actress in a Play award for Camino Real.

Best DJ/Electronica AF THE NAYSAYER Best Musical Jelly’s Last Jam, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre PAGE 14

1. Southern Rep Artistic Director Aimee Hayes presented this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to David Raphel.

2. NOLA Project’s The Spider Queen won Best Original Work and Best Costume Design. (l-r) James Bartelle (writer), Hope Bennett (costumes), Alex Martinez Wallace (writer), Jon Greene

(director) and Kenneth Thompson (puppets).

Freedia, who presented her with the award.

3. Best Blues winner Little Freddie King (center) with his band and fellow nominee Samantha Fish, who performed with them at the ceremony.

5. Best Supporting Actor in a Play Kyle Daigrepont and Best Actress in a Musical Troi Bechet.

4. Best Rap/Bounce winner Delish Da Goddess (left) with Big

6. The cast of Best Play winner Hand to God, which also won its director, Michael McKelvey, the Best Director of a Play award.

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Best Music Director Tom Hook, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

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Best Play Hand to God, The Storyville Collective

Best Set Design Eric Porter, Urinetown The NOLA Project/UNO

Best Director of a Musical Blake Coheley, Fun Home Southern Rep/ NOCCA Stage Company

Best Lighting Design Andrew F. Griffin, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Best Director of a Play Michael McKelvey, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Best Choreography Karen Hebert, Ashley Schmidt and Annie Taffaro, Billy Elliot — The Musical Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Best Costume Design Hope Bennett, Tony Fuemmeler and Kenneth Thompson, The Spider Queen The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art Best Sound Design Jason Doyle, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Idella Johnson, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Damien Moses, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

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9 7. Leslie Castay presented the Special Recognition Award to Mark Cortale for his work bringing Broadway stars to New Orleans with the series “Broadway @ NOCCA.” 8. John Georges, owner of The Advocate and Gambit, and singer Anais St. John presented Monk Boudreaux (center) with the Best Male Performer Award.

9. The cast of the National World War II Museum’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ won the Best Ensemble Award.

Best Ensemble Ain’t Misbehavin’, BB’s Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum Best Original Work of Theater The Spider Queen, James Bartelle and Alex Martinez Wallace The NOLA Project/NOMA Best University Production The Christians, C. Patrick Gendusa, director Loyola University New Orleans

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with a makeshift setup inside a classroom at Joseph S. Clark High School, Tank and the Bangas filmed a nearly acoustic, single-shot take of their song “Quick,” burst into laughter and sent it to NPR without a second thought. One of more than 6,000 submissions from across the U.S. for the network’s 2017 Tiny Desk concert series, the band was crowned the winner, making an unlikely introduction to a worldwide audience after several years of whirlwind tours and countless local gigs in their hometown of New Orleans.

“We submitted on the last day and it turned our world around,” Tarriona “Tank” Ball says during a rehearsal break the day before a summer tour. “We were performing in the littlest club in New Orleans or Alabama. We’d always have people who were nice and kind to us, who

were fans already — we’re used to setting little clubs on fire in the country, having us a good ol’ time, and packing out Chickie Wah Wah in New Orleans. We’ve been having these amazing people behind us, this unbelievable and undeniable influence. Tiny Desk gave us the platform that we wanted and truly needed.”

The band joined NPR’s Tiny Desk tour and performed on its concert web series and the radio program World Cafe, capturing a massive audience with its dynamic, exhilarating performance marrying R&B, funk, jazz and Ball’s powerful poetry. The band — Ball and Albert Allenback, Merell Burkett, Norman Spence and drummer and musical director Joshua Johnson — also caught the attention of Verve Forecast Records, which released a live EP in April and will add a full-length studio LP later this year. After wrapping dates in Australia, New

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“It’s not like it used to be,” Ball says. “It’s everything we used to do, only on 100. … It’s really a wild year and it’s just getting started. All of those years on tour performing for three or five people in the crowd has kind of prepared us for this moment, to be in front of 10,000, or even a million, who knows.”

stage,” Ball says. “We make a lot of noise. We know we have some records we want to make. We know what we want our live show to be. We know how we want our album to be. They’re actually very different things.”

The band teased its forthcoming album with the single “Smoke.

Netflix.Chill.,” a slow jams-inspired study of consent with Ball contorting her voice in roller coaster raps. (“I wanted to see where that could go,” Ball explained. “I’ve never writ-

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love with poetry at Sarah T. Reed High School, where she joined the school’s slam team. (“I took pride in being a wallflower — key word ‘flower,’” Ball told Gambit in 2016. “I was waiting for someone to bring that out of me.”)

Her father, a former football player, gave her the nickname “Tank” — his rock. She joined Team Slam New Orleans, which won two National Poetry Slam Championships in 2012 and 2013, and a de facto band emerged from an open-mic performance. There, the Bangas were born.

With Tank and the Bangas, Ball melded storytelling and social criticism with her agile voice, inhabiting multiple personalities flexing through playful raps and dramatic gospel-like highs while the band converges around her with carefully choreographed ease.

The band released a studio LP, 2013’s Think Tank, followed by the live album The Big Bang Theory: Live at Gasa Gasa in 2014. Both capture the band at opposite ends of its elastic spectrum, from the careful arrangements and details studding its in-studio efforts to the seemingly unpredictable theater of its live shows, where the band chases the rush of discovery with each note.

“Fifty percent is literally going off energy, and the other 50 is you have to learn, you have to know what you’re doing. It’s a lot of organized chaos,” Ball says. “If we play a show 1,000 times, then we know where each other is going to go. We feel comfortable to bring it somewhere else. If we’re about to get low right here, my girls know we’re about to get low. … It’s completely new. If we practice enough, know each other enough, you’ll be comfortable to go in another direction.”

On the studio version of “Quick,” Ball narrates a pseudo revenge fantasy, animated by synthesizer stabs before plunging into narcotic jazz, a typically mercurial arrangement that Tank and the Bangas turn into a colossal live performance.

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“These days we have much more fun in the studio than we ever did before,” she says. “We had so much fun working on our stage show that we never really worked on ourselves in the studio too much.

That was kind of new for us. The explorative moment of it was really fun. We still found how to really be ourselves in the studio as well, but we really calmed and organized that fire, instead of putting it everywhere we want.

“We found it to be a beautiful journey, one I was actually quite afraid of but one that I enjoy now.”

THE BAND WAS HESITANT TO SIGN WITH VERVE, the venerable jazz

label that houses its more unconventional Forecast imprint. Ball says the band was defiant — “We’re never gonna sign to something like that. That’s not all we do, and that’s what they do.”

“We got to know them, spend a lot of time with their crew — every time we played they’d send somebody there to get down with us, talk to us,” she says. “We got to be family before we ever were in business or in partnership. That’s what made that decision, what was to be really hard, quite clear. There was a couple of people trying to court us into going with them. Verve was a family. Their history was very rich, and they wanted to do something different. They wanted us because we’re on the front lines of letting people know that they weren’t just about one thing. That’s exciting to be that band.”

Ball says the album won’t necessarily depart from the sounds the band has worked to invent over the years, but, as with all things Tank and the Bangas, people should expect the unexpected.

“We didn’t raise up all this money to go to London, we didn’t stay cooped up in a car or one-bedroom apartment or literally struggle together to be the same people that gave you Tank and the Bangas,” Ball says. “We’re proud of that, and we hope everybody can get down with it. If not, get on with it. We were always wondering why the only person, to me at least, that made it out there was Lil Wayne. That’s the only person that the world knew that was really current.

“There isn’t only one representation of New Orleans. Jazz isn’t the only representation either. The underground, the underbelly, the poets, the people in the street, the people at Jazz Fest and Congo Square, that keep that going — it’s these New Orleanians and it’s the people who have always been a part of the community that make the music happen. There’s no other place I’m from, and it shows in my music and everything I do, and we bring it everywhere we travel.

“It’s different in that we have changed. It’s more dancey, it has more grooves in it — oh, man, I really like it. I’m not gonna lie. I drive around New Orleans and just listen to it. I don’t put on anyone else. It’s music I’ve been dying to hear for years now.”

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Headliners include Lionel Richie, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Smokey Robinson, Juanes, LL Cool J, Toots & The Maytals, Jack White, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Dianne Reeves, Savion Glover and many others. The Cultural Exchange Pavilion celebrates New Orleans’ tricentennial with performances by local bands, Mardi Gras Indians and visiting performers from Haiti, Spain, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Canada.

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THURSDAY Bonsoir, Catin 1:35 P.M.-2:35 P.M. FAIS DO-DO STAGE It’s often noted that this forward-thinking, Grammy-nominated Cajun ensemble has mostly female membership.

While there’s a feminine aesthetic at work in details like the six-piece’s lilting vocal harmonies, what’s more compelling is the way the group is using Cajun music traditions as a springboard for its own ensemble-focused, highly lyrical sound. Kristi Guillory is a folklorist who specializes in the culture of Acadiana, but she’s also an accordion prodigy and a poetic songwriter.

The English translations of lyrics from the band’s 2017 album L’Aurore are filled with gorgeous images and raw emotion. Guitarist Christine Balfa, the daughter of the late Cajun music revivalist Dewey Balfa, is the founder of Louisiana Folks Roots, a Lafayettebased nonprofit that produces educational and performance-related

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events aimed at sustaining the state’s Cajun and Creole heritage. Along with fiddler Anya Burgess, guitarist Maegan Berard, bassist Ashley Hayes and drummer Daniel Devillier, the group’s live shows can lure listeners into a dreamy, pop-inflected soundscape one moment and make them feel like they’re waltzing at an oldschool Mamou dancehall the next.

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band 1:50 P.M.-2:50 P.M. CULTURAL PAVILION STAGE 4:20 P.M.-5:20 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE The soft tones and playful energy vocalist Tatiana Eva-Marie employs while tackling the hot jazz styles of the 1930s and 1940s has earned her plenty of accolades both nationally and in her adopted hometown of New York City, where the Avalon Jazz Band is becoming a staple of a thriving gypsy jazz scene. The band’s clever arrangements and collectively strong chops currently are being funneled into a Paris-themed follow-up to its debut album Je Suis Swing, which features two lesser-known songs about Paris. The group also has two festival performances Friday.

Telmary y Habana Sana 1:55 P.M.-3:05 P.M. ACURA STAGE One of the most-talked about artists at last year’s festival was Havana, Cuba-born singer, rapper and spoken word artist Telmary Diaz, whose performances with her band Habana Sana featured modern and wildly

LIONEL RICHIE 5:30 P.M.-7:00 P.M. | ACURA STAGE evocative combinations of virtually every rhythm-centric genre associated with her native Cuba, spiked with heavy doses of soulful hip-hop and rock undercurrents. Given New Orleans’ often-cited “northernmost point in the Caribbean” status, it’s perhaps no surprise that she’s also performed the music of Louis Armstrong with Dr. John. Once an aspiring journalist, Diaz’s messages tend to be conscious and empowered — whether or not she’s singing in English.

Houston-based siblings Darrel, Rhea, Alic (aka Paco) and Ahjah Walls have scored consistent gospel chart-topping hits since they were first signed to Kirk Franklin’s Fo Yo Soul Recordings imprint shortly after he founded it in 2013. While their recorded sound draws heavily on contemporary R&B, including a high-gloss studio sound, the Walls’ powerful individual voices really shine when they perform acoustically. With any luck, this set will include both.

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Terrace Martin

3:55 P.M.-4:55 P.M. GOSPEL TENT Counting Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia among their best-known superfans,

4:15 P.M.-5:15 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT Terrace Martin went from being a jazz prodigy to producing records

for artists including Kendrick Lamar on the landmark To Pimp a Butterfly to fusing his own blend of jazz, funk, hip-hop and R&B. He is the son of jazz musicians — his father is a drummer, his mother a vocalist — and he learned to play keyboards and saxophone while growing up. As a producer, he’s worked with Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson and many others. The multi-instrumentalist straddles hip-hop, funk, soul and jazz on his own recordings. His 2016 album Velvet Portraits features Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Lalah Hathaway and other guests and was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B album. He followed up in 2017 with another funky, grooving mashup of genres, Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1.

His dry wit shines through in songs like his twangy ode to misplaced sentimentality, “I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You,” putting a unique spin on what he’s acknowledged is not quite country, not quite jazz and not quite rock. He obviously enjoys wordplay. His “large band” is not quite “big,” hence the name of his album It’s Not Big, It’s Large. With music that ranges from lush orchestrations to spare guitar melodies, the proud Houston native makes room for dark love stories whose meaning sneaks up on listeners.

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5:40 P.M.-7 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Toots Hibbert and his band, which has undergone a number of lineup changes, long have been credited with helping to create the sound that pushed his and other ska and rocksteady bands of the 1960s toward what became known as reggae.

