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Cuba-based Cimafunk returns to New Orleans for string of shows IT WASN’T HARD FOR CIMAFUNK to win

over New Orleans.

In fact, the way Cimafunk — the performer name for Afro-Cuban artist Erik Iglesias Rodríguez and for his band — so easily slid onto local stages is a testament to New Orleans’ and Cuba’s musical and cultural connections, especially through their shared African roots.

Within the span of three years — and interrupted by the pandemic — Cimafunk played New Orleans three times, jammed with The Soul Rebels and Tank and the Bangas and hosted a number of New Orleans musicians in Cuba for a multi-day cultural exchange event.

Cimafunk is now back in New Orleans for a string of shows. He played the Broadside last week with The Soul Rebels and will be back at the outdoor venue on N. Broad Street for a Cinco De Mayo show with The Iguanas on Thursday, May 5. He also plays two sets at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Friday, May 6 (see pg. 24).

Cimafunk has called New Orleans “a home away from home.” When he and his band rolled into town on their first U.S. tour in 2019, he was impressed at “how much it reminds me to Cuba, mostly the Black community, has the same vibe,” he says.

“It’s like being in ‘el barrio’ with my people, my family, my friends,” he adds. “The food, the colors, the smells, flavors, how they communicate and interact in a [relaxing] laidback way.”

The 33-year-old singer grew up in Pinar del Rio in western Cuba, absorbing music by James Brown, George Clinton, Lionel Richie, Prince and Marvin Gaye as well as traditional Cuban music and artists like Beny Moré. Originally, he was going to pursue a career in medicine, but after two years in medical school, Rodríguez moved to Havana to dive into music.

He adopted the stage name Cimafunk, a combination of cimarron, a term for African people who escaped enslavement in Cuba, and funk. The name is telling: Cimafunk has been a champion of exploring the African roots and resulting, interweaving branches of popular music, from Afro-Cuban genres to Black American Music. “You got all the African roots that came to the United States and transformed gospel [and] the blues to get funk,” he told NPR. Cimafunk released his debut

album “Terapia” in 2017, and his combination of old-school funk, Afro-Cuban rhythms and a charismatic, high-energy stage show took off. The singer and his band became rockstars in their home country.

In 2019, Cimafunk set out on their first U.S. tour, which brought them to New Orleans for a sold-out, headlining show at Tipitina’s with The Soul Rebels. Offstage, the band jammed even more with The Soul Rebels and Tank and the Bangas, and Rodríguez led a workshop with students from the Trombone Shorty Music Academy. And just a few months later, Cimafunk was back in New Orleans for a second show at Tipitina’s.

Cimafunk’s stateside tour was done in partnership with Cuban Educational Travel’s U.S. Cultural Exchange, and in January 2020, the funk artist played host to New Orleans musicians making their trip to Cuba for Getting Funky in Havana.

“It was special … That was a powerful moment for everyone involved,” Cimafunk says. “I feel like the musicians took away from their visit the same I did when I went for the first time in New Orleans. It’s the same feeling when you are visiting your cousins, your family. And having that same vibe in a place that’s not your home is surprising.”

Not long after Getting Funky in Havana, the pandemic put a long pause on touring. But in that time, Cimafunk worked on his second studio album, “El Alimento,” which means “the nourishment,” a reference to how making new music “nourished” him during the early days of the pandemic. The album cover also is a certified fresh thirst trap.

“El Alimento” found Cimafunk refining his Afro-Cuban funk style and pushing to a new level.

The album’s features include George Clinton — who said about Cimafunk, “He’s the new one, he’s got the funk” — Lupe Fiasco, CeeLo Green, Stylo G and more.

Once travel restrictions were relaxed, Cimafunk returned to the U.S. last fall and burned down the Broadside on the night “El Alimento” was released, ending the show with people packed on stage dancing. Cimafunk has become a fan of the outdoor venue.

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hop supergroup of saxophonist Kamasi Washington, keyboardist Robert Glasper and producer, rapper and saxophonist Terrace Martin. The trio performs two shows on two nights at One Eyed Jacks Presents on Decatur Street, with start times at 10 p.m. and after midnight on Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6. Tickets $55 at oneeyedjacks.net.

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Afro-Cuban artist Cimafunk plays the Broadside on Thursday, May 5, and Jazz Fest on Friday, May 6.

After his New Orleans shows this week, Cimafunk travels to Florida, California, Canada and Mexico before heading to Europe on a summer tour. Still, it probably won’t be long before he’s again in south Louisiana. The connection between Cuba and New Orleans is centuries old and runs deep, but there’s more to be talked about.

“We don’t talk enough about the process of information exchange between Cuba and New Orleans,” he says. “[It] is one of the most important things that have happened in the music we are making in Cuba and other musicians are making in New Orleans.”

“At the end, the fact that it doesn’t get talked about enough doesn’t matter, because Cuba is in New Orleans, New Orleans is in Cuba,” Cimafunk adds. “And that’s not going to change the reality that both are special places and have similarities that talk about history, feelings, good and bad things, traumas, and how music transcended all that and followed a road that no one could stop and interconnected these two places and created what is today our music.”

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Preservation Hall 60th anniversary celebration FRENCH QUARTER LANDMARK PRESERVATION HALL, WHICH TOM WAITS DUBBED “SACRED, HALLOWED GROUND,” turned 60 years old

last July. COVID-19 caused the postponement of Pres Hall’s celebration at the Orpheum Theater, but the gala concert is finally happening, with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and guests Irma Thomas, Nathaniel Rateliff, Big Freedia, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore and David Shaw.

Proceeds benefit the Preservation Hall Foundation. The show is at 9 p.m. Friday, May 6. Tickets are $60-$160 at preservationhall.com.

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New Orleans CityCouncil finally renamed the downtown circle where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood.

The circle on St. Charles Avenue will now be called Harmony Circle — the council’s ordinance officially renames the small park in the circle; the street itself was never formally changed from its original Tivoli Circle. Former Mayor Mitch Landrieu in 2015 called for the removal of the Lee statue, which was taken down in 2017 along with other Confederate tributes. Now, what to do with that ugly ass column?

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Mayor Cantrell’s no good, very bad week Melvin Nimtz, a trombonist and

a senior at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, has been selected to participate in this summer’s NYO Jazz program, an intensive program bringing together young musicians from across the country for training, a performance at Carnegie Hall and a U.S. tour.

Nimtz was one of only 22 musicians selected and the only person from Louisiana.

A Louisiana Senate committee

advanced legislation last week to repeal the “Raise the Age” law, a criminal justice reform passed in 2016 that calls for 17-year-olds to be charged as juveniles and send them to juvenile detention facilities rather than adult prisons. Committee members cited the recent rise in crime as reason to repeal the reform, but data analyst Jeff Asher said there is no evidence the law contributed to it.

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IT WAS A ROUGH WEEK FOR MAYOR LATOYA CANTRELL . In fact, it

was bad before it even began.

Ramsey Green, a California real estate agent turned top aide to Cantrell informed his boss he was leaving for the private practice.

Green had been looking to jump ship for months, according to sources in City Hall.

Green’s time in City Hall has been marked by controversy and disaster, to say the least. He oversaw the uneven long-term response to the 2017 floods, the disastrous response to the Hard Rock collapse which left the bodies of workers exposed for nearly a year and the further collapse of the city’s roads.

And, he had a central role in the month long trash pile-up following Hurricane Ida, and misled the City Council about the city’s enforcement efforts against trash haulers.

Still, he was a close advisor to Cantrell and she stood by him throughout.

Then on the 25th, the Smart+Connected NOLA partnership — a consortium of contractors including Qualcomm and Magic Johnson — abruptly pulled out of Cantrell’s signature Smart City WiFi project.

The group abandoned Cantrell as a result of a growing corruption and pay-to-play scandal involving the project and city officials.

Expanding access to WiFi and high-speed internet have long been priorities for Cantrell, and since her inauguration she has focused on the Smart City plan in particular. In theory, the program was supposed to bring WiFi to underserved areas like New Orleans East. But it has been dogged by multiple controversies, including questions about the collection of personal data and whether the services would even end up being free or reaching meaningful numbers of people.

That scandal dogged the mayor throughout the week.

On Wednesday, City Council President Helena Moreno convened a hearing over it at which Jonathan Rhodes, Cantrell’s utilities chief and the figure at the center of the pay-to-play allegations, appeared.

Rhodes, who she has thus far stood by despite allegations he sought to profit from his position, bumbled his way through an hours long oversight hearing.

At the same time, Moreno and other council members appear likely to bring in an outside

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counsel to conduct the investigation. According to sources familiar with the discussions, the hope is that an impartial third party would eliminate any hint of politics being at play in the investigation.

Following that hearing, the council unanimously voted to ask the city Inspector General to launch an investigation into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds her administration has given to her nonprofit group, Forward Together New Orleans.

The council then voted unanimously to freeze money in the Wisner Fund from which much of those funds came from.

Later in the afternoon, the state legislature voted 91-3 in a direct rebuke of Cantrell to give the council oversight of the Sewerage & Water Board, of which she is president. Cantrell has lobbied hard against the plan, which has been backed by Council Vice President JP Morrell, accusing Morrell and others of playing politics with the SW&B. But in the end, only one member of the city’s delegation, Rep. Mandie Landry, voted with Cantrell.

Cantrell was in Washington, D.C. for an African American Mayors Association Meeting during Wednesday’s marathon of bad news. But Tuesday evening, she sent a blistering letter to the council in which she sought to place the blame for the collapse of the controversial WiFi project on them and issued a not-so-thinly veiled threat if the investigations continue.

“The Council’s investigatory authority is limited by the City Charter and we will not allow them to exceed their authority or abuse their power,” Cantrell wrote.

Cantrell also said the Rhodes scandal is part of an effort by Morrell and others to change the charter to give the council confirmation powers over some future top administration officials — and that it has hurt the feelings of members of the administration.

“That’s badly damaging the morale of my team — which has carried this City through three and a half years of overlapping crises … the barbed rhetoric being turned on them now is disrespectful, it is hurtful and it is counter-productive,” the mayor wrote.

