MuSIC LISTINGS rEVIEW Marnie Stern and Black Francis The website for the performance space at the Old U.S. Mint, www. musicatthemint.org, greets visitors with a declarative sentence by Louis Armstrong: “To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!” There is one question: What in Crackity Jones are Marnie Stern and Charles Thompson (pictured) — she the metal-guitar banshee, indie rock’s reigning lord of the fretboard; he Frank Black Francis, the Spanish-spewing, mutilation-waving Pixie who started it all — doing on a Louisiana State Museum concert lineup? The answer involves a Marnie Stern kinship between a producMay tion engineer and a talent 8:30 p.m. Saturday buyer, some calendar kismet Black Francis and yet another question. 8:30 p.m. Sunday The engineer is the Mint’s Danny Kadar, whose credits include Band The Old U.S. Mint of Horses, Grizzly Bear and My 400 Esplanade Ave. Morning Jacket. The talent buyer is Jason Songe, who fielded an offer (504) 568-6993 from Kadar after the latter attended www.musicatthemint.org rock shows earlier this year by the Whigs and Floating Action, two bands Songe had booked at the Circle Bar. The second question: What could you do with the most state-of-the-art music studio in New Orleans? That answer will come Saturday, when Stern plugs her Fender Telecaster into the Mint’s third-floor, 48-channel Meyer Sound system and conjures Eddie Van Halen for the solo that opens “Nothing is Easy,” from her new album The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars). The next day, Charles Thompson — not the famed jazz pianist, but the former Teenager of the Year who wrote “Here Comes Your Man” as a high-school sophomore — settles in for Sunday service, counting five-six-seven on Cinco de Mayo. Habitat opens for Marnie Stern Saturday. Tickets $12. Reid Paley and Kim Shattuck open for Black Francis Sunday. Tickets $25. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS
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Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; West Bank Mike & Dave Jordan, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Hamala Diabate, Papa Mali, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, 1 a.m. Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tribute to Kid Ory feat. Ronelle Johnson, Lucien Barbarin, Fred Lonzo, Lars Edegran, Tom Fischer, Nobu Ozaki, Frank Oxley, 8 Republic New Orleans — Everyone Orchestra feat. Marco Benevento, Johnny Vidacovich, DJ Logic, Lebo and others, 9 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Tab Benoit, Eric Lindell & Amanda Shaw, 8:30 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard &
Crazy McGee, 10
Siberia — Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Katey Red, Babes, Trampoline Team, DJs 9RIS 9RIS & Pompeii, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — Funky Meters, Rozzi Crane, 9; Galactic feat. Corey Glover, 2 a.m. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center — James Singleton’s 1913-2013 Orchestra feat. Satoru Ohashi, Rex Gregory, Justin Peake, Rick Trolsen & Chris Alford, 9
Saturday 4 AllWays Lounge — Rory Rory & the Danger Dangers, Feufollet, 10
Bayou Beer Garden — Lynn Drury, 8:30 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Royal Potato Family All-Stars feat. Marco Benevento, Mike Dillon, Skerik, John Speice & Reed Mathis, 10; Doug Wimbish Soundsystem feat. Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Will Calhoun & Adam Falcon, Khris Royal & Dark Matter (upstairs), 10; Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, 1:30 a.m. Bombay Club — Luther Kent, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Royal Rounders, 8; Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, 10 Cafe Istanbul — Stanton Moore, 10; Stanton Moore Piano Trip On the Verge feat. The Bridge Trio, Sasha Masakowski & guests, 10
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Birthday Tribute with New Orleans Soul Stars feat. Tony Hall, Renard Poche, Raymond Weber and others, 2 a.m.
Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Carousel Piano Bar &
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