The genre’s name is said to have been coined by the Maytals’ “Do the Reggay.” Now in his mid-70s, Hibbert continues to tour and record, showcasing his still-strong voice on songs plucked from his decades-spanning catalog. Recently, he collaborated with his grandson, rapper King Trevy, on the single “Ten Shillings.”

5:30 P.M.-7 P.M. ACURA STAGE Lionel Richie’s been a familiar face offstage during his stint as a judge on Season 16 of American Idol. But his Jazz Fest performances have shown he hasn’t skipped a beat.

In 2006, he filled in when Fats Domino canceled his appearance, and in 2010, he offered just the right balance of soulful Commodores nostalgia and throwbacks to his “All Night Long” ’80s material.

Toots and the Maytals

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Archie Shepp Quartet

5:40 P.M.-7 P.M. GENTILLY STAGE Part singer-songwriter and composer, part humorous storyteller, Lyle Lovett has a smooth-toned voice and mellow, often deadpan delivery that has subtly heightened the left-of-center vibe characterizing most of his musical narratives since the early ’80s.

5:45 P.M.-7 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT In the liner notes to I Hear the Sound, saxophonist Archie Shepp’s first live orchestral recording of his landmark 1972 album Attica Blues, he writes that “not much has changed” since he composed the music as a response to the deadly, racially

charged prison riots at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility. The new album was recorded months after Trayvon Martin was killed, and as artists across the country continue grappling with issues around race and police brutality in 2018, the music seems more charged than ever. Now 80, Shepp — whose work with John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor in the early 1960s laid the groundwork for his long and distinguished career as a bandleader — is uniquely positioned to comment on race relations in America through music. His foundational contributions to free jazz often invoked pan-African cultural references alongside liberal uses of soul, funk and blues. He also was a music educator for many decades, focusing on ethnomusicology via the “Revolutionary Concepts in African-American Music” and “Black Musician in the Theater” courses he taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst prior to his retirement from teaching. Shepp was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2016, and he retains plenty of the fire and sharp, improvisational creativity in live performances. Given Taylor’s recent passing and the feisty, spiritual nature of Shepp’s sound, it would be no surprise if he includes a tribute to the late pianist in this set.

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Desert Surf Films (Roll Call Records, 2016), which it recorded and released just 18 months into the band’s existence. Motel Radio was formed via scattered LSU music scenes and benefitted from personnel that mesh the styles of their native Austin, Texas and New Orleans. The group already has toured across the country and hit festivals including SXSW, Lollapalooza and Jazz Fest. The band is wise beyond its years, and its strengths are catchy pop hooks, soaring guitar leads and ethereal songs of love and loss — all delivered with an intention so genuine fans can almost touch it.

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FRIDAY Kumasi Afrobeat Orchestra 11:20 A.M.-12:10 P.M. JAZZ AND HERITAGE STAGE Rooted in the 9th Ward percussive prowess of Afro-Brazilian outfit BateBunda, a fixture of Mardi Gras parades, Kumasi came about during Carnival 2014 with the addition of elements of world beat, a la Fela Kuti, to that forerunner ensemble.

The name Kumasi is derived from the pre-colonial West African capital city of the Ashanti Empire and its vast cultural legacy. The group draws heavily from Kuti, the late Nigerian maestro whose groovy fusion of jazz, rock and traditional African rhythms formed its own genre and won over fans worldwide in the 1970s. Kumasi creates a rich, dense musical texture as spirit-lifting as it is hip-shaking. It performs original compositions by bandleader/drummer Logan Schutts and bassist Jonathan Solomon, and the band packs plenty of power, particularly in the frenetic flourishes of saxophonist/lead vocalist Stefan Poole. It has a symphony worth of swagger as it jams well past 10 minutes on tunes such as “Trinity Gritty” and soars to higher heights.

Motel Radio 11:20 A.M.-12:10 P.M. ACURA STAGE The darlings of an under-appreciated indie/pop-rock scene in New Orleans, this young quintet gained recognition with its debut album

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band 12:25 P.M.-1:25 P.M. FAIS DO-DO STAGE 3:15 P.M.-4:15 P.M. CULTURAL PAVILION STAGE For preview, see 1:50 p.m. Thursday.

Maggie Belle Band 1:50 P.M.-2:45 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE Maggie Belle moved from California to the Crescent City to start her career in nursing and follow her muse of becoming a singer-songwriter. Often mining her work in the medical field for material (“Ain’t no remedy for thoughts that won’t go away”), Belle forged a distinctive voice over the past five years and formed a funky band. A high-energy blend of R&B and funk with a palpable downtown New Orleans bohemian vibe takes listeners on a wild ride with heartfelt, powerfully sung lyrics. Belle is backed by drummer Cedar Howard, keyboardist Brian Scheller and bassist Max Hass, and the lineup takes a lively jazz turn with the addition of three horns for some live gigs. Belle gained attention with her debut EP Runnin’ Out in 2014, and likely will convert new fans in her Jazz Fest debut.

The Nth Power 1:35 P.M.-2:25 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Nikki Glaspie is a heavy hitter. She already had toured the world drumming for Beyonce for five years when she hopped behind the kit to propel Dumpstaphunk, turning heads and

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dropping jaws in audiences stunned that a non-New Orleans native could funk so hard while singing.

Formed on the spot during an impromptu jam session late one night during Jazz Fest 2012, The Nth Power brings together the divergent talents of Glaspie, bassist Nate Edgar (John Brown’s Body, Groovechild) and guitarist Nick Cassarino (Jennifer Hartswick Band, Big Daddy Kane).

The resulting soul/jam/rock powerhouse is as at home at nightclubs as on the hippie festival circuit.

Departing Dumpstaphunk on good terms to realize the big-time potential of this trio, Glaspie has taken her considerable talents to a higher level and found a musical home.

Betty Winn and One A-Chord 1:55 P.M.-2:40 P.M. GOSPEL TENT Betty Winn and her One A-Chord choir’s spirituals range from straightahead blues to funky Staples Singerslike grooves to reflective numbers that’ll just about knock anyone to their knees in a plea for redemption. The group performs classics of traditional African-American gospel — “Down by the Riverside,” “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” “Since I Laid My Burden Down” — and some secular pop standards such as “What a Wonderful World” and “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.”

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An immensely talented multi-instrumentalist, Barnes is a veteran of everything from straight-ahead jazz duos to otherworldly Carnival rhythms in the Mardi Gras Orchestra to playing accordion and harmonica on Paul Simon’s Graceland-era gems. With his long-running band, the Louisiana Sunspots, he plays an infectious blend of zydeco, gospel, blues and boogie.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 3:25 P.M.-4:40 P.M. ACURA STAGE Guitarist and songwriter Jason Isbell left the Drive-By Truckers more than a decade ago. Having found a sober life and settled down in his adopted home of Nashville, the Alabama native has taken the music world by storm since facing his demons and clearing his mind. Hailed by many critics as the savior of country music in this era of Pro Tools-produced pop, Isbell’s stripped-down sound, turn-of-phrase genius and earnest appeal has propelled him to the top of the charts. His last two albums, Southeastern (2013) and The Nashville Sound (2017), became instant classics. Whether pulling out an electric guitar to belt out Truckers-era (2001-2007) anthems or an acoustic guitar to strum more reflective recent numbers, Isbell shows why he’s considered among the best troubadours of our time.

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4:45 P.M.- 5:40 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Jupiter, aka Jean-Pierre Bokondji, lets his life’s journey play out in nearly every song. He was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo three years after the country gained its independence, but he grew up in Germany and discovered American soul music. It was later that he

embraced Congolese-style rumba, and the styles overlap in their devotion to rhythm and a penchant for bass lines that an audience can feel. So the music of Jupiter and his band Okwess has a frenetic drive, as everything from vocals to guitar to drums serve a rhythmic purpose. It’s an irresistible sound that’s attracted collaborators such as violinist Warren Ellis and Blur/Gorillaz guru Damon Albarn, both of whom appeared on Jupiter’s 2017’s LP Kin Sonic. Jupiter & Okwess also perform Saturday.

Beck 5:25 P.M.-6:55 P.M. ACURA STAGE Beck seems to be enjoying a mid-career renaissance. Not that he ever disappeared. Beck broke through with his 1994 album Mellow Gold, featuring the self-loathing anthem “Loser,” and followed with killer album after killer album, whether the inspiration was the hedonistic pursuits of Odelay (1996), the world-weary heartbreak of Sea Change (2002) or the infectious synth insanity of Colors (2017).

Born Bek David Campbell, the son of composer David Campbell (who played on Carole King’s Tapestry at age 23 before going on to work on hundreds of gold and platinum records), he now approaches the half-century mark with a seemingly refreshed zest for life and boundless energy for live performance.

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DJ Z-Trip 6 P.M.-7 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE LL Cool J isn’t just a friendly face on NCIS: Los Angeles. Indeed, Ladies Love Cool James and long have.

The sexy, shirtless torso that rocked America in the video for “Mama Said Knock You Out” still thrills, and that same 1990 album’s “Around the Way Girl” is as romantic as real rap gets. But beyond the pretty face and muscled body, LL is an ambassador for old-school hip-hop, from the fire and fury of his Def Jam debut Radio in 1985 to his breakthrough single a year later, “Going Back to Cali.” Here, he’s backed by DJ Z-Trip, a globetrotting festival-set phenom (Bonnaroo, Coachella) who’s also the producer credited as the creative force behind the mash-up movement that’s such a music-industry staple today.

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T’S FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS,” M.C. Taylor says with an aw-shucks air when asked about the quantum leap in popularity his band Hiss Golden Messenger has made over the past year.

During one of his country/rock/ folk band’s last stops in New Orleans, it opened a show for Drive-By Truckers at Tipitina’s in April 2017.

After its set Friday on Jazz Fest’s Fais Do-Do Stage, it kicks off a tour that will last through summer and includes performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and theaters across Europe. It took Taylor a while to get to this point.

“I’ve been making records for a really long time — 20 years — but a fair chunk of that at the beginning was me figuring out how to write a song,” Taylor, 42, says. “What the constituent parts are, how the parts fit together, along with searching for my voice and what my perspective was.”

Hiss Golden Messenger has forged a sound that would be at home on albums by early-era Wilco or Chris Stapleton. The band is

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER 4:30 P.M.-5:40 P.M. FRIDAY FAIS DO-DO STAGE capable of churning out rollicking good-times Americana, but its signature is twangy melodies of guitar, piano, harmonica and horns coupled with an off-kilter syncopation reminiscent of a maverick Grateful Dead streak. For many listeners, Hiss Golden Messenger is a vessel for the poetry of Taylor, whose worldview of beauty adrift is delivered in the quirky allure of his vocal delivery.

“People started paying attention when I started being honest with myself about what I could do with my music,” he says. “It wasn’t until I started putting myself on the line in my songs — being truthful with myself and my songs — that people started to care. People can

relate to someone being vulnerable. I think that’s a big part of what draws people to my music.”

Hiss Golden Messenger began to build momentum with its 2014 debut on Merge Records, Lateness of Dancers, and follow up Heart Like a Levee in 2016. In fall 2017, it released its ninth studio effort, Hallelujah Anyhow. The phrase used as a song and album title encapsulates Taylor’s “polite way of saying f—k it,” he says, an ethos he describes as “quite liberating.”

In response to the band’s recent success and treasure trove of relatively unknown material, Merge Records will release a four-LP box set in fall, and there are plans for a new album to be released in spring 2019.

“Our music draws a lot from traditional roots music, particularly music from the South,” Taylor says. “However far out my music may get, the bedrock is the stuff I discovered on the Anthology of American Folk Music or on dusty old records I found in a record store in the-middle-of-nowhere America 25 years ago. That stuff

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still sounds fresh because people were putting their sounds on the line in a really profound way on those records.”

A lifelong lover of poetry, Taylor says music exists for him because of songwriters such as John Prine. “(Prine is) the shining star in my constellation,” Taylor says, “an artist capable of revealing so much in such simple language that shows me the way life’s supposed to be.” Taylor also is a fan of The Meters. “Rhythm is everything,” he says.

“Most of the time it’s both,” he explains. “There’s something very ancient about setting poetry to rhythm, and that’s something that really draws me in.”

Hiss Golden Messenger’s success has allowed him to focus on his music and settle down in Durham, North Carolina with his two daughters.

“We’re here for a minute only,” he says. “But we can accomplish some beautiful things in the short time we’re given.”

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Leyla McCalla 12:30 P.M.-1:15 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION 3:05 P.M.-4:05 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE Leyla McCalla gives audiences a little bit of everything: singing in French, Haitian Creole and English while she switches from cello to tenor banjo to guitar. The HaitianAmerican multi-instrumentalist was a member of the Carolina Chocolate

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Drops string band when she first arrived in New Orleans, but she’s been on her own for two solo records since 2014. McCalla’s music blends genres as much as it does languages and instruments, with elements of Americana, jazz and Haitian folk music. An intimate Lagniappe set could be one of the last opportunities to catch this artist for a while — McCalla has been sharing pregnancy photos on Instagram and is expecting twins.