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Morrell and Council Member Lesli Harris, who backs the charter change, fired back in their own letter Wednesday.

“Our city is in crisis. Our citizens are frustrated and upset. On these points we agree. However, we have a distinct perspective on the root of this concern. The citizens of New Orleans have lost faith in government,” Morrell and Harris wrote in their letter, adding “The tone-deaf nature of your correspondence, which reads as a litany of grievances perpetuated by the Council against you as a person, is as jarring as it is disheartening.

Accountability is not an attack.

Mayoral confirmation is about the public having the ability, through the Council, to publicly review and interview candidates to run the departments that affect the lives of the people of this city.”

In a bit of good news for New Orleanians, the council Wednesday began the process of implementing a deal with Cantrell that will ensure funding for a new power substation for SW&B is not delayed.

According to council sources, under the arrangement the city will

use money from a pandemic related line of credit — known as a certificate of indebtedness — to make the first of two $15 million payments for the plant. Although the payment won’t actually be made until May 13, Entergy — which is building the plant — on April 25 informed the city it wouldn’t further disrupt the project’s timeline.

“The substation is the most important infrastructure project for residents and the city. We need a newer, cleaner, and more reliable power source to power pumps during rainstorms and hurricanes.

This pot of money will be used to get the substation online as fast as possible so that we are not constantly relying on ancient power during these storms,” Council Budget Chairman Joe Giarrusso told Gambit.

The substation was originally supposed to be funded equally by the city, the Sewerage & Water Board and Entergy, with each responsible for $30 million in costs. But earlier this year Entergy abruptly pulled out of the funding agreement, citing Hurricane Ida losses.

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ALTHOUGH AN OFFICIAL TALLY IS NOT YET AVAILABLE , the city’s tourism

promotion entity New Orleans & Co. estimates more than 800,000 people enjoyed this year’s French Quarter Festival. It was a beautiful weekend for the city’s first major festival in three years. Even a bit of late rain on April 24 couldn’t bring down festival goers’ spirits.

It forced only short delays and truncated sets from the day’s last few performers.

The performers clearly enjoyed themselves, too. Many of them, like Tank and the Bangas, Christian Bold and the On the Levee Jazz Band to name but a few, put on memorable shows.

And while some of us may have forgotten personal space boundaries as we enjoyed ourselves, minor transgressions of festival etiquette were easily forgiven. After all, it had been more than two years since so many New Orleanians fested anywhere but on their porches or in their living rooms. Some were bound to be a bit rusty.

Best of all, the fest put broad smiles on the throngs of locals who once again shared the excitement of hearing and dancing to live music and enjoying delicious food and too much drink. We saw no heated arguments, let alone fights. That’s better than one could reasonably expect from 800,000 clerics gathered on Easter Sunday.

Originally a festival of local music for locals, FQF’s nearly 40-year run has drawn more and more tourists.

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That’s critically important as we enter May, with hurricane season and the brutal heat of summer bearing down on us. In a few weeks the flow of tourists will recede, and most New Orleanians will turn their focus back to our city’s many challenges.

Since Hurricane Ida, many New Orleanians questioned why they continue to live here. For two years, we endured all of our city’s endemic hardships — heat, storms, violence and crumbling infrastructure — without our traditional opportunities to enjoy what makes living here bearable.

That’s what has made the stretch since mid-February so important, and so welcome. We had Carnival parades and Mardi Gras. The Big Chiefs put on successive Super Sundays filled with music, joy and reconnection to neighborhood roots. Easter Sunday saw picture-perfect weather for a number of parades. And most recently we enjoyed an enormous, free festival — all without significant Covid spikes or public safety issues. Ah, springtime in New Orleans.

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Cantrell aide’s ‘unbelievable’ testimony convinced no one MANY PUBLIC SERVANTS LEVERAGE THEIR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE into

private sector lucre, but most have the patience to leave public service first. Jonathan Rhodes apparently is a man in a hurry.

As Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s director of utilities, Rhodes is literally a department of one. On the side, he represents himself to big tech companies and potential investors (the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, Rhodes admits) as an expert on “smart cities” technology that can bring low-cost Internet access to the underserved masses — and earn gazillions in profits for investors.

To that end, Rhodes and another Cantrell aide, IT advisor Christopher Wolff, formed a Delaware corporation called Verge Internet Inc. A company profile touts Verge as “disrupting the outdated model of Internet service providers” — and solicits $5 million from investors, even as both men work full-time at City Hall on a local smart cities program.

In truth, Verge has no client list, no assets, no employees, nor even a bank account. Rhodes admitted that much and more under oath before the City Council on April 27.

His testimony was compelled by council subpoena and kicked off a formal council investigation into the local smart cities program.

During three hours of intense questioning, Rhodes made other interesting admissions.

• He provided free assistance to Qualcomm as the tech giant drafted a smart cities proposal to the City of Los Angeles.

• He arranged a Jan. 5, 2021 meeting of Cantrell, Wolff, and representatives of Qualcomm and tech consultant Ignite Cities to discuss the scope of a smart cities project in New Orleans. Two days after that meeting, Ignite Cities managing partner George Burciaga emailed meeting participants (including Rhodes and Wolff) seeking another meeting “to review procurement requirements and other related topics.”

• On Jan. 21, Rhodes emailed Burciaga a draft of the city’s

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Jonathan Rhodes, director of the Mayor’s Office of Utilities.

“Scope of Services for a comprehensive smart city program,” asking for his “insight.” That was three months before Team Cantrell issued a formal request for proposals for the smart cities contract.

• Rhodes initially claimed he played no role in drafting the bid specs, but later admitted he and Wolff did play a role. As utilities director, Rhodes would oversee the smart cities program.

As luck would have it (wink-wink, nudge-nudge), the QualcommIgnite Cities consortium scored highest and inked a deal with Cantrell. Second-place finisher Cox Communications cried foul, setting off a spate of revelations that led to the council investigation.

On April 25, two days before Rhodes testified about his “pro bono” dealings with Qualcomm and other potential conflicts of interest, the consortium abruptly pulled out of the deal, citing “significant uncertainty surrounding the future of the project.”

Unlike Rhodes, Qualcomm knew when to cut bait. Rhodes, an attorney, appeared before the council without counsel. District B Council member Lesli Harris, also an attorney, later told me Rhodes’ testimony was “literally unbelievable.”

District C Council member Freddie King III, another attorney, pointedly asked Rhodes, “Do you at all see how this looks, publicly, how this looks bad?”

“I do,” said Rhodes.

That much, at least, was believable.

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A recent article on Xavier University’s plans to open a medical school mentioned the John D. Flint Medical College as one of the last historically Black medical schools in the area. Where was it located and when?

Dear reader,

JOHN D. FLINT MEDICAL COLLEGE,

named for a Massachusetts philanthropist, has its roots in New Orleans University, which would later become part of Dillard University.

The medical school was established in 1896 as one of the few medical schools for Black students at that time. It was affiliated with the Phyllis Wheatley Sanitarium and Training School for Negro Nurses. Both schools were located at Canal and Robertson streets.

“The Flint Medical College has been prominent among the Negro colleges of the country and graduates from it have taken a leading place among practitioners of the race in their national medical associations,” reported The TimesPicayune in 1913, two years after the medical school closed its doors.

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Dillard University After the medical college closed, the buildings were converted into a 50-bed hospital known as FlintGoodridge Hospital. The new name incorporated the Sarah Goodridge Hospital and Nurses Training School, which had been affiliated with Flint since 1901.

In 1930, money was raised for a new hospital facility. The new Flint-Goodridge opened in 1932 at 2425 Louisiana Ave. It served the city’s Black community for decades. The city’s first three Black mayors, Ernest Morial, Sidney Barthelemy and Marc Morial, were all born there.

The hospital closed in 1983 and is now an apartment complex.

BL AKEVIE W COPIES OF THIS YEAR’S OFFICIAL NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL POSTER — with artist Terrance Osborne’s fantastic depiction of Jon Batiste

— will no doubt sell briskly at the Fair Grounds as the fest closes out its second weekend. That’s a far cry from the lackluster sales of the first Jazz Fest poster in 1975 when creator Bud Brimberg profited less than $500.

At the time, Brimberg was a Tulane law student who signed up for a business class where his assignment was to create a business plan. He came up with the idea of a collectible Jazz Fest poster. Unlike posters in the festival’s early years, his was not designed to promote the dates of the event or sell tickets. It was intended to commemorate the event and create additional revenue. Initially, Jazz Fest producer Quint Davis was not enthused, until Brimberg offered a percentage of gross from the first dollar he took in.

The first limited edition silk-screen poster by Sharon Dinkins and Thorn Grafton depicted a jazz band’s grand marshal holding an umbrella. The poster sold for $3.95. In later years, collectors would pay close to $5,000 for one.

In 1976, Brimberg added an artist-signed edition of numbered posters.

Since then, more than a half million posters have been sold. In 1994, the festival also began offering a series of Congo Square posters.

In 1989, Brimberg’s company, ProCreations Publishing, honored Fats Domino with the first in its performer poster series. Domino and artist Richard Thomas signed 500 numbered prints. Subsequent posters have honored Louis Armstrong, Dr. John, Pete Fountain, Mahalia Jackson, Irma Thomas, Al Hirt, Louis Prima, Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Aaron Neville and others.

The posters and BayouWear clothing are now created and distributed

by Art4now. This year marks Osborne’s sixth Jazz Fest poster (including two Congo Square posters). Other noted artists to have created festival posters include George Rodrigue, James Michalopoulos, Peter Max, Tony Bennett, George Dureau and Garland Robinette.

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There’s plenty to choose from on the second weekend. “Locals Thursday” brings bluegrass phenom Billy Strings, Ziggy Marley, a Dirty Dozen Brass Band tribute to Dave Bartholomew featuring an appearance from Elvis Costello and Leo Nocentelli playing music off his lost album from the ’70s (see page 17). Friday brings the Black Crowes, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Busta Rhymes, Cimafunk (see page 5) and an all-star tribute to Art and Charles Neville. Saturday is headlined by women rock stars, including Stevie Nicks, Erykah Badu, Melissa Etheridge, Rickie Lee Jones, Puss N Boots, Samantha Fish and more. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue close out the festival on Sunday, and there are also sets by Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Buddy Guy, Kool & the Gang, Irma Thomas, Jimmy Buffett and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.