Jupiter & Okwess 1:20 P.M.-2:20 P.M. JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE 3:20 P.M.-4:20 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION See preview for 4:45 p.m.

Friday, May 4.

Feufollet 1:35 P.M.-2:30 P.M. FAIS DO-DO STAGE Audiences will hear traditional Cajun folk music when Feufollet takes the stage, but the band’s been tinkering in recent years. Its 2015 album Two Universes was the first one featuring current singer Kelli Jones-Savoy and keyboardist Andrew Toups, and it has explored a wider sonic range. “Tired of Your Tears” has outlaw country attitude fused into an Americana tune.

And while “Questions Sans Reponses”

features French lyrics, it sounds more like it could be a laid-back tune from ’90s alternative heroes, Stereolab.

Feufollet continues to stretch beyond regional roots while staying true to its background, and a 10-inch vinyl released last fall serves as a perfect example. The headliner is the band’s cover of Brian Eno’s “Baby’s on Fire,” a dark arthouse tune famously featuring a ripping guitar solo more suited to ’80s glam rock. It may seem odd, but Feufollet found a way to rein it all in while still doing the song justice — the trick seems to be bringing accordion and organ to the forefront.

The B-side to that gem? Naturally, Feufollet picked one of the oldest Cajun tunes around, “Clair de la lune.”

The East Pointers 2:55 P.M.-3:55 P.M. FAIS DO-DO STAGE 4:45 P.M.-5:45 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION The East Pointers deliver rootsy Celtic music, but from Canada. The reflections on life found in its lyrics combined with stellar musicianship has connected with audiences up north. This adoration has helped the band maintain a perfect record at the Juno Awards (sort of like a Canada-specific Grammys).

Both 2017’s What They Leave Behind and the band’s 2015 debut, Secret Victory, won the Traditional Roots Album category. The band

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is interviewed at the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage at 12:15 p.m.

Juanes 3:30 P.M.-4:45 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Juanes, aka Colombian musician Juan Esteban Aristizabal Vasquez, has had an impressive career trajectory.

It’s vaguely Justin Timberlake-ish: coming up in one genre, rising to the top of the charts, and then moving on to a solo career in a different style — arguably with more success.

Juanes never was in a boy band, but he played guitar for the Colombian metal/alternative rock outfit Ekhymosis in the ’90s before starting his solo career in 2000. Ever since, he’s been one of the most successful Spanishlanguage pop stars worldwide — amassing multiple Grammy awards and smashing Billboard records, including having an album on the Latin chart Top 10 for 92 straight weeks. He likely will captivate Jazz Fest listeners with rangy

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Dianne Reeves 4:15 P.M.-5:30 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT There’s not much jazz singer Dianne Reeves hasn’t achieved in her decades-long career. Her traditional vocal talents have become iconic, and she’s regarded as one of the best scatters of her generation. This helped land her a role as a singer in the George Clooney-led movie Good Night, and Good Luck, and Reeves’ work on the soundtrack earned a Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy — one of five for the performer, including one for her most recent album, 2015’s Beautiful Life.

Right before her Jazz Fest appearance, Reeves is set to add one more item to her resume. The National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Masters award is among the genre’s highest honors, and Reeves will accept hers this month.

Aerosmith 5:30 P.M.-7 P.M. ACURA STAGE ”Jaded” may have been a top Billboard hit this century, and Steven Tyler has appeared on American Idol and in Super Bowl commercials recently. But Aerosmith is every bit the legacy act for which Jazz Fest is increasingly becoming known. While Tyler isn’t showing many signs of slowing down — he turned 70 but has increasingly toured as a solo performer in recent years — Aerosmith doesn’t play as many stadium shows as it once did. Its first album is approaching its 50th anniversary, and even the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction is old enough to drive at this point. So, a 90-minute headlining set is not something to take lightly. The band likely will dust off the Toys in the Attic, “Walk This Way” and “Dream On” and hit some material from its later “Crazy” years.

Cage The Elephant 5:40 P.M.-7 P.M. GENTILLY STAGE Even if the band’s name doesn’t evoke the same reaction as alternative radio stalwarts Beck or Mumford & Sons, Cage The Elephant has become every bit the same type of heavyweight over the last decade.

In fact, the Bowling Green, Kentucky band shared top billing with those

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acts at an iHeartMedia festival to kick off 2018. (Beck’s performance preceded Cage The Elephant’s closing set.)

Cage The Elephant sonically has more in common with an act like The Black Keys, however. It blends a bit of blues, a bit of Americana and a whole lot of rock. From its early hits such as “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” to standouts such as “Trouble” from more recent albums, the band delivers front-and-center bass lines, booming drums and the kind of slightly shouty, just-off-mic vocal work many festival attendees desire.

The band spent 2017 touring a stripped-down show filled with back catalog favorites, but Cage The Elephant’s Instagram has been bursting with studio images this year. Chances of new tunes sneaking into the playlist on Saturday seem good; either way, expect the band’s big and bold sound to return in full force, given this set will be among its first 2018 performances.

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Lionel Richie

5:30-7:00

Big Sam’s Funky Nation

3:35-4:45

Telmary y Habana Sana

1:55-3:05

Stooges Brass Band

12:35-1:25

Naughty Professor

11:25-12:10

ACURA STAGE

Lyle Lovett and his Large Band

5:40-7:00

Old Crow Medicine Show

3:50-5:05

Honey Island Swamp Band

2:35-3:25

Paul Sanchez Rolling Road Show

1:25-2:15

Gal Holiday

12:20-1:05

Toots & The Maytals

5:40-7:00

Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers

4:00-5:00

Omari Neville & The Fuel

featuring

Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk

2:30-3:40

New Soul, Inc.

1:20-2:05

Higher Heights Reggae

12:15-1:00

Shaun Ward Xperience

11:15-11:55

11:15-noon

Alex McMurray and His Band

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

GENTILLY STAGE

Marion Rampa

featuring vocalist

Archie Shepp Quartet

5:45-7:00

Terrace Martin

4:15-5:15

Tonya BoydCannon, Yolanda Robinson and JarellB

featuring

The Art of Voice

presents

Larry Sieberth

2:50-3:50

Jeremy Davenport

1:35-2:30

Pay Casey and The New Sound

12:25-1:15

Delgado Community College Jazz Ensemble

11:15-noon

WWOZ JAZZ TENT

THURSDAY, MAY 3

Blind Boys of Alabama

5:45-7:00

Walter Wolfman with Ivan, Stanton and James

5:00-5:15

Walter “Wolfman” Washington

featuring

Joe Krown Trio

3:55-4:55

John Mooney & Bluesiana

2:40-3:30

Toronzo Cannon

1:30-2:20

J. Monque ’D Blues Revue

12:20-1:10

Southern University Baton Rouge Jazzy Jags

11:15-noon

BLUES TENT

Wendell Brunious & the New Orleans Allstars

5:45-6:45

Banu Gibson with guest Vince Giordano

4:25-5:25

Preservation Brass

3:00-4:00

Jamil Sharif

1:45-2:40

Smoking Time Jazz Club

12:30-1:25

The Tangiers Combo

11:20-12:10

ECONOMY HALL TENT

Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band

6:00-7:00

Hot Rize

4:25-5:40

The Revelers

3:00-4:00

Bonsoir, Catin

1:35-2:35

The Rayo Brothers

12:25-1:15

Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys

11:15-12:05

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

Caesar Brothers FunkBox

5:45-6:45

Pocket Aces Brass Band

4:15-5:20

Ivoire Spectacle

featuring

Seguenon Kone

3:00-3:50

Mardi Gras Indians

White Cloud Hunters

1:55-2:35

Santiman and Garifuna Generation

12:40-1:35

Real Untouchable Brass Band

11:20-12:20

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Nineveh Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:05-6:45

Evangelist Jackie Tolbert & the Gospel Ensemble

5:10-5:55

The Walls Group

3:55-4:55

McDonogh 35 High School Gospel Choir

2:50-3:35

The Jones Sisters

1:55-2:40

Landry Walker Charter High School Choir

1:00-1:45

Isabel Davis

12:05-12:50

Eleanor McMain Singing Mustangs

11:15-11:55

GOSPEL TENT

Santiman and Garifuna Generation

4:45-5:45

Mardi Gras indians

4:15-4:35

Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots

featuring

Le Kér Creole

3:10-4:05

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

1:50-2:50

Seguenon Kone featuring Ivoire Spectacle

12:40-1:25

Harmonouche

11:30-12:20

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Bantam Foxes

5:15-6:00

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

4:20-5:20

Susan Cowsill

3:05-4:00

Jamaican Me Breakfast Club

1:50-2:45

with guests from Guatemala

Patrice Fisher & Arpa

12:35-1:30

Clay Parker and Jodi James

11:30-12:15

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Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit

3:25-4:40

Tank and the Bangas

3:00

1:55-2:55

Darcy Malone and The Tangle

12:35-1:30

DJ Z-Trip

featuring

LL Cool J

6:00-7:00

The Soul Rebels

4:20-5:20

Jupiter & Okwess

2:55-3:55

The Nth Power

1:35-2:25

12:20-1:10

Little Freddie King Blues Band

12:20-1:10

Brian Seeger’s Organic Trio

Rahsaan Patterson Celebrate Al Jarreau

with special guest

Marcus Miller

5:45-7:00

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

4:10-5:15

Germaine Bazzle

2:50-3:45

Wess Anderson Quintet

Ruthie Foster

5:45-7:00

C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band

4:15-5:15

James Andrews and the Crescent City All-Stars

2:50-3:50

with special guest Barbara Lynn

Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band

1:30-2:30

The Pure‘D Blues Group featuring Butch Mudbone

Tipitina’s Interns under the direction of Donald Harrison Jr.

1:30-2:30

11:15-noon

11:15-noon

Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony

5:45-6:45

Don Vappie’s Tribute to King Oliver

Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas

6:00-7:00

Hiss Golden Messenger

4:30-5:40

Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots

Players Ella and Louie Tribute Band

4:20-5:25

3:00-4:00

Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band

1:45-2:35

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

12:25-1:25

La Bande de Plaquemine Brûlèe

11:10-12:05

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

3:00-3:55

Shake ’Em Up Jazz Band

1:50-2:40

Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans

12:35-1:30

11:20-12:10 New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra

ECONOMY HALL TENT

Kumbuka African Dance & Drum Collective

5:45-6:45

New Breed Brass Band

4:15-5:20

Mardi Gras indians

79rs Gang

3:00-3:50

Herbert McCarver & The Pin Stripe Brass Band

1:30-2:35

Mardi Gras indians

Big Chief Bird & the Young Hunters

12:30-1:10

Kumasi

11:20-12:10

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:05-6:45

Pastor Terry Gullage and Kingdom Sound

5:10-5:55

Stars of Heaven

3:55-4:55

Glen David Andrews and the Treme Choir

2:50-3:35

Betty Winn & One A-Chord

1:55-2:40

1:00-1:45 Josh Kagler & Harmonistic Praise Crusade

Pastor Tyrone Jefferson

12:05-12:50

The Gospel Inspirations of Boutte

11:15-11:55

GOSPEL TENT

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Sheryl Crow

5:45-7:00

Aaron Neville

4:15-5:15

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

2:50-3:50

Marcia Ball

1:35-2:25

Zachary Richard

New Orleans Hip Hop Experience featuring Fiend, 3D Natee, Cypher, DJ Keith Scott and Cool Nasty Band

12:25-1:15

Motel Radio

12:25-1:15

Caren Green & Cornbread

CC Adcock + The Lafayette Marquis

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11:20-12:05

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WWOZ JAZZ TENT

Jupiter & Okwess

4:45-5:45

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

3:15-4:15

Mardi Gras Indians

2:45-3:05

Don Vappie’s Tribute to King Oliver

1:40-2:35

with guest Antonio Hidalgo

John Lawerence and Ven Pa’ Ca Flamenco

12:35-1:20

Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band

11:30-12:15

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Hot Club of New Orleans

5:35-6:30

Sean Bruce

4:20-5:15

Naydja CoJoe & the Lagniappe Section

3:05-4:00

Maggie Bell Band

1:50-2:45

Mehnaz Hoosein & Andrew McLean

featuring

JIVA-NOLA

12:40-1:30

The Tumbling Wheels

11:30-12:20

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Aerosmith

5:30-7:00

Cowboy Mouth

3:50-4:40

Dumpstaphunk

Ivan Neville’s

2:25-3:25

Walter Trout

1:05-2:00

Lost Bayou Ramblers

Remedy

11:30

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ACURA STAGE

Anita Baker

5:30-7:00

Juanes

3:30-4:45

New Cupid, 5th Ward Weebie, DJ Jubilee, Partners-NCrime, and Ricky B with DJ Raj Smoove

featuring

The Bounce

1:45-2:55

Corey Henry & Treme Funktet

12:30-1:20

Denisia & Back Row

11:20-12:05

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

Sean Jones Quartet

5:55-7:00

Diane Reeves

4:15-5:30

Astral Project

2:50-3:50

James Rivers Movement

1:40-2:30

Blondie’s Jazz Jam

12:25-1:20

Delbert McClinton & SelfMade Men

5:45-7:00

Deacon John

4:15-5:15

New Orleans Classic R&B Legends featuring Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Wanda Rouzan, and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson with Bobby Cure & the Poppa Stoppas

2:35-3:45

Lurrie Bell and his Chicago Blues Band

1:25-2:10

Charmaine Neville Band

12:15-1:05

Major Handy & the Louisiana Blues Band

11:15-noon

11:15-12:05

Jason Weaver Band

BLUES TENT

WWOZ JAZZ TENT

Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

5:45-6:45

Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

4:20-5:25

Gregg Stafford & His Young Tuxedo Brass Band

3:05-4:00

Tim Laughlin

1:50-2:45

Lars Edegran & the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

12:35-1:30

Louis Ford & His New Orleans Flairs

11:20-12:10

ECONOMY HALL TENT

with guests

The Lee Boys

5:45-7:00

Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble

4:20-5:20

The East Pointers

2:55-3:55

Feufollet

1:35-2:30

T.K. Hulin and Gregg Martinez

Warren Storm — Willie Tee & Cypress Band

12:25-1:15

Walter Mouton & the Scott Playboys

11:15-12:05

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

High Steppers Brass Band

6:05-6:55

Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias

4:55-5:45

Storyville Stompers Brass Band

3:45-4:35

Mariachi Jalisco US

2:40-3:25

Jupiter & Okwess

1:20-2:20

Vivaz!

12:10-1:00

Mardi Gras Indians

Fi Yi Yi & the Mandingo Warriors

11:15-11:55

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Mass Choir

6:05-6:45

Voices of Peter Claver

5:10-5:55

Tamela Mann

3:55-4:55

Jermaine Landrum & The Abundant Praise Revival Choir

2:50-3:35

Pastor Mitchell J. Stevens

1:55-2:40

E’Dana

1:00-1:45

Connie & Dwight Fitch and the St. Raymond and St. Leo the Great Choir

12:05-12:50

New Hope Baptist Church Mass Choir

11:15-11:55

GOSPEL TENT

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Cage The Elephant

5:40-7:00

The Revivalists

3:40-5:00

Better Than Ezra

2:05-3:10

Boyfriend

12:45-1:40

Stoop Kids

11:20-12:15

GENTILLY STAGE

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The East Pointers

4:45-5:45

Jupiter & Okwess

3:20-4:20

New Orleans Secondline

2:55-3:10

Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

1:50-2:45

Mardi Gras Indians

1:25-1:40

Leyla McCalla

12:30-1:15

Julio y Cesar Band

11:30-12:10

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Ark-LA-Mystics

Kenny Bill Stinson & the

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Kristen Diable & The City

4:25-5:20

Leyla McCalla

3:05-4:05

Julio y Cesar Band

1:50-2:45

EmiSunshine

12:40-1:30

Ingrid Lucia

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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

5:45-7:00

Jack White

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Galactic

1:45-2:50

Anders Osborne

Frankie Beverly

featuring

Maze

5:25-6:55

DJ Captain Charles

4:45-5:05

Smokey Robinson

3:30-4:40

DJ Captain Charles

3:05-3:20

Rebirth Brass Band

2:00-3:00

Walter Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters

12:35-1:35

Sierra Green & The Soul Machine

11:20-12:10

Johnny Sansone

Robin Barnes & The FiyaBirds

Savion Glover

5:40-7:00

The E-Collective

featuring

Terence Blanchard

4:05-5:10

John Boutté

2:40-3:40

Ellis Marsalis

1:30-2:20

Joe Dyson

Buddy Guy

5:40-6:45

Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters

4:10-5:10

Mr. Sipp

2:45-3:45

David Specter

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Glen David Andrews

1:30-2:25

Jonathon “Boogie” Long

12:20-1:10

11:15-noon

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The Pfister Sisters

5:45-6:45

Girtley

Cynthia

featuring

Dr. Michael White’s Tribute to Billie and Dede Pierce

4:20-5:20

George French & the New Orleans Storyville Band

3:00-4:00

Tommy Sancton’s New Orleans Legacy Band

1:40-2:40

Leroy Jones & New Orleans Finest

12:25-1:20

Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound

11:15-12:05

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Calexico

5:45-7:00

Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys

4:15-5:15

The Iguanas

2:55-3:55

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

1:30-2:30

Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie

12:20-1:10

T’Monde

11:15-noon

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

Mardi Gras Indians

Hard Head Hunters

5:50-6:45

Kinfolk Brass Band

4:25-5:25

Javier Olondo and AsheSon

3:00-4:05

Lakou Mizik

1:35-2:35

Young Pinstripe Brass Band

12:20-1:15

Chief Howard Miller with the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Rhythm Section

11:20-12:05

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL

6:05-6:50

Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise

5:10-5:55

The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas

3:55-4:55

The Zion Harmonizers

2:50-3:35

Ty Morris & H.O.W.

1:55-2:40

New Orleans Spiritualettes

1:00-1:45

The Mighty Travelers

12:05-12:50

Audrey Ferguson & The Voices of Distinction

11:15-11:55

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Steve Miller Band

5:20-7:00

The Radiators @40

3:15-4:35

George Porter, Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners

1:40-2:40

Mia Borders

12:25-1:15

Flow Tribe

New Orleans Suspects

12:25-1:20

11:15-12:05

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CONGO SQUARE STAGE

featuring

The Zion Harmonizers

5:05-5:45

of Haiti

Lakou Mizik

3:40-4:40

Louisiana Irish-Italian Parade

3:20-3:25

Dr. Michael White and Gregg Stafford

Heritage Allstar Brass Band

2:10-3:10

Mardi Gras Indians

1:40-1:55

Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys

12:50-1:35

Native Nations Intertribal Pow Wow

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Bobby Lounge

5:40-6:30

Sasha Masakowski “Art Market”

4:30-5:20

Bill Kirchen

3:15-4:10

The War and Treaty

1:55-2:55

José Fermin & Merengue4FOUR

12:45-1:35

Javier Olondo and AsheSon Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music

12:25-12:40

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Javier Olondo and AsheSon 11:30 A.M.-12:20 P.M. CULTURAL PAVILION 3 P.M.-4:05 P.M. JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Javier Olondo has been applying his classical guitar skills to genres including jazz, ancient music, folk and more for three decades. But when he got a call to play a set of entirely Cuban music shortly after Hurricane Katrina, he hestitated. “I had never publicly performed Cuban traditional music, so my first reaction was to say no,” Olondo writes in his band biography.

But as other musicians pressed him on the tunes they’d play — classics of the style such as “La Negra Tomasa,” “El Manisero” and “El Cuarto de Tula” — Olando knew the parts.

AsheSon has been bringing Cuban music to clubs and festivals ever since. Whether on hand percussion, timbales or a variety of bells, Alexey Marti displays a rare combination of technique, showmanship, creativity and pace. Both drum and guitar solos during an AsheSon set can be the highlight of any festival afternoon. The band also features Guatemalan-born vocalist Zelia Zea.

Mia Borders 12:25 P.M. 1:15 P.M. GENTILLY STAGE Guitarist Mia Borders blends blues, funk, rock and story-oriented folk.

On her latest album, 2016’s Fever Dreams, she deftly dances between

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genres and even finds some Latin rhythms (the title track) and pop sensibilities (“Sugar in My Soul”).

Borders released a single off the album that expands the artist’s repertoire. “Find Another Lover” showcases Borders’ sultry side, starting off as a pseudo late-night lounge tune before surprising listeners with a chorus full of blunt lyrics followed by a laid-back rap verse featuring fellow New Orleanian Alfred Banks. She’s been taking requests via Facebook for this Jazz Fest set, and Borders likely will offer something for every kind of festivalgoer.

Lakou Mizik 1:35 P.M.-2:35 P.M. JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE 3:40 P.M.-4:40 P.M. CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION The impact of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti continues to be felt today. The first brick for the new National Palace was laid in January, just the latest reminder of ongoing efforts to rebuild. Enter Lakou Mizik, a multigenerational band out of Portau-Prince that brings together Haitian legends such as Sanba Zao (aka Louis Lesly Marcelin) and younger rising musicians including Steeve Valcourt, son of Haitian blues and roots music star Boulo Valcourt. The group’s mission is to bring the country’s vibrant music culture to the world and preserve and spread its musical traditions as the nation continues to rebuild.

So far, this effort has resulted in 2016’s Wa Di Yo, an album blending the many influences — African, French, Caribbean and American — that meet within Haitian culture. And no matter one’s musical tastes, it’s easy to recognize the music as communal, combining bright guitar riffs, choruses and a polyrhythmic base to keep both crowds and musicians moving.

The War and Treaty 1:55 P.M.-2:55 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE The War and Treaty has a backstory straight out of Hollywood. Michael Trotter Jr. was a soldier deployed in Iraq who was part of a unit encamped in one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces.

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Savion glover

BY JENNIFER ODELL

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T SAVION GLOVER’S HOOFERZCLUB SCHOOL for tap dancing, students are warned that they won’t be taught “the fancy steps.” In fact, the website for the Newark, N.J.based school instructs students to bring a pen and a pad of paper to class for their first year or two — and not to expect to do a lot of dancing.

“Our approach is to teach not necessarily how to be a tap dancer, but how to express yourself through the dance,” Glover says.

For Glover, that means cultivating what he calls a “holistic” understanding of tap, including its long history as an American art form. He wants students to become adept at expressing themselves from a holistic perspective.

“There are different reasons that we have all these abilities and this talent,” Glover says. “You have to be able to identify with how the person needs to learn, what they need to learn, what they want to learn. Then you have to learn to teach that inside whatever your curriculum or protocol is. You can have someone coming to your cooking class but they might need help in speech therapy. How would you help them learn how to be a better speaker in a cooking class?”

Glover, who performs with his quartet in the WWOZ Jazz Tent May 6, employs a similar kind of integrated thinking with his own artistic expression. Long regarded as the greatest tap dancer of his generation, the Newark native first explored his interest in rhythm at age 3, when his mother enrolled him in Suzuki method drum lessons. By 7, he was performing for audiences with a band. After playing at a benefit concert for a dance school in New York City, he saw veteran tapper Lon Chaney perform. Chaney suggested he try tap, given his precocious drumming skills. Glover did and by age 11, he was dancing on Broadway.

His talent continued to blossom as he studied with tap legends

including Gregory Hines. Glover’s choreography Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk, a hip-hop- and funk-heavy, musical and dance-based retelling of African-American history since the era of slavery, drew worldwide acclaim within and outside of the world of dance.

Now 44, Glover has retained a drummer-like approach to tap that’s lent itself to collaborations with jazz artists including drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Ron Carter.

“Music has always been a part of my life, whether it’s sounds from the church or sounds from the club or sounds from the disco or sounds from the street,” Glover says, adding that everything he does ultimately comes from improvisation, which allows him to distill everything he’s experienced into his work. Sound is essential to that process.

Even the way Glover speaks on the phone is pointed and rhythmic, as if he’s devoting equal attention to the way his words sound as he is to their meaning.

But not everything about his gentle voice is like his famously hard-hitting dance style.

“I’ve never been afraid to try a dance move,” he says. “I’ll jump off the roof. I’ll jump and be in the air and then figure out how I’m gonna land. I always have a little extra testosterone.”

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fill their potential as dancers, Glover balances out his fearlessness about the form’s physical demands with a respect for the importance of challenging himself on a daily basis.

“I am experiencing moments now more than I have in my life before,” he says. “I have to push myself in areas of coping, in areas of humanity. If I’m out riding my dirt bike, and I can’t do a stunt, then I’m gonna keep trying. Same thing if I come to the dance, it’s not like I have to push myself, it’s a natural thing. So I push myself in other ways.”

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“Military Idol,” its annual version of American Idol.

After his discharge, Trotter met performer Tanya Blount. The two fell in love, got married and used their experience to start The War and Treaty.

Their soulful variety of Southern folk blends R&B, gospel, roots and more, and it tends to recruit fans upon first encounter. The husband-and-wife act released its debut, Down to the River, last summer, and the vocal work alone will make it obvious why they’re on the Jazz Fest schedule. Former Gambit Editor Michael Tisserand interviews the couple at noon at the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage.