The second weekend features more commemorative second lines and tributes to musicians and culture bearers lost since the last festival. The Cultural Exchange Pavilion will host a variety of acts, rather than focusing on a single cultural or national theme. The AARP Rhythmpourium will host music performances, and its schedule is included on the cubes (see page 30-35).

The festival’s final weekend runs Thursday, May 5, through Sunday, May 8. Single-day tickets are $80 in advance or $90 at the gate. Tickets for children under 11 are $5 and available at the gate only when accompanied by an adult. Thursday features a special admission offer for Louisiana residents. With a state ID, patrons can purchase $50 tickets good for admission on that day only. See nojazzfest.com for details on tickets, food and craft vendors on the grounds, and lists of what fans can and cannot bring onto festival grounds.

This issue of Gambit has band previews, daily picks, cubes and a map. Visit bestofneworleans. com for more Jazz Fest previews and daily coverage. See y’all at the fest!

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Leo Nocentelli performs at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

“SEE, THERE’S TWO SIDES to

every story.”

Guitarist Leo Nocentelli adjusts the ever-present shades below his ever-present cap — a gray and suede one balancing itself atop his thick, dark hair. Outside in the backyard sunshine, one of the funk icon’s granddaughters shrieks the way only a delighted 6-year-old can.

Nocentelli is seated at the kitchen table in his daughter Toi’s home in Treme, not far from the 7th Ward neighborhood where he spent much of his own childhood. A painting Toi identifies as an original Basquiat adorns a wall in the corner of the open space, its earth tones and layers leading the eye to the artist’s familiar black crown near the center of the piece.

“I wish there was an 8-track, 2-inch master that I could have fixed all the flaws that I thought was on there,” Nocentelli says.

“However, there’s another side to that: Had I fixed all the flaws, we wouldn’t be sitting here talking like this.”

Now 75 years old, The Meters cofounder is referring to his stunning old-but-brand-new solo debut, “Another Side.”

Nocentelli and Light in the Attic Records released the now critically acclaimed album on Nov. 19, 2021, nearly half a century after Nocentelli recorded it at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in the early 1970s.

The Meters had briefly split up at the time, but when they

reconvened for a new label deal, Nocentelli says the master “went on a shelf” at Allen Toussaint’s Sea-Saint studio. It was presumably still on that shelf on Aug. 29, 2005, when the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, flooding Toussaint’s historic Gentilly recording space and destroying it beyond repair.

The story picks up in January 2018 when, the Los Angeles Times reported, 16 boxes of master recordings labeled with names like “Irma Thomas” and “The Meters” had surfaced at a flea market in Torrance, California. A vendor had purchased the boxes of tapes from a foreclosed unit in Hollywood and was showing them to Mike Nishita, a DJ and regular at the market. Nishita recognized Toussaint’s name and address and the names of the artists and purchased every single box.

On his way home, the LA Times wrote, Nishita called up his friend Mario Caldato, the Beastie Boys’ in-house audio engineer and co-producer for more than a decade, to show him what he’d found. They also called Nishita’s brother, who’d played keys for the hip-hop trio.

Eschewing music industry tradition, they then proceeded to do the right thing — twice.

First, Nishita got in touch with Nocentelli and sent him the quarter-inch master.

Though he remembered the songs when Nishita began rattling off their titles over the

ORIGINAL METER LEO NOCENTELLI WILL PLAY THE MUSIC OF HIS REDISCOVERED ‘ANOTHER SIDE’ ALBUM LIVE AT JAZZ FEST

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phone and says he’s recorded a few of the tunes as funk songs over the years, Nocentelli was amazed.

“I was shocked it was me at first,” Nocentelli says.

Next, Nishita and a mutual friend of Light in the Attic founder Matt Sullivan played the demo for him.

Sullivan told Gambit he immediately fell in love with the strippeddown sound and moving original lyrics, setting in motion a chain of equally unlikely events that led to the release of “Another Side” last fall.

Meanwhile, Nocentelli says listening to and eventually playing the music brought that former version of his artistic self into view in a new way.

“I became a part of that time [in my life] automatically,” he says. “It never left for me. While I thought [the recording] didn’t exist, it was gone. But once I found out it existed, it just became a part of me.

I knew the lyrics; I didn’t have to study them. When I’m rehearsing, it just pops in my head like it’s fresh-baked.”

Now, Nocentelli is ready to perform the music from “Another Side” live for the first time, at Jazz Fest’s Gentilly Stage on Thursday, May 5.

Whether or not he opts to move forward with the project by touring or adding new, similar tunes to match the “Another Side” repertoire, Nocentelli’s Jazz Fest performance is poised to be among the most significant

sets of his latter career, which has been characterized more by songwriting and recording work than playing live.

Nocentelli also returns to the Fair Grounds on Friday, May 6, for a funk set, followed by a tribute to his late bandmates and friends, Art and Charles Neville. Fellow Meter and longtime collaborator George Porter Jr. joins Nocentelli for all three shows — their shared decades of musical conversation and experience adding more layers of history to the mix. Together, the performances offer a rare window onto a more complete picture of Nocentelli’s evolution as an artist and his rich contributions to New Orleans music.

Marc Stone, who’s due to join the “Another Side” set on 12-string guitar, points out that it’s also rare for a musician at an advanced career stage “to have a completely new run as a different kind of artist than what you’re known for.”

As both a guitarist and a songwriter, Nocentelli has long been a centrifugal force in the development of the funk, rock and hip-hop that drew inspiration from The Meters.

Almost from their start in the late ’60s, the pioneering fourpiece was creative and flexible with their use of rhythm in ways other early funk acts were not.

Nocentelli often took cues from the jazz guitarists he was drawn to as a kid, writing lines for guitar and bass to play simultaneously, and he used time and space in

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unexpected ways while eking the deepest grooves out of even the smallest pick attacks.

When Art Neville hired Nocentelli for his first band, the Hawketts, the guitarist had already worked with Matassa and Toussaint for some time, having played as a teen on seminal recordings by Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, Otis Redding and others. The Hawketts eventually morphed into Art Neville and the Sounds, scoring gigs at the Nite Cap on Louisiana Avenue and Carondelet Street. Drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste was recruited from Deacon John’s group, Nocentelli recalls, before Porter joined the crew on bass in what would become The Meters.

“Art was such a balladeer, man,” Nocentelli says. “A lot of what I wrote for The Meters, I wrote with Art in mind. I loved the texture of his voice.”

While performing locally as The Meters, the foursome landed a deal with Josie Records. Though the relationship and label both went under, it was their debut, self-titled album for Josie that garnered the band’s first two big hits, 1969’s “Cissy Strut” and “Sophisticated Cissy.”

Two album releases later, however, Josie Records failed, leaving Nocentelli and his bandmates burned. By 1971, The Meters had gone their separate ways. Neville headed off to explore new projects, and Nocentelli, an “admirer of James Taylor,” picked up his albums “Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon” and “Sweet Baby James.”

“His acoustic playing on those records inspired me and prompted me to go buy a classical guitar because I wanted to sound like that,” Nocentelli says.

“I started looking at the chord progression of songs he wrote, like ‘I Was a Fool to Care’ and ‘Sweet Baby James,’ and … whoa.

As a funk player I’ve never played those chord progressions, so I started creating my own and incorporating some lyrics and developed them into songs.”

Over the course of about two months, Nocentelli recorded those tunes, plus a cover of Elton John’s “Your Song” at Matassa’s studio, with help from Porter on

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The Meters — from left, George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, Art Neville and Leo Nocentelli — in a promotional image used on the back of their 1969 second album, ‘Look-Ka Py Py.’ bass, Modeliste and James Black splitting drum duties and Allen Toussaint pitching in on a handful of tracks.

Matassa’s Jazz City on Camp Street was for many years the cornerstone of New Orleans’ recording industry. In the early 1970s, the Warehouse District was a rougher neighborhood.

“I remember always looking for a parking spot on Camp and Julia and it was a big area for winos,” Nocentelli cracks.

“The studio was on the second floor,” he says. “You walk to the back and get on this freight elevator. When you get on it you pull the rope to start the motor going to stop on the second floor.

That would be the entrance to the huge room. Then Cos has you walk almost half a block to get to the control room, but a lot of important stuff was recorded at that studio.”

He recorded the demo, but when Warner Bros. signed The Meters to its Reprise imprint, Nocentelli was suddenly due back at Sea-Saint, working on new Meters material.

“It was really rough, embryonic, unfinished stuff,” he says.

“I told Cosimo to make me a rough mix of it and I’ll go and listen at it later,” he adds.

The music’s raw sound is a complement to everything from the unexpectedly folk, country and jazz-inspired chord progressions to the muted intricacies of Nocentelli’s acoustic fingerwork.

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The songs likely would have resonated in the ’70s era that inspired them.

Today, something about the quiet calm and emotional honesty they convey make the tunes a welcome soundtrack to another pandemicclouded season.

“They’re simple, but there are certain songwriting elements Leo uses that never show up in The Meters,” Marc Stone says.

“They’re indicative of someone who knows how to use simple but unexpected devices to create motion and offset motion — to give you musical left turns.

“Then there are these really clever rhythmic and harmonic movements that give the songs their identity.”

A few of the songs also reflect Nocentelli’s proclivity for saying what he feels needs to be said, whether that means calling the local music industry on its long history of exploiting artists — particularly Black musicians — or, in the case of his favorite song on the album, expressing what another person can’t.

Asked about “You’ve Become a Habit,” whose lyrics detail the protagonist’s relationship with a prostitute named Fancy, Nocentelli says he was inspired by the 1963 film “Irma La Douce,” starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

“So Shirley MacLaine was a lady of the night and Jack Lemmon was some kind of train conductor,” Nocentelli says. “And they could not … it wasn’t acceptable to really say that in the movie, because back then you couldn’t just say, ‘She was a prostitute.’ But see, he had a relationship with her. And it wasn’t like they could say he fell in love with her back then. But I know what it was, so I wrote lyrics to say exactly what that was.”

Nocentelli bristles when asked about the “bad publishing deals” and other assorted ugliness that drove him to move to Los Angeles on more than one occasion.

That also made him lose interest in a career built on gigging, which remains central to New Orleans’ cultural economy.

“A lot of people think, ‘Oh these musicians, they’re just guys, they play, then they’re gonna ride off into the sunset,’” he says in a mocking tone. “Well, when they

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The cover of New Orleans guitarist Leo Nocentelli’s 2021 album ‘Another Side,’ released by Light In the Attic Records. Nocentelli, best known as a member of influential funk band The Meters, recorded the songs in the early 1970s, but the master tapes were lost for decades.

get too old and stop playing, do they go to the musicians’ graveyard? That’s not me. I paid my dues to learn my craft, and it’s a job.”

“When I was young I got trapped up in the music and not worried about the peripherals that accompanied it,” he adds. “And I’m still going through that but I’m aware of it now, so I could stop it in its tracks, cause it still exists.”

He says he sticks to performing when the circumstances make sense.

“I prefer to just lay low and get it right from A to Z with the right personnel and present it in the right way,” he says.

At Jazz Fest on May 5, he’ll be joined by Stone, Lo Faber and a third guitarist from Italy, helping to cover the overdubs he used on the original recording of “Another Side.” He’s also adding three backup singers, Margie Perez, Earl Smith and Jason Neville.

After the festival, he’ll return to working on some songs he wrote for Bruno Mars and Bonnie Raitt, plus a posthumous Bernie Worrell album he’s been working on in the studio since April, he says, ticking off plans.

“Anyway, that’s why I called it another side,” Nocentelli says.

“Because it was really another side of me.”

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Leo Nocentelli presents ‘Another Side’ 2:10 P.M.-3:10 P.M. SHELL GENTILLY STAGE Everyone knows Leo Nocentelli as the guitarist of New Orleans’ masters of funk, The Meters. But this set is focused on a lost project — an album he recorded in the 1970s that wasn’t released until 2021. Inspired by the likes of James Taylor, it featured his take on country and Western music (see pg. 17). Nocentelli also has a set not primarily focused on this album at 12:25 p.m. Friday on the main Festival Stage.

Corey Ledet Zydeco 3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE Accordionist and singer Corey Ledet hails from a family with generations of musicians, who performed with everyone from Bunk Johnson to zydeco pioneers Clifton Chenier and Rockin’ Dopsie Sr. In recent years, Ledet has worked with Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers in bands playing the music of Acadiana. Michot helped produce Ledet’s 2021 album “Corey Ledet

Zydeco,” which stretches from polished zydeco to an Acadian waltz to a cover of the rocking blues classic “Flip Flop and Fly.”

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traditions, spirituals and roots music sounds, all driven by the singing of Quiana Parler. Some of its more joyful, up-tempo, R&B stylings are infused with jazzy horn riffs from Charlton Singleton.

Billy Strings

3:35 P.M.-4:50 P.M. SHELL GENTILLY STAGE Dave Bartholomew was a trumpeter before he went to work for Imperial Records and crafted his big beat sound, shaping R&B and rock ’n’ roll. He wrote numerous hits with Fats Domino and is one of New Orleans’ legendary composers and producers. He also worked with Lloyd Price (“Lawdy Miss Clawdy”), Smiley Lewis (“I Hear You Knocking”) and many others. He died in 2019 at the age of 100. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band offers this tribute to Bartholomew and his music, with guest appearances by Elvis Costello and Al “Lil Fats” Jackson, who is best known for his tributes to Domino.

5:30 P.M.-7:00 P.M. SHELL GENTILLY STAGE Billy Strings won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for his 2019 release “Home,” and last year’s follow-up, “Renewal,” also went to the top of the Bluegrass charts. He grew up in Kentucky and Michigan playing bluegrass, like his father, who was not a professional musician. But his virtuoso guitar talents have made him a phenomenal performer whether he’s nimbly picking his way through a traditional bluegrass tune, playing acoustic folk and country or remaking psychedelic rock, Grateful Dead jams, metal or other songs.

Libby Rae Watson and the HooDoo Men

5:45 P.M.-7:00 P.M. BLUES TENT Bettye LaVette’s vocal talents were recognized at an early age, and she recorded her first hit as a teenager with “My Man — He’s a Lovin’ Man.” In her career, she’s ranged from soul and R&B, releasing an album for Motown, and rendering her own interpretations of British invasion rock classics. Following a string of releases for ANTI-, she’s focused more on blues in recent years. Her 2020 album “Blackbirds,” released on Verve, includes a cover of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and a slow, emotional take on The Beatles’ “Blackbird.”

3:55 P.M.-4:55 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE A native of Pascagoula, guitarist Libby Rae Watson took up the mantle of Mississippi’s traditional blues styles of Son House and Mississippi John Hurt. She often performs solo, but for this set she’s backed by long-time collaborators Bill Steber, Sammy Baker and Sam Rorex as the HooDoo Men.

Le’Andria Johnson 4:05 P.M.-5:05 P.M. GOSPEL TENT Le’Andria Johnson has one of the more powerful voices in contemporary gospel and it has helped propel her popular appeal. She won a Grammy for Best Gospel/ Contemporary Christian Music Performance, won the BET network’s gospel singing competition “Sunday Best” and two of her albums topped the Billboard gospel charts, most recently in 2017 with “Bigger Than Me.”

Ranky Tanky 4:25 P.M.-5:35 P.M. SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE Ranky Tanky takes its name and inspiration from the Gullah culture of African descendants in coastal South Carolina and Georgia. The group combines Gullah musical

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Brothers Tommy, Rick, Mike, Bobby and David Michot formed the band back in the mid-1980s, and it now spans multiple generations. The Jazz Fest set includes original members Tommy, Rick and Bobby, along with Tommy’s sons — Grammy winners Louis and Andre of the Lost Bayou Ramblers — and Rick’s son, Patrick. It will be this incarnation of the group’s first time playing together at the festival.

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12:20 P.M.-1:20 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE The Batiste family tree of musicians runs deep in New Orleans, with counts at more than 25 players spread across the branches, including Jon Batiste, who repped New Orleans in his recent high-profile Grammy wins. One branch of the family, David Batiste Fathers and Sons features keyboardist David Batiste Sr. — who led the funk group The Gladiators — and his sons Russell, Jamal, Ryan and Damon. At Jazz Fest, they will be joined by South African musicians Mpume, Nikki Williams and others.

Cimafunk 12:25 P.M.-1:30 P.M. JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE 4:15 P.M.-5:15 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE If funk icon George Clinton features on your album and calls you “the next one,” then you’re doing something right. That’s the case for Afro-Cuban funk phenom Cimafunk (see pg. 5), who released his latest album, “El Alimento,” last year — and celebrated by rocking the Broadside in New Orleans. Not content with just conquering Cuba,

Cimafunk has set his sights on New Orleans as well — he played the Broadside last week, plays there again on May 5, and has two sets at Jazz Fest.

Tribute to Art and Charles Neville 1:45 P.M.-3:05 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE Former bandmates and family members celebrate the lives of brothers Art and Charles Neville, who died in July 2019 and April 2018, respectively. The tribute will feature George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Charmaine Neville and more.

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Big Freedia 2:55 P.M.-3:50 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Things are busy in the Queen Diva’s world: Big Freedia (see pg.

40) recently filmed for the reboot of “College Hill,” has new music on the way, is working on a kids’ project and a boutique hotel in New Orleans and will be touring with Trombone Shorty throughout the summer. Catch Freedia at Jazz Fest while you can.

Tommy McLain & CC Adcock 4:30 P.M.-5:25 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE Though he plays several instruments, early swamp-pop star Tommy McLain is best known for singing on the 1966 single “Sweet Dreams.” His crooning is more gravelly now, but this summer, McLain is set to release “I Ran Down Every Dream,” his first album in four decades, with contributions from Ivan Neville, Van Dyke Parks and fellow swamp-pop legend Bobby Charles.

Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe cowrote some songs on the album.

McLain is joined for this set by guitarist CC Adcock, who produced the album.

Newport All-Stars 5:45 P.M.-7:00 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT There wouldn’t be a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival without George Wein. The founder of Jazz Fest — and the Newport Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival — died last September at the age of 95. A pianist, Wein every year hand-picked a group of musicians,

the Newport All-Stars, to play with during the Newport Jazz Festival.

At the New Orleans Jazz Fest, a host of Newport All-Stars alums, including Howard Alden, Anat Cohen and Christian Sands, will pay tribute to Wein.

Busta Rhymes 5:45 P.M.-7:00 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE After more than 30 years in hiphop, Busta Rhymes has comfortably slid into the living legend category.

He’s got the same energy, vocal punch and lyrical speed, but he’s going at the pace he wants. It took 22 years, but the emcee released “Extinction Level Event 2” in 2020, the sequel to his acclaimed 1998 record, and his first studio album in eight years.

The Black Crowes 5:35 P.M.-7:00 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson filled the ’90s and early-aughts with hard rock, hard partying and fights so hard it shocked Liam and Noel Gallagher, but somehow they survived. The Southern rockers disbanded The Black Crowes in the early 2000s, reunited a few years later and then broke up again. But they’ve decided once more to bury the hatchet — at least long enough to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Black Crowes’ debut album “Shake Your Money Maker” with a national tour. They will play the album in its entirety along with other hits.

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S AT U R D A Y Seratones 12:35 P.M.-1:35 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE The members of Shreveport’s Seratones met at punk rock shows, and the band’s early live performances radiated with punk energy.

But the band’s sound has evolved into a grooving mix of rock and soul. AJ Haynes’ sultry vocals glide over synth rhythms on its latest album, February’s “Love & Algorhythms,” released last week on New West Records. It’s a follow-up to Seratones’ 2019 breakout release “Power,” and it puts the band back on track with a new tour following the pandemic shutdowns.

Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs 1:30 P.M.-2:20 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Jon Batiste’s “Freedom” video beat Shamarr Allen’s “Dance With Me” to the punch. Allen’s recently released video for the song on his new album, “True Orleans 2,” features him dancing on the streets — including under the Claiborne overpass — with local Carnival marching groups and high school marching bands, as well as recording in the studio and visiting local spots. It’s more of a grooving soul song, as Allen invites listeners to the party. It features cameos from local musicians including Kermit Ruffins and Big Sam Williams and shows Allen is at the heart of the local music scene, from his years trumpeting in the Rebirth Brass Band to leading his Underdawgs and producing his own albums. Like the previous album, “True Orleans 2” features him incorporating all sorts of local sounds. It will be released on May 6.

Samantha Fish 2:00 P.M.-3:10 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE On records, Samantha Fish has focused on concepts, such as the throwback ’60s and ’70s rock of

“Chills & Fever,” the stripped-down Mississippi-style blues of “Belle of the West” and the blazing guitar rock of 2021’s “Faster.” But local audiences know that the draw to her live shows is listening to her shred guitar solos on stage.

William Prince 2:15 P.M.-3:25 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE With his deep voice, singer William Prince is a rising star folk artist with his feet in two worlds. His ancestry is Peguis First Nation in Canada, and many of the men in his family embraced Christianity. His original songs address his family’s history and issues for First Nation people in Canada. Prince has won awards in Canadian folk and indigenous music. He released two albums in 2020, and the second one, “Gospel First Nation,” explores country gospel sounds and includes originals and covers such as Charley Pride’s “All His Children.”

Puss N Boots

a folk band, Alynda Segarra built Hurray for the Riff Raff into a rootsy alt-pop juggernaut. Segarra released a string of albums while moving to Nashville, then back to their native New York and to New Orleans again. “Life on Earth,” released in February on Nonesuch Records, ranges from the fun lyrics and catchy hooks of “Rhododendron” to the more haunting, socially conscious song “Pierced Arrows.”

5:30 P.M.-7:00 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE Based on just the enduring appeal of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album “Rumours,” Stevie Nicks could probably tour for life. Her then slightly raspy vocals on “Dreams” and “Gold Dust Woman” still resonate. She also had hits from her solo recordings and collaborations, such as “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Tom Petty. But the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer keeps getting more popular, even in the strange dress-alike fandom of her fashion style, which some dub gypsy or wiccan-like attire.

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3:05 P.M.-4:05 P.M. SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE Who wouldn’t want to cover a song

by Dolly Parton? Certainly, Norah Jones can if she wants to — after collecting nine Grammys and selling more than 50 million albums. She and fellow jazz vocalist Sasha Dobson joined with Catherine Popper, a singer and vocalist with a background in rock and country, to form Puss N Boots. Based out of the small tumbleweed town of Brooklyn, the trio harmonizes with barely a trace of twang over a repertoire of gentle alternative country, folk and Americana. Jones has her own set at 5:40 p.m. Sunday in the WWOZ Jazz Tent.

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Wayne Toups

3:40-4:40

Marcia Ball

2:10-3:15

Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys

12:45-1:45

Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue

11:20-12:20

Billy Strings

5:30-7:00

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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s Tribute to Dave Bartholomew

3:35-4:50

Leo Nocentelli presents “Another Side”

2:10-3:10

New Orleans Suspects

12:45-1:45

The Iguanas

11:20-12:20

Ziggy Marley

5:30-7:00

Playing For Change Band

3:35-4:50

Kermit Ruffins and The Barbecue Swingers

2:00-3:05

Nigel Hall

12:40-1:40

Claude Bryant and The AllStars

11:20-12:20

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Thana Alexa, BIGYUKI & Lex Sadler

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Herlin Riley

Bettye LaVette

5:45-7:00

Mr. Sipp

4:15-5:15

Jimmy Hall

Lawrence Sieberth’s VooDooTek

4:15-5:20

2:50-3:50

Jonathon Long

1:35-2:25

Walter Wolfman Washington

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2:50-3:50

Tony Dagradi and Down Time

1:30-2:30

Blodie’s Jazz Jam

12:20-1:15

12:20-1:10

Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble

6:00-7:00

Ranky Tanky

4:25-5:35

Corey Ledet Zydeco

3:00-4:00

Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs

1:35-2:35

The Daiquiri Queens

12:25-1:15

The Rayo Brothers

11:15-12:05

Da Truth Brass Band

5:40-6:45

Mariachi Jalisco

4:30-5:20

Sons of Jazz Brass Band

3:10-4:10

Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.

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The Rumble

1:55-2:45

Playing For Change Band

12:30-1:30

Mardi Gras Indians

Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows

11:20-12:05

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Mass Choir

6:10-6:50

Keyla Richardson

5:20-6:00

Le’Andria Johnson

4:05-5:05

Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL

3:00-3:45

Pastor Mitchell J. Stevens

2:10-2:50

Joanna Hale-McGill

1:20-2:00

The Gospel Inspirations of Boutte

12:35-1:10

The Trio Plus One

11:50-12:25

New Orleans Council on Aging Community Choir

11:15-11:40

Daria & The Hip Drops

5:20-6:30

Libby Rae Watson and the HooDoo Men

3:55-4:55

Mikayla Braun

2:30-3:30

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Ted Hefko & The

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The Pfister Sisters’ Tribute to The Andrews Sisters

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Doyle Cooper Jazz Band

4:25-5:25

Banu Gibson

3:05-4:05

Louis Ford & His New Orleans Flairs

1:40-2:40

DinosAurchestra

12:25-1:20

Andrew Hall’s Society Brass Band

Troy Turner’s Blues Band

Xavier University Jazz Ensemble

Joe Krown & Jason Ricci

11:15-12:05

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Treces del Sur Latin Music Band

4:40-5:30

Mardi Gras Indians

4:15-4:30

Da Truth Brass Band

3:10-4:05

Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians

2:00-2:45

Mariachi Jalisco

12:50-1:40

Pardon My French!

11:30-12:30

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Curley Taylor and Friends

4:15-5:00

Paky Saavedra’s Quartet

2:50-3:35

Joy Clark

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The Black Crowes

5:35-7:00

Boz Scaggs

3:35-4:50

Tribute to Art and Charles Neville with the Funky Meters and Ivan Neville & The Neville Brothers Band featuring Cyril and Charmaine Neville

1:45-3:05

Leo Nocentelli

12:25-1:20

Flow Tribe

Elvis Costello & The Imposters

5:30-7:00

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

3:40-4:50

Chris Isaak

2:15-3:15

The Cowsills

12:45-1:45

Kinfolk Brass Band

Busta Rhymes

5:45-7:00

Cimafunk (of Cuba)

4:15-5:15

Big Freedia

2:55-3:50

Erica Falls

1:40-2:35

James Rivers Movement

D’Batiste Fathers and Sons featuring Russell, Jamal, Ryan, David, Mpume & Special Guests of Africa

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Newport AllStars Celebrate George Wein featuring Howard Alden, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen, Jay Leonhart, Lewis Nash, Christian Sands, and Lew Tabackin

5:45-7:00

Gabrielle Cavassa and Phillip Manuel: Tribute to Allen Toussaint

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Adonis Rose and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes

5:40-7:00

Sonny Landreth

4:10-5:10

Davell Crawford

The Nayo Jones Experience

4:15-5:25

2:50-3:50

New Orleans Jazz Vipers

5:45-6:45

Wendell Brunious All Stars

4:25-5:25

Steve Pistorius: A Tribute to The New Orleans Rhythm Kings

3:05-4:05

Louis Armstrong’s Allstars Tribute with Charlie Halloran

1:40-2:40

Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars

6:00-7:00

The Campbell Brothers

4:20-5:35

Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band

2:55-3:55

Feufollet

1:40-2:35

Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition

12:25-1:20

Les Freres Michot

New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra

12:25-1:20

11:15-12:00

11:15-12:05

Papo y Son Mandao

5:40-6:45

Midnite Disturbers

4:25-5:15

Boudreaux Family of Feathers

3:10-4:00

Stooges Brass Band

1:55-2:45

Cimafunk (of Cuba)

12:25-1:30

Mardi Gras Indians

Black Seminoles

11:20-12:00

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New Hope Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:00-6:45

Tonia Scott and the Anointed Voices

5:05-5:50

Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers

3:50-4:50

The Johnson Extension

2:45-3:30

The Zion Harmonizers

1:50-2:35

Shades of Praise New Olreans Interracial Gospel Choir

12:55-1:40

Zulu Gospel Male Ensemble

12:05-12:45

Audrey Ferguson & The Voices of Distinction

11:15-11:55

James Martin Band

5:45-6:30

Tommy McLain + CC Adcock

4:30-5:25

‘Remembering George Wein’ with the Newport All-Stars and Ashley Kahn

3:25-4:15

Tommy Malone

2:10-3:10

Patrice Fisher & Arpa with special guests from Cuba

12:50-1:45

Lane Mack

11:30-12:25

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Sonny Landreth, CC Adcock, and Lee Allen Zeno

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Tribute to Lil Buck Sinegal

1:25-2:30

Shannon Powell and Darren Hoffman

Uncle Nef

12:15-1:05

2:50-3:50

Stanton Moore

1:30-2:30

12:20-1:10

J. Monque’D Blues Band

Loyola University Jazz Ensemble

Stooges Brass Band

12:20-1:20

11:15-12:00

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4:45-5:45

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Rebirth Brass Band

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Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs

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Michael Ward & Sons

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David Sanborn

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John Boutté

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Jesse McBride Big Band

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Jason Marsalis

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Jeremy Davenport

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Melissa Etheridge

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Kenny Neal

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Preservation Brass

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Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony

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Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band with Thais Clark and Maynard Chatters

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Palmetto Bug Stompers

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Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience

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Shovels & Rope

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Puss N Boots

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Bruce Daigrepoint Cajun Band

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Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole

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Storyville Stompers Brass Band

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Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles

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Javier Olondo and AsheSon

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Free Agents Brass Band

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Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective

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Mount Harmon Baptist Church Praise Congregation Choir

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Connie & Dwight Fitch with St. Raymond and St. Leo the Great Music Ministry

5:10-5:55

Dottie Peoples

3:55-4:55

Jonté Mayon

2:50-3:35

Pastor Jai Reed

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Jermaine Landrum & The Abundant Praise Revival Choir

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Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir

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New Orleans Gospel Soul Children

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The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars

5:20-6:30

Andrew Duhon

3:50-5:00

William Prince

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Shannon McNally

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Marina Orchestra

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Davell Crawford Tribute to James Booker

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Rory Block

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Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns

12:25-1:20

Bill Kirchen

Southern University Baton Rouge Jazzy Jags

Caren Green

Darcy Malone & the Tangle

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Mardi Gras Indians

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Storyville Stompers Brass Band

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Black Magic Drumline

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Javier Olondo and AsheSon

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Mardi Gras Indians

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Cedric Watson and Chris Stafford

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Mia Borders & Jesse Morrow

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Terry Huval & Sons

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Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band

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Irma Thomas

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MoFess

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Willie Nelson & Family

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The Radiators

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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

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Honey Island Swamp Band

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Alex McMurray and His Band

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Frankie Beverly

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Tonya BoydCannon

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Nicholas Payton

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Amina Figarova Sextet

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Phillip Manuel

Buddy Guy

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Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

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Tuba Skinny

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Mark Braud’s New Orleans Jazz Giants

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Gregg Stafford & His Young Tuxedo Brass Band

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Charlie Gabriel and Friends

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Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots

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Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

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Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers

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Yvette Landry & the Jukes

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New Breed Brass Band

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Bamboula 2000

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Herbert McCarver & The Pin Stripe Brass Band

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Mardi Gras Indians

Comanche Hunters

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Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise

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Arrianne Keelen

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The Davell Crawford Singers “The Tribute”

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Arthur and Friends Community Choir

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Evangelist Jackie Tolbert

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The Bester Gospel Singers and Dynamic Smooth Family of Slidell

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Bon Bon Vivant

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Helen Gillet

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Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand

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Mahmoud Chouki

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Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music

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Chris Thomas King

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Glen David Andrews Orchestra

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John Mooney & Bluesiana

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Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble

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11:15-12:05 Lars Edegran & the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

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New Birth Brass Band

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Big Chief Juan & Jockimo’s Groove

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Bill Summers & Jazalsa

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Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble

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Yvette Landry Trio

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Brother Tyrone & Everette Eglin

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Charlie Gabriel and Friends 12:25 P.M.-1:20 P.M. ECONOMY HALL TENT Saxophonist and clarinetist Charlie Gabriel has become one of the faces of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and a key player on the albums of original compositions it has put out in recent years, including the Cuban music-inspired “So It Is.” Gabriel has spent most of his life in the New Orleans jazz scene, from playing with brass bands to his tenure with Preservation Hall. At 89 years old, he recently released “89,” an album of originals and standards.

Tribute to Dr. John 12:30 P.M.-1:40 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE The world lost Dr. John since the last Jazz Fest, making this tribute the first one to him at the Fair Grounds. The all-star lineup includes Irma Thomas, Cyril Neville and John Boutte, and at the keyboards will be Ivan Neville, Jon Cleary, Davell Crawford and John “Papa” Gros.

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real 2:15 P.M.-3:30 P.M. SHELL GENTILLY STAGE There’s a Nelson family affair on

the Gentilly Stage on Sunday. Lukas Nelson goes first with his Promise of the Real band, which also has supported Neil Young in recording and touring since 2015. Though Lukas Nelson focuses on country and rock, he didn’t follow too closely in his father Willie Nelson’s footsteps. Lukas grew up in Hawaii and formed his band in California. Still, father and son worked together on Willie Nelson’s album “Heroes” and with Lukas’ brother Micah Nelson on “Willie Nelson & the Boys” and with more members of the clan on “The Willie Nelson Family,” released in November 2021. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real released “A Few Stars Apart” last year. Recorded during the pandemic, it’s got a Southern rock feel and many songs deal with overcoming hardships.

The Headhunters 4:20 P.M.-5:20 P.M. JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Herbie Hancock put together the influential jazz fusion band The Headhunters in 1973, and the original lineup featured percussionist and current New Orleanian Bill Summers, a master of polyrhythms.

Drummer Mike Clark was also a frequent collaborator with Hancock and a later member of the Headhunters. This Headhunters show features Summers, Clark and saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr.

Tuba Skinny 4:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M. ECONOMY HALL TENT For years, the easiest place to find the traditional jazz and roots music band Tuba Skinny was on the streets of the French Quarter or Frenchmen Street. That’s where blues singer — and “Midnight at the Oasis” one-hit wonder — Maria Muldaur found them. She and Tuba

Skinny released the album “Let’s Get Happy Together” last year. As Tuba Skinny has acquired more widespread listeners, the group decided to release an album of originals, which will be released May 6 with a show at the Tigermen Den. The new album, “Magnolia Stroll,” draws on the eight-piece band’s love of jug bands, string bands and roots music including early jazz, ragtime and country blues.

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly 5:35 P.M.-6:55 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Frankie Beverly formed his Philadelphia soul band in the 1970s, though Maze isn’t its original name.

The band recorded its landmark first live album in New Orleans at the Saenger Theatre in 1980, and the band’s live shows have been a Jazz Fest institution just about ever since.

Norah Jones 5:40 P.M.-7:00 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT Norah Jones is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of her album “Come Away With Me,” on which her soft voice seduced listeners with a blend of jazz, blues and folk. She followed with a string of successful albums and spent a decade as one of jazz’s most popular vocalists. She also performs with her country music-based band Puss N Boots on Saturday.

Willie Nelson & Family 5:40 P.M.-6:55 P.M. SHELL GENTILLY STAGE Willie Nelson turned 89 on April 29, and for his birthday, he released “A Beautiful Time.” After more than

70 studio albums, he’s still going strong. “A Beautiful Time” includes originals as well as covers of songs by the Beatles and Leonard Cohen.

Lukas Nelson sometimes performs with the Family band. See Lukas Nelson’s set at 2:15 p.m. on the Gentilly Stage.

Buddy Guy 5:45 P.M.-7:00 P.M. BLUES TENT In the recent documentary “The Torch,” Buddy Guy sort of explains his divorce by saying that he was told to choose between his marriage and his guitar. At 85, he’s still going strong. The Lettsworth, Louisiana, native established himself in the heart of Chicago’s blues scene, with his distinct, raw electric blues style that influenced musicians including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and many others.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 5:45 P.M.-7:00 P.M. FESTIVAL STAGE Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews has been everywhere during Jazz Fest — headlining his foundation’s Shorty Fest and leading an all-star lineup at the annual Treme Threauxdown concert. Andrews’ latest album, “Lifted,” was released last week by Blue Note Records. It’s a blend of rock, soul and funk, and it shows off his smooth, high-pitched singing on “Come Back” and in a duet with Lauren Daigle on “What It Takes.” Gary Clark Jr. also appears on the album, and some songs are grounded in local music, like “Everybody in the World,” which features the New Breed Brass Band.

He and Orleans Avenue deliver the festival’s closing set on its biggest stage.

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Corey Ledet Band THURSDAY, MAY 5 3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS-DO-DO STAGE Corey Ledet is dedicating his talents to keeping Creole and zydeco traditions alive and has drawn two Grammy nominations in recent years.

Though raised in Houston, Ledet’s family is from South Louisiana, and his Creole heritage has always influenced his way of life and music. He’s a talented multiinstrumentalist who plays accordion, drums, washboard, bass and rhythm guitar, and the fiddle — plus he sings in both English and in Kouri-Vini, a distinct Creole dialect of St. Martin Parish. Notable influences include Clifton Chenier, John Delafose and Boozoo Chavis.

Ledet says he hits the road as much as possible to play in New Orleans, two hours away from his home in the tiny town of Parks in St. Martin Parish.

“Any time I can get over there, I’m there,” he says.

The COVID-19 shutdowns and the loss of gigs spurred him to get a day job in an Amazon warehouse, but he’s been steadily booking more shows and hopes the momentum will continue long after festival season ends.

Recently, Ledet jammed at French Quarter Fest with Soul Creole, which he describes as an improvisational Francophone group. “We don’t really practice or rehearse,” he says. “We kinda just get up there and play whatever pops into our heads.”

At Jazz Fest, he’s looking forward to playing songs off “Corey Ledet Zydeco,” which was released last year on Louis Michot’s Nouveau Electric Records and was nominated for a 2022 Grammy.

— SARAH RAVITS

Libby Rae Watson THURSDAY, MAY 5 3:55 P.M.-4:55 P.M. LAGNIAPPE STAGE Smitten with the blues since the age of 14, musician Libby Rae Watson’s distinctive voice captivates listeners. After discovering a songbook filled with music from

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Watson was later mentored by Sam Chatmon, who at the time was the last surviving member of the Mississippi Sheiks, and she spent time with many of the Delta’s biggest names. Her song “Big Joe,” for instance, is based on a true story about the first time she met the legendary bluesman in 1978.

Watson’s art of storytelling accompanies her uncanny mastery of the strings. As a Mississippi native, her love for her home is expressed in “Darkness on the Delta,” and the single is a mixture of country blues and soulful brass.

The way she sees it, she never had to seek out the blues. It came to her and has stayed with her ever since.

“I didn’t plan to go ‘find’ the Blues,” Watson says on her website. “The Blues found me. I’ve been consumed by it for over 40 years!”

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Zulu Gospel Male Ensemble FRIDAY, MAY 6 12:05 P.M.-12:45 P.M. GOSPEL TENT The Zulu Gospel Male Ensemble is a group of roughly 50 members of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, who are best known for their Fat Tuesday parade that celebrates Black culture and history.

In 1980, Ernest George, who had been a member of the organization since the early 1970s, founded the singing group.

“He and a group of members discussed the need of the organization to extend its community involvement as a whole, into the realm of religious participation,” says Clarence Becknell, the club’s historian. “Affiliation with the [choir] offers an outlet to us and to those who seek an outlet from the ills of society.”

Since its inception, the choir has been a fixture at local churches and festivals and has also recorded two albums.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the group of men particularly hard, and at the festival they hope for a sense of healing, not just within their community but also for their audience.

“The object is pure and direct,” Becknell says. “Give obedience to God first.” — SARAH RAVITS

Big Freedia FRIDAY, MAY 6 2:55 P.M.-3:50 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Big Freedia has played massive stages and music festivals around the world, but the Queen Diva traces it all back to the small New Orleans clubs where the bounce scene developed and thrived.