Smokey Robinson 3:30 P.M.-4:40 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE What can one say about Smokey Robinson? After he and the Miracles signed to Motown in 1959 and started churning out hits, he became synonymous with the label. His nearly 60-year career has spanned a long list of chart-topping songs, including “Cruisin’,” “The Tracks of My Tears,” “I Second That Emotion,” “Being With You,” “Going to a GoGo,” and “The Tears of a Clown,” and Robinson wrote many songs that became hits for other artists as well. Expect him to draw from his own contributions to the great American songbook while sprinkling in a few classic R&B covers to boot.

Jack White 3:35 P.M.-5:15 P.M. ACURA STAGE Jack White has become a musical chameleon. Want hard-driving, near-punk college radio rock? He can dig into the White Stripes’ archives and leave “Seven Nation Army” to marching bands and stadium DJs. Prefer sunny afternoon-ready classic rock? He can draw from The Raconteurs stage of his career. He’s collaborated with everyone from Loretta Lynn to Beyonce to Alicia Keys and has pushed this creative exploration further in recent years. His latest solo output dips into blues, Nashville alt-country and the guitar-heavy rock underlying much of his work.

White’s new album, Boarding House Reach, will be barely a month old when he takes the stage at Jazz Fest, but it should lead to a genre-jumping performance.

The album features unexpected drum machines and synth lines framing White’s penchant for corralling a strong riff, drum beats and anthemic organs. A song like “Hypermisophoniac” mashes genres and reveals avant-garde ideas that might seem better suited to the Jazz Tent. The possibility for such occasions being mingled with crowd electrifiers like “Sixteen Saltines” or “Lazaretto” should make for a memorable afternoon.

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The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas 3:55 P.M.-4:55 P.M. GOSPEL TENT She may be New Orleans’ Queen of Soul, but Irma Thomas has long been the city’s first lady of R&B and blues as well, known for tunes including “It’s Raining,” “Ruler of My Heart” and “Don’t Mess With My Man.” She’s said that singing in church helped kickstart and shape her now decades-long career. During the 1990s, Thomas released several gospel albums in between jazzier works. Her “Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas” performances at Jazz Fest grew out of tributes to the great Mahalia Jackson, but Thomas is the draw in her own right.

Steve Miller Band 5:20 P.M.-7 P.M. GENTILLY STAGE During a 2004 Jazz Fest set, Steve Miller held up and described a purple guitar with mirrors and various gadgets that helped produce distortion effects. “That’s what the sixties were like,” he told the crowd.

The Steve Miller Band is not a jam band, but it sort of serves as one for some generations. Like Phish and The Grateful Dead, its touring has helped maintain a strong following for shows with laid-back festival vibes. Unlike many acts of their generation, Steve Miller and company continue to tour, co-headlining with Peter Frampton this summer.

And after all these years, classics including “Swingtown,” “The Joker,” “Take the Money and Run,” “Rock’N Me” and others still can send an adoring crowd into a let-the-music-move-you frenzy.

Calexico 5:45 P.M.-7 P.M. FAIS DO-DO STAGE 2018’s The Thread That Keeps Us (Anti), the ninth album from Southwestern indie rock band Calexico, continues the band’s cosmic wayfaring through sprawling guitar sounds, subdued, wiry funk and folk music, melding touches of conjunto, cumbia, mariachi and tejano into its unique American palette. The band played Jazz Fest in 2013, on the heels of its 2012 release Algiers, recorded in that neighborhood’s The Living Room studio, where the band immersed itself in Latin and New Orleans sounds and the universe between them. Five years later, the group returns to Jazz Fest after absorbing the sunrise hues of Mexico City, where the band partially recorded 2015’s Edge of the Sun, and after simmering in North California for Thread, weaving social and political commentary into its artful deconstruction of American music.

Information New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 11 A.M.-7 P.M. MAY 3-6 FAIR GROUNDS RACE COURSE & SLOTS, 1751 GENTILLY BLVD. WWW.NOJAZZFEST.COM

TICKETS • Single-day tickets cost $70 in advance, $80 at the gate. Tickets for Thursday, May 3, are available at the gate that day for $50 to patrons with a valid Louisiana photo ID (limited to two per person).

• Child’s ticket $5 (available at the gate only; ages 2-10; adult must accompany child).

• Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www. ticketmaster.com and by calling (800) 745-3000. Tickets can be purchased in advance in person at the Smoothie King Center box office. Advance purchase-priced tickets are available through May 2. All Jazz Fest tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges.

• VIP ticket information is available at www.nojazzfest.com.

• Re-entry to the Fair Grounds is allowed only with a WWOZ Brass Pass, Foundation Gala Pass and Big Chief, Grand Marshal and Krewe of Jazz Fest VIP passes.

TRANSPORTATION • There are taxi stands at Stallings Playground (1600 block of Gentilly Boulevard) and Alcee Fortier Park (3100 block of Esplanade Avenue).

• Gray Line operates continuous round-trip transportation to the festival from the Sheraton Hotel (500 Canal St.), Steamboat Natchez Dock (Toulouse Street at the Mississippi River) and New Orleans City Park (Wisner Boulevard at Filmore Avenue) from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for $20 from downtown or $15 from City Park. A one-way ticket from the festival to downtown is $10. For more information call (504) 569-1401 or (800) 233-2628 or visit www. graylineneworleans.com/jazz-festexpress.html.

• Bicycle parking is available near the Gentilly Boulevard and Sauvage Street entrances.

JAZZ FEST PERMITS • Small bags and backpacks (17 by 12 by 10 inches) and 12-pack soft coolers • Single, collapsible chairs • Wheelchairs and medical scooters • Push strollers for children • Blankets and small tarps not exceeding 6 by 8 feet • Factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter) • Hand-held, personalsized umbrellas JAZZ FEST PROHIBITS • Large or hard-sided coolers • Rolling bags • Wagons and carts • Pets • Glass • Personal tents • Shade canopies or beach or pole-style umbrellas • Athletic games • Large chairs with rockers, foot rests, side tables, etc.

• Bicycles or other wheeled personal transport devices (e.g. skateboards, hoverboards) • Video- and audiorecording equipment • Unauthorized vending • Weapons, illicit drugs and other contraband • Outside beverages except factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter) • Inserting stakes, poles or any other objects into the ground, or use of ropes, cords, tape, etc. to reserve space • Inflatable items, drones ON THE GROUNDS • Jazz Fest food and drink vendors are cash only. ATMs are available on the grounds.

• Jazz Fest is handicapped accessible. Call (504) 410-6104 for information.

• There are two medical tents on the festival grounds. One is near the edge of the track between the Gentilly and Fais Do-Do stages; the other is on the edge of the track near the Acura display tent.

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Tchoup sticks ASIAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT LUVI

(5236 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-6053340; www.luvirestaurant.com) is now open in Uptown.

The spot from longtime Sake Cafe chef Hao Gong serves creative dishes with a wide range of Asian influences.

Gong was raised in Shanghai, and he named the restaurant after his

After 25 years, Emeril Lagasse’s NOLA has a new look

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund EMERIL LAGASSE’S FRENCH QUARTER mainstay NOLA unveiled some major changes last fall on the cusp of its 25th anniversary.

The restaurant was closed for two months for a renovation that included both a complete makeover of the physical space and the menu. The restaurant now features an expansive bar space downstairs with exposed brick walls and bright neon accents. The lighting on the ground floor is glaring, but the upstairs dining space overlooking the restaurant still carries a hint of the prior design’s upscale ambience and feels more elegant.

Chef de cuisine Philip Buccieri consulted with Emeril’s Director of Development David Slater on the menu, much of which seems similar to the global approach taken by its sister restaurant, Meril, which has had considerable success since opening in September 2016. The dishes at NOLA aren’t as internationally diverse, and the updates reflect the myriad culinary influences that have left their marks on New Orleans’ cuisine.

Light and refreshing miso cobia bundles draw inspiration as much from the local Vietnamese community as from Gulf waters. Small hunks of fish come wrapped in lettuce leaf cups, topped with kataifi (shredded, crispy phyllo strands) and drizzled with gingery dressing. Crispy, bronzed links of alligator sausage are folded into fluffy steamed bao and topped with sweet hoisin glaze, kimchi and cilantro — a snack-sized Cajun banh mi.

There are a few of the celebrity chef’s classics and holdovers from the previous menu, including decadent barbecue shrimp, stuffed and fried chicken

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534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/ nola-restaurant

wings and a massive grilled pork chop.

NOLA’s previous approach felt more serious, and the current take seems like a loosening of the tie. It’s more contemporary and less buttoned-up.

Smoked crab cheesecake boulettes are a whimsical take on a Gulf seafood classic that are given playful nudges of color and flavor. The golden-fried nuggets are attached to the claw and ooze cheese. A bright green onion coulis and smattering of cherry tomatoes provide a zesty counter to the richer elements on the plate.

For a neighborhood prone to festivities and imbibing, this lighter-spirited approach fits the scene. The restaurant’s social atmosphere is driven by a shared and small-plate concept, including plenty of pizzas from a wood-burning oven. The crusty pies come flecked with char marks, and there’s an earthy roasted mushroom version with a creamy Alfredo base and crisp, nutty heaps of arugula and cracklings.

Regional flavors and ingredients figure prominently. Spicy hot frog legs speak to diners with a distinct Nashville twang. Blisteringly hot and

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Chef de cuisine Philip Buccieri serves creative small plates at Emeril Lagasse’s NOLA. P H OTO B Y C H E R Y L G E R B E R

crunchy deep-fried legs are served on buttery Texas toast points topped with sweet bread-and-butter pickles and are served with garlicky yogurt. Thinly shaved slices of aged Benton’s country ham sit on a slick of gingery melon preserves served with a buttery biscuit flecked with Sichuan peppercorns and a thick and salty red-eye gravy. The assembly is odd, but the flavor profiles match up well.

For dessert, a soft and milky white chocolate pudding is served with macerated strawberries for a sweet and tart contrast. White chocolate crumbles provide a bit of crunch and an extra dimension of flavor.

After 25 years, a few changes have brought a more casual and contemporary spirit to the table at NOLA.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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Emeril Lagasse’s redesigned French Quarter restaurant takes a contemporary smallplate approach

two daughters by combining their names, LuLu and Violet.

The petite corner restaurant was once home to the donut concept Proofed. The renovated space has a colorful theme in the dining room, and there is a narrow, wraparound bar facing a chef’s counter where Gong presides.

Gong’s previous tenure at a Japanese restaurant provides inspiration for the creative selection of raw dishes on the menu, but sushi is not among them. During a recent visit, there were thin planks of yellowtail topped with cilantro, fresh jalapeno and a habanero pepper tobiko. Tuna crostini was topped with wasabi aioli, and the playfully named “monkey snack” featured raw salmon wrapped around sesame-crusted banana slices drizzled with a sweet and spicy sauce. An omakase-style dinner of courses chosen by the chef costs $45.

Other dishes include spicy dan dan noodles with ghost chili oil, “Mama’s” dumplings filled with pork, ginger and cabbage served in soy broth, fried tofu with shiitake and wood ear mushrooms, caramelized ginger-soy chicken and a smashed cucumber salad drizzled with a garlic and soy vinegar.

The bar features sakes, wines, beer and sake-infused cocktails, among other drinks.

LUVI serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday.

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Service counter CHEF ISAAC TOUPS announced dates and themes for upcoming Counter Club dinners at Toups South (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-304-2147; www.toupssouth.com). There’s a Mexico City dinner May 17. The menu includes elote (Mexican-style grilled corn on the cob) with huitlacoche butter.

The French founder of nouvelle cuisine is the inspiration for “If Paul Bocuse was Cajun” on June 21.

Dishes such as pickled pork lettuce wraps will be served at the VietCajun dinner July 19.

The themed dinner series features dishes not on Toups South’s regular menu. The four-course meals cost $50 per person, not including drinks, tax or tip. Each dinner has seatings at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the open kitchen’s dining bar. Call the restaurant for reservations.

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Boil advisory AT BOIL SEAFOOD HOUSE (3340

Magazine St., 504-309-4532), from Namese owner Hieu Doan, Vietnamese-style crawfish is the highlight. The style is also known as Viet-Cajun, a method that’s popular

in Houston and now starting to pop-up in New Orleans.

The restaurant opened in April on the corner of Magazine Street and Louisiana Avenue, in the former home of the New Orleans

Toups South announced several themed dinners in its Counter Club series.

Music Exchange. Guests start by choosing their boiled seafood, such as crawfish, crab legs, lobster, shrimp, clams, mussels or other options. Diners then chose one of four flavors — Asian, Cajun, garlic butter or Caribbean citrus — and a spice level ranging from low to very high.

The restaurant also serves charbroiled oysters, seafood sandwiches, Vietnamese shrimp cakes, lobster macaroni and cheese, fried calamari, and a variety of boil accoutrement including sausages, corn, potatoes and mushrooms.

Boil Seafood House is open daily.

— HELEN FREUND

Mourning call CAPPING A 44-YEAR RUN , the flagship Morning Call Coffee Stand (3325 Severn Ave., Metairie, 504885-4068) will close at the end of the month.

The 24-hour beignet and cafe au lait business was opened in the French Quarter in 1870 by Joseph Jurisch. In 1974, the shop’s owners moved to a strip mall in Metairie amidst rent increases and redevelopment in the French Quarter.

In 2012, the shop expanded to a second location inside the Timken Center (56 Dreyfous Drive, 504300-1157), formerly known as the City Park Casino Building. That spot will now be the main focus for owners Bob and Mike Hennessy, employees at the Severn Avenue shop said.

In 2014, the owners announced plans to close the Metairie shop, citing a steep increase in their rent, but ended up renegotiating their lease.

The City Park location is open 24 hours daily. — HELEN FREUND

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Loretta Harrison OWNER OF LORETTA’S AUTHENTIC PRALINES PRALINES ARE A WAY OF LIFE for Loretta

Harrison. She launched Loretta’s Authentic Pralines (2101 N. Rampart St., 504-944-7068; www.lorettaspralines. com) 41 years ago and became a familiar name after she joined the list of regular food vendors at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the 1980s. This year, Harrison will serve crab beignets and new sweet and savory calas at the festival.

Harrison spoke with Gambit about the praline business.

How did you get into the praline business?

HARRISON: I started when I was 8 years old. My mom taught me (to make pralines), and the recipe came from her mom, and her recipe came from her mom. So it was handed down. I was allowed to make pralines on the stove when I was 12. I always enjoyed it because it was candy, and we loved sugar. We would always have a house full of people on Sundays; we would do a dinner and after dinner, momma would make the pralines and serve them with homemade vanilla ice cream.

So it has been a passion.

I just kept making them. I even made some when I was in college. After I graduated from Southern University, I took a job at the LSU medical library and made them and sold them to the students. They all just fell in love with them, and they told me, “Ms. Loretta, you should start your own business.” So when Jazz Fest was looking for a praline vendor sometime in the 1980s, I submitted mine, and I’ve been there ever since. My first year, I sold 1,500 pralines.

Pralines are sugar, butter, pecans and milk. But the secret to what I do is passion. When you love something, it’s not like work. You enjoy doing it. When it’s work, you get tired of it.

It’s an honor and a blessing to do something that people enjoy.

It’s win-win.

What is the inspiration for the rice calas you’re offering this year?

H: This is the first time I’ve made

them. This year, (Jazz Fest) coincides with the tricentennial and (Jazz Fest organizers) asked me to try them out. I said, “Why not?” For me, the calas is related to the beignet. They’re rice fritters that were made by slaves for their masters. They made them after parading on Sundays.

They would walk around selling them after church and parade up and down (the streets). They used the proceeds to give some back to the masters, and some of it would go toward buying their freedom. And they’re very delicious.

The original rice calas were sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Back in the day, they used to drizzle molasses on them.

For the plain ones, I’m putting powdered sugar on them, and for the sweet potato ones, I’m making a sweet potato syrup to pour on them. With the shrimp calas, I’m making a sauce from roasted garlic, capers, artichoke hearts and mayonnaise.

Were you surprised to see Loretta’s Pralines featured on a recent episode of the TV show The Simpsons?

H: It was funny, and I got a lot of people texting me and sending me the clips for it. The pictures are from my store. I looked up and saw the old signage. I thought it was awesome and funny — Homer Simpson loved my pralines. I said “Oh, wow. We have arrived!” But he really loved everything here. He was eating his way through our town.

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BYWATER Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; www.jackdempseys. net — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Fri, D Wed-Sat. $$

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Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. B, L Mon-Fri. $

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS

Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www.facebook.com/ queeniesonstclaude — No reservations. L, D daily. $

Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise.com — Reservations accepted. L Sat-Sun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$

Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. D WedSun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — Reservations recommended. B & D daily, L Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $

Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted for large parties. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe — 7801 Panola St., (504) 314-1810; www.panolas-

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

CHALMETTE Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations.

L Tue-Fri, D Tue, brunch Sat-Sun. $

CITYWIDE Breaux Mart — Citywide; www.breauxmart. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

brunch Sun. $$$ Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. L Wed-Sat, D Mon-Sat. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans. com — Reservations recommended. B, L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily. $$

La Carreta — Citywide; www.carretarestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for larger parties. Lunch and dinner daily. $$

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$

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El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; www.kebabnola.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D WedMon, late Fri-Sat. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 9478787 — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $ Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat. $$

FRENCH QUARTER Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $ Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. L, D Mon-Sat,

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. L, early dinner daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Wed-Sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant.com PAGE 61

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— No reservations. L, D, late Mon-Sun. $

— Reservations accepted. L and D TueSun, brunch Sat-Sun, late Thu-Sat. $$

The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar — 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www. steakkniferestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. D Tue-Sat. $$$

NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$

METAIRIE

Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

GENTILLY Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly.com — No reservations. B, L daily. Cash only. $

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www.bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — No reservations. 24H $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www.riccobonospeppermill.com — Reservations accepted. B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $

Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $

Vista Buffet — Treasure Chest Casino, 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. L Mon-Fri, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$

LAKEVIEW El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola. com — See No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com

Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

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biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available TueFri. No reservations. L, brunch daily. $$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — No reservations. B, L and D Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. L daily, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. D Tue-Sat. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

NORTHSHORE Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/ cafeluna504 — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$

HAPPY HOUR

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$

Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D, late daily. $ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. B, L Mon-Sat. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 4109997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria. com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Reservations accepted.

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WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. late Fri-Sat. $$ El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. D TueSat. Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook. com/tavolinolounge — Reservations accepted for large parties. D daily, brunch Sun. $$

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TUESDAY 1 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Steve Bernstein’s Fest Mob, Drew Tucker, 10 BMC — Dapper Dandies, 8 Cafe Istanbul — Johnny Vidacovich Trio feat. John Medeski, Will Bernard, Pete Muller & Friends, 8 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Grayson Capps Band, 7:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Anders Osborne, John Fohl, Johnny Sansone, 8 The Civic Theatre — Beach House, 8 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Gasa Gasa — Waxahatchee, Guts Club, 9 Greater New Orleans Foundation — GiveNOLA Fest feat. Irma Thomas, Soul Rebels, 5 Hi-Ho Lounge — Calvin Johnson’s Chapter Soul SuperJam feat. Big Sam, June Yamagishi, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — The Dangerous Summer, All Get Out, A Will Away, 8 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — Jouwala Collective, Gina Sobel, Emily Julia Kresky, 10 Louisiana Music Factory — Tuba Skinny, noon; Eric Johanson, 1; Jeff McCarty, 2; Nolatet, 3; Grayson Capps, 4; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 5; Little Freddie King, 6 Marigny Studios — United Bakery Records Revue feat. Esther Rose, Lo Beam, Max & the Martians, No Money Down, Slangston Hughes, Flow Tribe, 4 One Eyed Jacks — Dragon Smoke, 9; The Eddie Logic Project, 1:30 a.m.

Siberia Lounge — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue (album release), 9 SideBar — Mike Dillon, Reed Mathis, Simon Berz, Brian Haas, 8; Mike Dillon, Jean-Paul Gaster, Nate Lambertson, 10; Jean-Paul Gaster, Otto Schrang, Brian Haas, 12:30 a.m.

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — New Orleans Jazz Masters feat. Germaine Bazzle, Herlin Riley, George French, David Torkanowsky, Charlie Gabriel, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Tipitina’s — Steve Earle & the Dukes, The Mastersons, 9 Vaughan’s Lounge — The Fortifiers, Jamaican Me Breakfast Club, 9

WEDNESDAY 2 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 6:30; Harmonica Extravaganza, 8 Bar Redux — Aziza & the Cure, Diako Diakoff, 8 Blue Nile — Ivan Neville’s Piano Sessions, 8; Game of Bones, 11

BMC — Demi, 5; Yisrael, 8; Funk It All, 11 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 The Civic Theatre — Afghan Whigs, Built to Spill, 8 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dragon’s Den — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Brent Cobb & Them, Savannah Conley, Jack Sledge, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Delta Revues, 6; Toubab Krewe, 9; Think Pink SuperJam (New Orleans Women and Children’s Shelter benefit), 11 House of Blues — Clutch, The Bronx, Red Fang, Fireball Ministry, 7:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Megalomaniac’s Ball, 10 Lafayette Square — Wednesday at the Square feat. Amanda Shaw, Trumpet Mafia, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8 & 10 Louisiana Music Factory — Palmetto Bug Stompers, noon; Dr. Michael White, 1; Bonerama, 2; Kermit Ruffins & Irvin Mayfield, 3; Marcia Ball, 4; Zachary Richard, 5; Samantha Fish, 6 The Maison — West Coast New Boogaloo Showcase, 9:30; John Medeski’s Mad Skillet, 1:30 a.m.

Marigny Studios — United Bakery Records Revue, 9 One Eyed Jacks — The Daze Between Band, 10; Fu*k 2017: A Tribute to Musicians We’ve Lost, 2 a.m.

Siberia Lounge — Shane Sayers, Duke Aeroplane, Epic Proportions, 9 SideBar — Skerik, Simon Berz, 9; James Singleton’s Rough Babies, 11:30; Alex Massa, Simon Berz, Justin Peake, 2 a.m.

The Starlight — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 7 Tipitina’s — The Radiators, 10 Voo Doo Two Lounge — Grace at the Green Light, 6

THURSDAY 3 Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park feat.

Sporty & the Big Shots, Noisewater, 6 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Junko Beat (album release), 9; City of Trees Brass Band, 10 Bar Redux — Ken Swartz & the Palace of Sin, 9 Blue Nile — Sputacular’s Funkadelic Experience, 10 Blue Nile Balcony Room — JuJu Fest All-Stars, 12:30 BMC — Andre Lovett Band, 8; Chrishira, 11 PAGE 67

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FRIDAY 4 Bar Redux — JD Hill & the Jammers, 9 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins, 10:30; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 1 a.m.

Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 8:30 Cafe Istanbul — Honey Island Swamp Band, 10; Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 1 a.m.

Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andrew Duhon Trio, 10

Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 8; Charlie Wooton Project, 11 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; Dash Rip Rock, 10 The Civic Theatre — Tank & the Bangas, Naughty Professor, Maggie Koerner, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social (Latin dance party), 10 Gasa Gasa — Flow Tribe, Valerie Sassyfras, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — The River Dragon, 6; The Stooges Brass Band, 8; Roosevelt Collier Trio feat. Jake Eckert, midnight House of Blues — The Funky Meters, 9; The Motet, 1 a.m.

House of Blues (The Parish) — Cowboy Mouth, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Bayou Rendezvous, 9 Joy Theater — Galactic, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 8; The New Mastersounds, 2 a.m.

Lafayette Square — Wednesday at the Square, 5 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Lilli Lewis, 5; Jamison Ross, 8 The Maison — Catie Rogers & Her Swing Orchestra, 1; New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Shotgun Brass Band, 7; Brass-AHolics, 10; Worship My Organ, 11:45 One Eyed Jacks — Frogs Gone Fishin’, 8; Gravity A, 1 a.m.

Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10; Midnight Preserves, midnight Prime Example Jazz Club — The Bridge Trio, 8 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Tab Benoit & Samantha Fish, 8; Spafford, 2 a.m.

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Wayne Toups, Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition, 8:30 Saenger Theatre — Gov’t Mule, The Marcus King Band, 8:30 Siberia Lounge — Kumasi, Egg Yolk Jubilee, Electric Arch, 10 SideBar — Dayna Kurtz & Robert Mache, 9; The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, 11:30; Mike Gamble, Simon Lott, Justin Peake, 2 a.m.

Southport Hall — Consortium of Genius, Kirby Krackle, Billsberry Flowboy, Glitch Black, 7 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30 The Starlight — Linnzi Zaorski, 7

Tipitina’s — The Devon Allman Project feat. Duane Betts, 9; Turkuaz feat.

Denny Laine (Paul McCartney & Wings tribute), 2 a.m.

SATURDAY 5 Bamboula’s — G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7; Mofongo, 9; Crawdaddy T’s Cajun Zydeco Review, 11:30 Bar Redux — Sabertooth Swing, 9 Blue Nile — Cris Jacobs Band feat. Ivan Neville, Naughty Professor, 9; Marco Benevento, 2 a.m.

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7:15; Stooges Brass Band, 10:30; Shaun Martin’s Go Go Party, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone, 8 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — John Mooney & Bluesiana, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show, 8; James Singleton, Skerik, Johnny Vidacovich, Jonathan Freilich, 11:30 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 10 Columns Hotel — Gary Negbaur, 2 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Gasa Gasa — GIVERS, ROAR!, Naughty Palace, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Iceman Special, 8; Pink Room Project, 11 House of Blues — The Motet feat. Butcher Brown, 9; The Main Squeeze, 1 a.m.