“I was working seven days in a week,” she says. “Each night I

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had a different club, representin’ something different. We did everything from a bounce night to a drag show, to whatever it is that I wanted to do. We created these moments at all of these clubs growing up in New Orleans, and it definitely was the bounce scene and what helped shape who I am and the community around it.”

First, it really started with Josephine Street and the neighborhood where Big Freedia grew up, she says, and the residents around the area who helped shape the early years. And then there’s the clubs.

She lists them off rapid-fire: Club Sam’s, Club Focus, Kenny’s Key West, Club Rumors and many others. “Oh my God, there have been so many clubs I’ve done over the years that have helped shape who I am and shape the scene of bounce music,” Big Freedia says.

There also was Club Unlimited, Club 2001, New Jack’s and Club Xscape. Many of those venues have closed, and some have been replaced by new bars. But “it’s just not the same old feeling it was back then when it was in the early, beginning stages of a lot of our careers,” she says.

Still, there’s a lot of stages Big Freedia likes to play in New Orleans: The Republic, the Hookah Joynt, The Hangover Bar and One Eyed Jacks. “But you know all of the local spots that still book me, I love to perform at them all because it’s home,” she says.

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Pell SATURDAY, MAY 7 2:40 P.M.-3:35 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Pell, the stage name for Jared Pellerin, is a rapper, singer, songwriter and producer who is pioneering his own sound. His music stems from his life experiences and the thoughts of his subconscious, using the element of transparency to acknowledge various topics such as navigating life in one’s 20s and understanding the road to success.

He’s also one of the founders of New Orleans hip-hop collective glbl wrmng, an eclectic, socially conscious crew of artists. Glbl wrmng includes some of the city’s best new rappers and producers, including $leazy EZ, Alfred Banks, Kr3wcial and others.

In his albums, Pell characterizes himself as a dreamer through his psychedelic tone enhanced with soul. A New Orleans native, Pell spent time in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina and lived in Los Angeles for several years before returning home in 2020. That

move, Pell says, helped solidify his sound, melding his cultural roots with the tools he picked up on the West Coast.

“I feel like nothing has grounded me more than these past couple of years, with the pandemic and this new life in New Orleans that has birthed a lot of what I pay attention to and a lot of what I work on now,” Pell told Gambit last year.

— KHAYLA A. GASTON

Tonya Boyd-Cannon SUNDAY, MAY 8 12:40 P.M.-1:40 P.M. CONGO SQUARE STAGE Growing up as a preacher’s kid, Tonya Boyd-Cannon had no choice but to sing, and it was clear to her family she had a gift, even at an early age.

Her singing “Have Hope, Faith and Charity,” while swinging when she was 2 years old was what let her father know things were going to be OK after he lost his job. Ever since it’s been the throughline in her life, and she credits it for getting her through battles with depression and anxiety.

“All I’ve known is music,” she says. “Music has been such a vibrant medication for me. It’s been medicinal on so many levels.

It’s been transforming on so many levels, and it’s actually saved my life.”

When Boyd-Cannon is not touring under her own name or with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, she’s teaching kids around the city how to sing at Bricolage Academy and at free vocal workshops through the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. She works with children as young as 3, and says she’s found that no matter how young a kid is, you know when they have something special.

“My 4-year-old student, she actually started when she was 3, a year ago,” Boyd-Cannon says.

“Out of all of my students, she’s in my top five as one of the most professional young artists that I’ve worked with in all of my over 20 years of teaching.”

Boyd-Cannon also worked at Orleans Parish Prison in the early 2000s, eventually becoming a sheriff’s deputy. There she helped start a women’s ensemble of the choir. Hearing the men and women sing together was “angelic,” she says, because they had a love of music that didn’t stop once they got out of jail.

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Prior to her Jazz Fest set, Big Freedia will join Tarriona “Tank” Ball and DJ Soul Sister in a conversation panel at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 2, at the Toulouse Theatre.

In March, Big Freedia recorded a short video highlighting New Orleans and the city’s influence on her as an artist as part of Jagermeister’s “Local Snapshot” campaign.

The series asks artists about their local communities and cultures and raises money for a charity in that city.

“I’m always on the forefront of just making people aware of the city and the music I do,” she says.

“I’m always putting it out there of how New Orleans is such a great place and there’s no place like us in the world.”

There’s a lot going on in Big Freedia’s world right now: After Jazz Fest, she plays the Republic on May 7 and then has tour dates with Trombone Shorty, Tank and the Bangas and other New Orleans artists throughout the summer. She has a new album done and coming this year and has already started working on the next one, she says. There’s also a kids’ project, a gospel album and more collaborations. And if that wasn’t enough, Essence reported last month Big Freedia is working on a boutique hotel in the Frenchmen Street area.

“So you will see a lot of me coming in the near future,” she says.

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The son of the late blues musician Tabby Thomas, King grew up immersed in the blues. When King was a teenager, in 1979, his father opened Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall, a club where King played nightly for 15 years.

“Our family business was the blues,” he says.

King remembers those days at the club, where people would dance the night away. “They

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would dance until they were just sweaty and just worn out,” he says. “People danced for like four hours straight in that place to the wee hours of the morning. Just the smiles on everyone’s faces and how the music just kind of brought people together and created a happy atmosphere, that’s the most indelible impression that I carry with me.”

Since those days, King has had a successful blues career and made a foray into acting. In the early 2000s, he played blues guitarists in both “Ray” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” He also sang Skip James’ “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” on the latter film’s soundtrack, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002.

Last summer, King released his first book “The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture,” and he plans to write another. In his first book, King makes the case that blues was born in south Louisiana rather than northern Mississippi, citing musicians like Buddy Bolden, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton.

“There’s no truth to the fact that blues came from work songs or slave songs,” King asserts. “Blues is a high art music that came out in New Orleans ... They called it ‘West End Blues,’ ‘Basin Street Blues,’ the ‘Jelly Roll Blues.’ All the New Orleans musicians called their music the blues.”

‘I want Louisiana to celebrate the fact that this music comes from us,” he adds.

King has played Jazz Fest since the ’70s, when he’d play as a kid alongside his father. This time around, though, he’s coming with a bigger band than usual — including horn players and background singers. He’ll also be debuting songs from his next album, which he’s currently wrapping up, that will tackle issues surrounding climate change.

“I’m talking about the plastic in our oceans,” he says. “I’m talking about how we need to take care of this planet if we want to continue to live on it.”

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whether they were in their church choir, whether they were part of doing background for somebody, but they were still doing music.”

Boyd-Cannon made her Jazz Fest debut on the Congo Square Stage in the late ’90s, singing background vocals for a variety of artists over the years. Her set this year will feature a special guest, and she’s excited her mother and aunts will be there, since it’ll be Mother’s Day. She’ll also perform her single “Feel Good,” which came out in January. It’s a song that means a lot to her because she wrote it in January 2020 after the death of her friend’s husband, Bobby Jefferson, also known as DJ Smoove.

When Boyd-Cannon met Jefferson, she asked him to play something that made her feel good. It became a running joke between the two, and Jefferson would play her music while DJing.

“This song is very powerful,” she says. “One of those songs that make you feel like you’re sitting in the living room, you’re with your family, you’re with your friends, and I’m excited to share that with the audience and just with the ancestors to celebrate at Congo Square for Jazz Fest.”

Boyd-Cannon is aiming to release her next full-length album, “Soul of a Preacher’s Kid,” in 2023. Through it, she’s hoping to channel the same energy she’s planning for her Jazz Fest set.

“This album is going to be something that allows, hopefully, people to be released and freed from a lot of bondage and things that have been holding them back and to be revived, to start anew,” she says.

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anthem by female rock group The Shaggs, but it also gives credit where credit is due: Her mastery of the loop pedal, controlled by her right foot, makes it seem like there’s another artist on stage with her, “like it has a mind of its own,” she says with a laugh.

The Belgian-born Gillet, who sings in English and French, creates layers of sound with her looping technique, and the results are often ethereal and otherworldly.

“There is an element of spirituality in the repetition,” she says. “I have basslines, rhythms, percussive elements, harmony, melody and atmosphere. It’s all sounds the cello makes.”

In New Orleans, Gillet is known for solo shows, improvisational music performances, and leading groups such as her Wazozo band.

For this Jazz Fest show, she will be joined by drummer and longtime collaborator Doug Garrison.

Gillet says she is looking forward to introducing audiences to a few new tracks that reflect upon the past couple of years. “Mes Amis,” is inspired by a 13th-century French poem by Rutebeuf called “Que Sont Mes Amis Devenus,” which translates to “What has become of my friends?”

During the early days of the COVID-19 shutdowns, Gillet contemplated and read about previous pandemics including the Black Plague. Though the track has some dark undertones, she says making it with an upbeat melody helped her process being separated from people.

“It’s about losing your friends to the Black Plague,” she says.

“But it’s like a joyful jam ... It’s appropriate to the existence we are living in and trying to process what’s happening.”

But she hasn’t determined a final set list.

“I’m an improviser at heart,” she says. — SARAH RAVITS

Nicholas Payton SUNDAY, MAY 8 4:05 P.M.-5:15 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT Nicholas Payton grew up in New Orleans literally under the nose of some of the city’s — and the world’s — greatest musicians. As a kid, he would sit under his parents’ grand piano, dreamily listening to local musical giants play.

“As early as 2 years old, I remember looking at guys like Ellis Marsalis at the crib. Professor Longhair, he once came by the crib and I remember sitting under the piano while he was playing. I was being immersed,” Payton

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By the age of 9, Payton was sitting in with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band on trumpet, next to his father, bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton. And his mother Maria Payton was an opera singer and classical pianist.

In the early ’90s, he toured with Elvin Jones and Marcus Roberts.

In 1997, he won a Grammy for an instrumental solo from an album he made with Doc Cheatham.

Payton can punch out syncopated chords on the keyboard with one hand while softly rattling the valves of his trumpet — played with perfect tone — with the other. Your eyes and ears might be able to witness that kind of split-brain skill, but wrapping your head around it is another thing altogether.