House of Blues (The Parish) — Ripe, 11 Howlin’ Wolf — Anders Osborne & Friends feat. Eric Krasno, Marc Broussard, 10 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — Mike Dillon Band, Brady Blade, Hildegarde, 10 Jazz National Historical Park — West African Drumming and Dance, noon; Steel Pans feat. Reynold Kinsale, 2 The Jazz Playhouse — Tom Hook, 5; New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, 8 Joy Theater — Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, 8; The New Mastersounds, 2 a.m.

Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Marc Stone’s AllStar Fest-ivity feat. Mike Dillon, Roosevelt Collier, Bobby Junior, Brittany Purdy, 8; Glen David Andrews, 11 Mardi Gras World — Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 8 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — The Key Sound, 4

MUSIC Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Mark Fernandez, 9 Oak — Dapper Dandies, 9 Old Point Bar — Misfit Toys, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Sonic Bloom feat. Eric “Benny” Bloom, 9; Break Science, 1 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10; Midnight Preserves, midnight Prime Example Jazz Club — Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Cinco de Freedia feat. Big Freedia, Sweet Crude, Boyfriend, 9; Spafford, 2 a.m.

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Cinco de Mayo feat. Javier Olondo, AsheSon, Walter Trout, Sonny Landreth, 9:30 Saenger Theatre — Ryan Adams, Don Was (Exile on Main St. tribute), 9 Santos Bar — Freewater (dance party), 10 Siberia Lounge — Maggie Belle Band, Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, The Tumbling Wheels, 10 SideBar — Voodoo-Tek feat. Larry Sieberth, Brad Walker, Doug Belote, 9; Wally Ingram, Glenn Hartman, Eric McFadden, 11:30; Fell feat. Simon Berz, TokTek, 2 a.m.

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Herlin Riley Quintet, 9 & 11 Southport Hall — 10 Years, Stepping Sideways, 7:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 The Starlight — Shawan Rice, 7 Tipitina’s — North Mississippi AllStars, 9; Greyboy All-Stars, 2 a.m.

Vaughan’s Lounge — The Klezmer AllStars, 9; Morning 40 Federation, 11

SUNDAY 6 30/90 — James Martin Band, 11 Blue Nile — Funky But Better, 10:30 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Mia Borders, 10:30 BMC — Jazmarae, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Wizz, 6 Cafe Istanbul — Bonerama feat. John “Papa” Gros, Darcy Malone, 10 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Ian Moore, 8; Mike Dillon, James Singleton, Jonathan Freil-

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Chickie Wah Wah — Seth Walker, 8; John “Papa” Gros Band, 10:30 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with Rik Slave, 7; The Bush Hogs, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den — Ariee, 10 Gasa Gasa — The Iceman Special, Slugger, DJ Recess, 10:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Erica Falls, 8; Saucefest, 10 House of Blues — Shorty Fest, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — The Daze Between Band feat. Dave Schools, Eric Krasno, Marcus King, Deshawn Alexander, 9:30; Space & Harmony (The Revivalists after-party), 2 a.m.

Joy Theater — Ragefest, 10 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8; Dead Blues feat. Grahame Lesh, Elliott Peck, Daru Jones, Marcus Machado, John Medeski, 11 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio, 11 Old Point Bar — The Twos, 9 Republic New Orleans — Dead Feat feat.

Anders Osborne, Jackie Greene, Paul Barrere, Fred Tackett, Brady Blade, Carl Dufrene, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Chubby Carrier, Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie, Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, 8:30 Saenger Theatre — The Revivalists, 8 Santos Bar — Keith Frank, CC Adcock & the Lafayette Marquis, DJ Quintron, 9 SideBar — Jimmy Robinson, Cranston Clements, John Rankin, 9; Minos the Saint, 11:30; Mike Gamble & Nick Benoit, 2 a.m.

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Dr. Lonnie Smith Quartet feat. Donald Harrison, 9 & 11 Tipitina’s — Turkuaz, 9; Marco Benevento, 2 a.m.

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FOR TWO ICONIC ROCK BANDS with as twisty histories as these, it’s a bit surprising Doug Martsch and Greg Dulli never crossed paths before this arranged marriage. It’s also hard to imagine a better good cop/bad cop routine of a tour stop.

On the angel shoulder: Built to Spill’s halo-bender, a wide-Idaho stargazer, punchyhook trailblazer and jam-band Peter Pan to throngs of conflicted indie kids. On the devil shoulder: The Afghan Whigs’ gutter twin, a Cincinnati twilight sinner and unrepentant less-than-gentleman. (These are Jackson Square caricatures to be sure, but who doesn’t love a Jackson Square caricature?) Beyond the antipodal generalizations lie some specific commonalities: Both jumped to major labels and got even better as a result, gerrymandering the mainstream and rewriting the narrative about independent artists losing their edge when handed a bankroll. This tour catches each at a separate crossroads, with Dulli and family mourning the loss of guitarist Dave Rosser — instrumental in 2017’s In Spades (Sub Pop) and introduced at each concert in memoriam — and Martsch and company happily homeless after two historic decades of odd coupling with Warner Bros. Could a heroic return to foundering K Records be in the cards? If there’s one thing Dulli and the Whigs proved in their sensational graveyard breakout, it’s that you absolutely can go home again. Ed Harcourt opens. Tickets $30-$40. At 8 p.m. Wednesday. Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www.civicnola.com.

ich, Brad Walker, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tangiers Combo, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — AzzFest feat. New Thousand, BateBunda, Rusty Lazer, 10 House of Blues — George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Papa Mali’s All-Star Birthday Bash feat. The Electric Company, Cris Jacobs, Bobby Vega, Kirk Joseph, Queen Delphine, Eric McFadden, Wake of the Dead, Sam Price & the True Believers, Mike Dillon, The Crooked Stuff, Jermal Watson, Reggie Scanlan, 9 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Eric Lindell, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Sonny Landreth, Tab Benoit, Jonathan Boogie Long, 8:30 Siberia Lounge — Helen Gillet, Zoe Boekbinder, Sasha Masakowski, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Terence Blanchard & E-Collective, 9 & 11 Southport Hall — Petty Fest feat. Chuck Credo IV, Chad Gilmore, Joe Stark, Beau St. Pierre, Travis Thibodeaux, Sir Devon Nooner, Dickie English, Andy Bourgeois, Jamie McLean, Jimmy Messa, Rob Schulte, Bobby Hoerner, Jonathan Hoerner, 8 Tipitina’s — Dumpstaphunk, The Nth Power, DJ Soul Sister, 9

MONDAY 7 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 3; G & the Swinging Three, 6:30; John Lisi, 10 Blue Nile — The Nth Power, 10:30 BMC — Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10

Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Bill Kirchen & Austin DeLone, 8 Dragon’s Den — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 Louisiana Music Factory — Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, noon; John Fohl, 1:30; Water Seed, 3; Funk Monkey, 4:30; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 6 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10 Tipitina’s — One More Monday, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 9

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie, (504) 838-4389; www.lafrenierepark. org — The orchestra performs its outdoor “Swing in the Park” concert. Free. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The group also performs at Heritage Park (1701 Bayou Lane, Slidell) at 6 p.m. Sunday.

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EVENTS TUESDAY 1 Caribbean Night. Paradigm Gardens, 1131 S. Rampart St., (504) 344-9474; www. paradigmgardensnola.com — The outdoor dinner event offers Caribbean cuisine and drinks and Higher Heights performs.

Guests may BYOB. Tickets $35. 7 p.m.

Maple Leaf Bar Interviews. Frenchy Gallery, 8319 Oak St., (504) 861-7677; www.frenchylive.com — Fred Kasten interviews musicians Louis Michot (Tuesday) and Walter “Wolfman” Washington (Wednesday). Free admission. 2 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday.

NOLA Crawfish Festival. Central City BBQ, 1201 S. Rampart St., (504) 5584276; www.centralcitybbq.com — The three-day festival features a crawfish-eating contest, a cook-off, local beers and music. Tickets $45-$500. 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY 2 All That Jazz. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Alex Rawls, Gwen Thompkins and Dr. Michael White discuss the intersections between New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, local music and second line traditions. Free with museum admission. 6:30 p.m.

Pizza & Pie Night. Paradigm Gardens, 1131 S. Rampart St., (504) 344-9474; www. paradigmgardensnola.com — Dinner in the garden includes offerings from Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria, The Pupusa Lady, Marjie’s Grill and Queen Trini Lisa. DJ Doug Funnie performs. Tickets $40. 6:30 p.m.

What Would Dolly Do? How to Be a Diamond in the Rhinestone World. Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar & Restaurant,

OCEAN CURRENTS TRAVEL IN CIRCLES. Time also is a current, so here we are, contemplating New Orleans’ 300th year as an urban island just upriver from a restless sea that threatens our existence even as it nourishes our identity as a unique global city. It is a poetic paradox elaborated by 15 artists in this Vessels of Mercy, Vessels of Wrath expo curated by New Orleans Croatian Srdjan Loncar. Sadly, the sea is deteriorating, rapidly acidifying and becoming choked with trash. Here Kristian Murina’s sculpture of ghost freighter Leute Moj (pictured), cobbled from scrap metal and lost objects, suggests a vessel of commerce in a state of dereliction. Nearby, a suspended skeletal boat by Raine Bedsole draped with cobalt blue streamers evokes the ethereal boats that ferried deceased pharaohs on their journeys across the sky.

Life came from the oceans long before man-made devices harnessed the forces of the watery deep. Sailors’ knots are man-made loops that mimic the loop currents of the ocean as we see in Matthew Shain’s evocative knot photos that focus our gaze on how even the most commonplace objects can contain hints of the eternal. The relentless sea requires resiliency on our part, a quality symbolized by the bobbing of buoys and bottles. Christopher Saucedo’s Self Portrait as Water Bottle Buoy sculpture features a torso-size water bottle linked with rope to an anchor in a visual paradox that contrasts human buoyancy with looming sea level rise. Robert Tannen’s Stealth Sailboat suggests a high-tech boat of last resort. Loncar’s The Seventh Continent installation of drawings and photographs of fantastical gargantuan container ships suggests how a 21st-century techno-Noah might respond to the potential deluge posed by global warming.

The expo is among several exceptional shows at St. Claude Avenue galleries. At UNO-St. Claude Gallery, Ruth Owens’ dreamy Baby Love paintings and videos were inspired by her German-African-American family’s experiences navigating diverse cultural circumstances. At Antenna Gallery, Devin Reynolds’ Tyrone Don’t Surf paintings look like old-time illustrated road signs contrasting modern American pastimes with cultural cliches surrounding traditional African-American life.

Vessels of Mercy, Vessels of Wrath is open through May 5. Barrister’s Gallery.

2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.barristersgallery.com.

2604 Magazine St., (504) 897-5413; www. traceysnola.com — There is a Dolly Parton look-alike contest and parade to Garden District Book Shop, where Lauren Marino will read from her recent book about the singer. 4 p.m.

THURSDAY 3 Free Funk Fest. 2100 Calliope St. — Soul Project performs at the block party, and there’s free food. 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 4 Bayou Bash. Our Lady of Lourdes, 400 Westchester Blvd., Slidell — The festival has carnival rides, live music and a 2-mile fun run. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Friday-Saturday.

First Fridays on the Boulevard. Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard — Restaurants, music venues and businesses along the boulevard offer discounts and stay open late for special events. 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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a hat contest. Tickets $25-$35. 4 p.m.

Westwego Crawfish Cookoff. 484 Sala Ave., Westwego — There’s a crawfish cook-off, all-you-can-eat crawfish and live music by the Craig Wolverton Band and the Brad Sapia Band. Tickets $15. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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SATURDAY 5 Cinco de Mayfest. Lakefront Park, Kenner — The family-friendly festival on Lake Pontchartrain features Mexican food, margaritas, live music, traditional Mexican dancing and more. Free admission. 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Cinco de Mayo Block Party. Los Jefes Grill, 3224 Edenborn Ave., (504) 516-2861; www.losjefesgrill.com — There are DJs and a live band at the Mexican-themed block party with food and drinks. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. Visit www.sttammanyartassociation.org for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

First Saturdays. Magazine Street — Shops along Magazine Street stay open late for special events and offer refreshments. Free admission. 5 p.m.

Kentucky Derby Party. Terra Bella, 100 Terra Bella Blvd., Covington, (985) 8717171 — Food and cocktails are served at a Kentucky Derby watch party, and there’s

Healing, Pleasure and Sex After Trauma.

Dynamo, 2001 St. Claude Ave., (504) 534-8697; www.dynamotoys.com — The sex-positive discussion covers intimacy, toys and pleasure after trauma (e.g. chronic illness, sexual trauma, pregnancy loss). Tickets $15. 7 p.m.

SPORTS New Orleans Baby Cakes. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.cakesbaseball.com — The New Orleans Baby Cakes play the Round Rock Express at 7 p.m Tuesday and Thursday and noon Wednesday.

WORDS Heather Hoeksema. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author discusses Flash Light: 9 Girls’ Stories for Grown Ups. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Rick Bragg. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The author discusses The Best

Cook in the World: Tales from my Momma’s Table. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Sheba Turk. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The WWL-TV anchor discusses Off Air: My Journey to the Anchor Desk. 7 p.m.

Thursday.

W. Bruce Cameron. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author discusses A Dog’s Way Home. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

FILM

SPECIAL SCREENINGS American Graffiti (PG) — This early George Lucas film is known for its depiction of pre-’60s youth culture. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania Forbidden Planet (G) — The ’50s sci-fi film with Leslie Nielsen loosely alludes to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. 10 a.m.

Wednesday. Prytania Ghostbusters (2016) (PG) — The reimagining of the 1984 paranormal comedy has an all-female cast. 6:15 p.m. Friday. Behrman Memorial Park (2529 Gen. Meyer Ave., Algiers)

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The Great Silence — A bounty hunter and mute gunslinger square off in Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 Western. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

Ava — Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi presents the semi-autobiographical film about rebelling against her Iranian upbringing. Zeitgeist

Labyrinth (PG) — Bowie lives on with a screening of Jim Henson’s dark fairy tale.

7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Regal

Bad Samaritan (R) — A would-be burglar discovers another crime in progress.

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Like Arrows — What the word of the Lord says on parenting. 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal, Cinebarre

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc — Bruno Drumont’s film is about the young life of the French heroine. Zeitgeist Overboard (PG-13) — In this comedy (a remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell vehicle), a maid schemes against a yachting type. Kenner Zama — A Spanish officer in South America waits for a transfer to a new post. Broad

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The Metropolitan Opera: Cendrillon — The Cinderella story inspires this opera.

1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Elmwood, Cinebarre The Notebook (PG-13) — This weeper sparked Gosling memes that haunt us to this day. 1:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.

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Zoo-To-Do. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — The zoo’s black-tie gala raises money for its new lion exhibit. Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Bon Bon Vivant and Bamboula 2000 perform. Tickets $175. 8 p.m.

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ON STAGE Bella Blue’s Dirty Dime Peepshow. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Ben Wisdom hosts the burlesque and variety show. Tickets $15.

Midnight Saturday.

The Best of Sinatra. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — Spencer Racca portrays Frank Sinatra in this performance.

Tickets $39.99. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Catch Me If You Can. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The musical is inspired by the life of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. Tickets $35. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — Disney characters, including Moana, Cinderella and Anna and Elsa from Frozen, appear in the family-friendly ice show. Tickets $15.

7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 10:30 a.m. Friday, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday.

Eclipsed. Loyola University New Orleans, Marquette Theatre, Marquette Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — Five women rely on each other to cope with exploitation during the Liberian Civil War. Visit www.southernrep.com for details. Tickets $8-$45. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Jeanne d’Arc: La Transgression. New Orleans Art Center, 3330 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383-4765; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — Francophilia Foundation presents the performance based on the life of Joan of Arc. Tickets $15-$20. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

Late Night Catechism. Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Audience members are “students” in a stern nun’s classroom in this comedy. Tickets $20-$35. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Little Shop of Horrors. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Gary Rucker directs the sci-fi musical about a carnivorous plant. Tickets $36-$40. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Risque. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Southern Decadence Grand Marshal Johnny Passion appears in the variety show with drag, burlesque and cabaret acts. Free admission. 9 p.m. Saturday.

ART

Curator Talk. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Photography curator Russell Lord discusses “Lee Friedlander in Louisiana.” Free with museum admission. Noon Wednesday.

Jammin’ on Julia. New Orleans Arts District — The block party and art walk has gallery openings, food, drinks and music including performances by Jenn Howard Band, Bon Bon Vivant and Helen Gillet. 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

OPENINGS Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — New work by Myra Williamson Wirtz and Milton Cheramie; jewelry by Dashka Roth; crafts by Sandra Maher; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Recent Paintings and Drawings,” new works on paper by John Alexander; “In Fields,” geometric abstract works by Pard Morrison; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — Plein air landscapes by Robert Malone; porcelain works by John Oles; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Life Blood de la Louisiane,” romantic realist works by Elayne Kuehler; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Reprise,” new butterfly installations by Paul Villinski; “Something Old / Something New,” new works by Carlton Scott Sturgill; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Flowers Color the Landscape,” paintings on copper by Benjamin Shamback; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans.

433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — “Mark Kostabi: Contemporary Master,” new works by the artist; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Preservation Resource Center. 923 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 581-7032; www. prcno.org — Selections from the NOLA DNA newspaper archive; opening reception 7 p.m. Saturday.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Neutral Ground,” mixed-media works pairing organic forms with geometric structure by Peter Barnitz; opening reception 6 p.m. Friday.

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233 S. Jeff Davis - 2bd/2ba ............... $1650 2354 Constance - 3bd/2ba ................ $2400 921 Race #C - 3bd/2ba ...................... $3750 315 Decatur #4 - 1bd/1ba .................. $1600 618 Congress - 1bd/1ba/ furn ......... $1200

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS! REAL ESTATE FOR RENT All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, NOTICE: familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718.

OLD METAIRIE BEST VALUE IN OLD METAIRIE

LUXURY TOWNHOME IN OLD METAIRIE

Greatrm boasts hdwd flrs, cathedral ceiL, huge brick fireplace opening to sunset deck, patio. Kit w/all built-ins. Single Garage. NO PETS, $1895. 3BR/3BA. Owner/agent.

(504)236-5776.

CARROLLTON 8812 OLEANDER ST.

2BD, LIV RM, KIT & BATH. Off St. Pkg, 1 blk from bus stop. W/D Hkups. Backyard. $670 + $670 Dep. No Pets. Call (504) 610-4716.

MID CITY 3122 PALMYRA STREET

Completely renov, 1/2 dbl w/ 1BR, 1BA, hdwd flrs, washer/dryer, refrigerator, stove, ceil fans, water pd. $900/mo+dep. Call 504899-5544.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1205 ST CHARLES/$1095

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry/3 mo. min.

Avail Now Call 504-442-0573 or 985-871-4324.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT 1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

1 & 2 Bedrooms available in ideal location and ROOMS BY THE MONTH. 1 BR, private bath. All utilities included. $180/week. Call (504) 202-0381 for appointment.

FOR SALE SMALL SPACE CALL 483-3100

1041 Esplanade MON-FRI 8:30-5

949-5400 FOR RENT

528 St. Louis #2 1/1 Pvt street balc, exc loc, hdwd flrs, w/d in unit .................................................................. $1850 937 Gov Nicholls #7 1/1.5 open concept kit/liv, upstairs suite w/updtd bath, common ctyd .......................... $1700 2424 Royal 1/1 shotgun style ½ of double, ctyd, wd flrs, priv w/d, great location ....................................................... $1399 224 Chartres 4 units avail, 1-3 beds, reno’d, elevator access, ctyd, great loc starting at .......................... $2750 231 Burgundy #31/1 negotiable rate depending on whether utilities paid by owner or tenant ............. $1300-1500 2731 N Rampart 3/1 great loc & price! Charming backyard, w/d in unit .................................................................. $1600

FOR SALE 1016-18 St Ann 4/4 live in one side and have a renter help pay your mortgage, or make this a single family. Remodeled w/modern amenities, courtyard ................ $1,200,000 3023 Iberville 3/2 Updt’d, driveway, wd flrs, granite ctrs, sec sys, central location ..................................... $285,000 224 Chartres 4 units avail, 1-3 beds, reno’d, elevator access, ctyd, great loc starting at ................... $649,000 511 Gov Nicholls #G 2/2 huge balc w/great views, wf flrs, expsd brick, master suite and ctyd ..................... $649,000 5029 Bissonet 4/3.5 recently updt’d, poss 5th bed, outside entertainment spc, garage and huge yard ........ $549,000 231 Burgundy #3 1/1 fully furnished, recently reno’d, shared courtyard and 2nd flr balc .................... $259,000 2220 Freret 3/2 large fenced in yard, loc in Flood Zone X, conveniently located .......................................... $168,000 620 Decatur #I 2/2 Hdwd Flrs, High Ceils., Reno’d Baths/ Kit, w/d in unit, amazing views .......................... $785,000

EMPLOYMENT

DENTAL CLEANING SPECIAL

CHILDCARE FULL/PART-TIME NANNIES/ BABYSITTERS NEEDED

Needed throughout the city, $15-$20 per hr.

Call at (504) 722-5752.

MISCELLANEOUS Metairie Country Club NOW HIRING

Apply within or at www.metairiecc.org First Engineer, Merchandise Director, Assistant Dining Room Manager and other FT & PT positions.

ANNOUNCEMENTS TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. OFFICE OF CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES 4521 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125 INVITATION FOR BIDS NO. 2018-13 MILK Sealed bids relative to the above will be received in the Office of Children Youth and Families (OCYF) 4521 Martin Luther King Blvd. New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 until 10:00 A.M. on FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2018.

Specifications and bid documents may be obtained upon request from OCYF, by emailing stephanie.brooks@tca-nola.org or you can visit the TCA website at tca-nola. org. For any questions call Stephanie Brooks, (504)-309-3503 or email her at stephanie.brooks@tca-nola.org. TCA, Inc. reserves the right to reject any or all bids whenever such rejection is in its best interest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this advertisement shall not be waived.

Total Community Action Inc. BY: Thelma Harris French, President/CEO

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Sparkling Pool & Bike Path. 1 & 2 BDRM Apts. w/King Master, furn Kit, granite counters in Kit & Bath. Laun. on premises, Off St Pkg. NO PETS. $744 to $944. Owner/agent (504) 236-5776.

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901 Webster St.• 4BR / 3.5BA • 4000+ SF Beautiful and Stately home on one of New Orleans’ most N sought after streets. Perfect for a family and or entertaining!

Wonderfully appointed chef’s kitchen w/finest appliances, beautiful granite and WoodMode cabinetry. Oversized master suite with incredible, air conditioned, cedar closet. Sits on a large corner lot with a wraparound pool and two car garage.

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3721 St. Charles Ave. #B 3BR/4 BA • $939,000

Wonderful townhome, on the parade route!

These don’t come up often! Don’t miss out!

Over 2400 square feet of living area and a garage, with room for an elevator. This townhome is so well done, with beautiful crown moldings, fantastic living spaces and gourmet kitchen, complete with the finest of appliances and finishes. Too many amenities to list! This, second home has been cared for impeccably and is an entertainer’s delight, with a wonderful balcony on St. Charles!

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1638 Dufossat St. #1638 • $399,000

Off street parking and a private courtyard for enjoying beautiful evenings under the oaks! This grand, Greek revival is just one block from St. Charles Avenue.

At 1300 square feet, it’s an oversized one bedroom condo that boasts beautiful wood floors throughout, lovely medallions and fire place mantels. Step back in time and enjoy a beverage on the spacious front porch…

Uptown charm overload! A must see!

2833 ST. CHARLES AVE #11 2BR/2BA $335,000

2207-09 BURDETTE ST.

3328 REPUBLIC ST.

4BR/2BA $399,000

821 PERDIDO ST. #2B

3BR/2BA $235,000

2BR / 2BA • $529,000

Beautiful CBD condo w/ wonderful open floor plan. 12ft ceil’s and brick exposed walls make it a unique and stunning!

Fantastic walk-in closet and beautiful marble bathrooms. Granite counters, stainless appliances and beautiful cherry wood flrs.

Secured, garage, parking in the building.

5811 TCHOUPITOULAS ST.

Adorable 6-yr-old UPT cottage w/ ideal flr plan, 10’ ceils & reclaimed pine firs. Energy efficient. Hard wired sec. sys, tankless water htr, stainless appl’s. Pretty yd w/deck.

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718 ALINE ST. 3BR/2BA • $435,000

Location, location! Wonderful 2BR on parade route!

Beautifully renov’d two yrs ago. New wd flrs throughout, new kit w/marble & stainless steel. Stackable W/D in unit and new central Air/Heat. Lg inground pool, fitness room, secure off-st pkg.

1629 N ROMAN ST.

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504-232-5554 504-831-0606 Would you like to work with people from all walks of life?

Have you been looking for a way to give back to your community?

We are seeking volunteers at Canon Hospice to donate their time towards helping patients and families who are dealing with end-of-life issues.

Ways to Volunteer: • Talk, listen, pray with, read to, or sit with patients • Support bereaved family members in their healing • Assist with clerical work, data entry, and mailings • Help with events like bingo nights, “Celebrations of Life,” and fundraisers • Use individual skills, creativity, and life experience to help in your own unique way

We are an extremely flexible and supportive environment, and are looking forward to hearing from you at 504-818-2723

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