Payton is a champion of Black American Music — fighting back against the word “jazz,” the way the term has diminished Black originators and the constraints of genre labels. He liberally peppers his social media with #BAM. Payton elevates what he calls “the genius of Black creativity” over any genre label in his funky track “Jazz is a Four Letter Word.” The song mixes Payton’s own academic ruminations on Black excellence in a tune and tone not too far off of Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”

Forty-eight years old is a little too ‘spring chicken’ to call Payton a living legend — even though he started earlier than most. So let’s just say you’ll be glad to have seen one of the greats in his prime.

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JACK AND PHIL RIZZUTO OPENED A PIZZA JOINT on the West Bank, but what

their customers clamored for was beef.

They opened Rizzuto’s Pizzeria on a busy stretch of Belle Chasse Highway near Terry Parkway last spring. Although Hurricane Ida was the catalyst for the shift from pizza to Rizzuto’s Ristorante & Chop House in Gretna, the real reason for the change was customer demand.

The family, whose octogenarian patriarch got into the bar business when he was 16, sold Amici Ristorante & Bar on Magazine Street and Creole Carre on Bourbon Street to take over the Tony Angello’s space in Lakeview. “We had never had a white tablecloth kind of place, so when Tony decided to retire, we figured let’s give it a try,” Jack Rizzuto says. “It’s been great from the start.”

The original Rizzuto’s Ristorante & Chop House will celebrate its fifth anniversary on June 30. It actually managed to thrive during the pandemic thanks to takeout orders, ample indoor space for socially distanced seating and an added large patio for outdoor dining.

When Ida hit, the Lakeview restaurant took a foot and a half of water and most of the staff was relocated to the West Bank restaurant while repairs were made. Working under executive chef Jason Caronna, the kitchen started running specials such as a steak night and adding a crab cake, made from just lump crabmeat and seasonings.

“We’d sell 100 steaks,” Jack Rizzuto says. “People kept asking for their favorite menu items from the other store.” Those dishes included eggplant Valentina, a stack of breaded eggplant that’s a throwback to Tony Angello’s popular eggplant Tina. The Lakeview restaurant also offers a popular bruciuluni, a stuffed sirloin that’s based on the Rizzutos’ Sicilian grandmother’s recipe.

When it was time to move the staff back to Lakeview, customers were vocal about wanting a steakhouse of their own. “The problem was, we didn’t have enough staff,” Phil Rizzuto says.

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It took some time and training, but the newly conceived Gretna Rizzuto’s Ristorante & Chop House opened in March.

Diners still can’t get the bruciuluni at the 60-seater. “The kitchen is too small for a couple of the dishes,” says Jack Rizzuto, but most of the Lakeview menu is available in Gretna.

Everything — from the bread and pasta to the pastries to their grandmother’s red sauce recipe — is made in-house. Italian specialties are half the reason to visit Rizzuto’s. Dishes include veal or chicken parmesan and piccata and rigatoni wagyu Bolognese made with San Marzano tomatoes. Shrimp fra diavolo features a zippy tomato cream sauce filled with local shrimp.

Steaks sizzling with butter are the other reason to reserve a spot in Gretna. Beef lovers will swoon over the spinalis cut, offered in 10-ounce ($50) and 14-ounce ($68) portions.

The prized marbled cap of the rib-eye, also called a deckle steak, delivers intense beefy flavor with a tender bite. Cutting the beef that way leaves the Delmonico behind, and that piece is used in everything from the surf and turf — topped with a jumbo lump crab cake — to

Brothers Jack and Phil Rizzuto at their Gretna restaurant. a premium house-ground burger patty, available in Lakeview. Filet mignon and New York strips round out the options.

To start a meal, the meatball served with ricotta, marinara and fresh basil is big enough to share, although diners might not want to give up half. There’s a bracing toss of red and golden beets, Marcona almonds and feta in a Steen’s sugarcane vinaigrette and a garlicky Caesar that pays homage to the classic salad.

Giuseppe Forsetta, a newly hired chef from Catania in Sicily, will bring more Sicilian soul to the table.

The dining room is spiffed up, with booths swapped out for tables and a color scheme of midnight blue and cream. The Rizzutos plan to add lunch service.

“For us, the food was the easy part,” Jack Rizzuto says. “We knew we wanted to serve the kind of food we ate growing up. We needed somebody who could make it pretty, and Jason (Caronna) is good at that.

He’s also Italian.”

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a staggering blow to festival food vendor Patton’s Caterers. And yet, when things seemed most dark, it was the spirit of Jazz Fest that provided some light.

Patton’s produces the combo platter of crawfish beignets, oyster patties and crawfish sacks at Jazz Fest. In April 2020, in the era of socially distant “Festing in Place,” the company started a drive-thru operation at its Slidell home base to sell the plates again. The response exceeded expectations, with cars lining the street.

“We thought this was the end of us, and we thought no one would come out, but we were shocked by how people responded. It was so heartwarming and mind-blowing,”

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Patton’s combo plate includes a crawfish sack, oyster patty and crawfish beignets. says Erin Merrick, part of the third generation of the Patton family now running the business.

It was the boost, both in finances and morale, that the family needed as it coped with its full party and event calendar in sudden disarray. Now, the catering company is busy once again, and in full festival prep mode.

“Coming back to Jazz Fest feels like we’re coming home,” Merrick says.

Patton’s example is one case of the scrambling, pivoting and collaboration that marked the path of Jazz Fest food vendors through the pandemic. Most have made it, and while this year’s Jazz Fest brings more changes than usual, people largely can recognize the Jazz Fest food lineup.

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bisque and the merguez sausage po-boy at Jazz Fest’s Food Area 2. Jamila and Moncef Sbaa have been serving the French-accented North African flavors of their native Tunisia in their snug Uptown cafe for 30 years. It defines mom and pop, and that means there was little to fall back on during the crisis.

“It’s been one day at a time. You feel like an athlete who accomplishes something and wonders how he did it,” Moncef Sbaa says. “Some nights I’m the waiter, the busboy, the dishwasher, and you do it.”

Even in takeout-only mode, regulars met them halfway. A nearby business, Langenstein’s grocery, even started stocking that bisque in its deli to help them out.

“We keep working, for us but for the city too,” Sbaa says. “That’s just like the fest. The city needs its restaurants and needs its festivals.”

The added burden of Hurricane Ida has guided changes this year for the United Houma Nation.

Many from this indigenous tribe of southeast Louisiana are still coping with damage across their communities from the powerful hurricane.

The kitchen facilities normally used for prep work before Jazz Fest are unavailable. That building, in the bayou town of Dulac, has been pressed into service as a church, while repairs to the community’s usual church progress.

“At first we didn’t think we could even come out this year,” says tribal administrator Lanor Curole. “But the Jazz Fest people said, ‘Let’s not talk about what you can’t do. Let’s talk about what you can do.’”

The result sees the United Houma Nation serving only foods they can prep on site at their stand in the Louisiana Folklife Village at Jazz Fest. Missing this year is the corn maque choux and also Indian tacos. But they’ll have an important heritage dish, fry bread — topped with honey or powdered sugar — and a new version, sweet potato fry bread bites, available on their own or wrapped around strawberries.

While the overall feeling is one of relief and return for food vendors, they are still managing an industry-wide reality of higher prices, unpredictable supply chains, and shortages, even for the basics of rental trucks to get their food and supplies to the festival.

Many food vendors collaborated on pop-ups and special events.

Big River Foods, the maker of festival food staple crawfish Monica, was right in the thick of those events with Cottage Catering, maker of crawfish strudel and white chocolate bread pudding.

The two now are coordinating

cold storage and refrigerated truck space to pull off their respective Jazz Fest efforts.

“Those of us who have been there a long time know what each other needs, so we’re helping out,” says Pierre “Pete” Hilzim, who runs Big River Foods with his wife, crawfish Monica namesake Monica Davidson.

He says vendors can’t necessarily rely on running their Jazz Fest operations the same way as before, because of problems in logistics and sourcing. But, he says, the overriding feel is excitement, and anticipation for feeding what many are projecting to be big returning festival crowds. — IAN McNULTY / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

Gulotta to open TANA

WITH HIS SICILIAN HERITAGE AND FINE DINING CHOPS, Michael Gulotta has

often been asked if he’ll ever open an Italian restaurant. Finally, his answer is yes.

The New Orleans-based chef is developing a new Italian restaurant in Old Metairie called TANA. TANA is slated to open early in 2023 at 2929 Metairie Road. It will be part of a new commercial development taking shape along the rapidly changing business strip here.

Gulotta is a New Orleans native who made his name as executive chef at Restaurant August. He left to open his Vietnamese-inspired restaurant, MoPho in Mid-City, and later opened the more upscale fusion restaurant Maypop in the CBD, as well as an outpost of MoPho at the airport.

He runs those today with longtime friend and business partner Jeff Bybee. For TANA, they’ve partnered with Gabe Corchiani, a businessman who created Fat Boy’s Pizza, and Christopher Keene, an owner of the Rivershack in Gretna.

TANA is named for the chef’s grandmother, Gaetana, and it may be familiar to some from an earlier venture. For two years, Gulotta ran TANA as the tavern kitchen at Treo, a cocktail lounge on Tulane Avenue, which has since closed.

The menu is still under development, but the guiding principles are traditional Italian dishes, coastal flavors using Gulf seafood and some of the particulars from the chef’s own family.

“It’s taking old things and making them new, traditional flavor that we brighten and refresh a bit,” Gulotta says. — IAN McNULTY / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

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Why did you go into cooking?

BRANDON ROBINSON: I was born and raised in New Orleans.

I got into cooking because my grandpa was a chef back in the day.

I enjoy cooking and feeding people and seeing their reaction. When people eat something good, I enjoy the conversation over food, the connection people have over food.

That was my reason for getting into cooking. I like the artistic side of cooking. I have dishes you can’t get anywhere else in New Orleans.

I started out at McDonald’s in high school. My first job getting into cooking was being a butcher’s assistant at Whole Foods, so I got experience cutting meat and handling different types of proteins and talking with people about what they like to do with lamb or whatever they’re cooking. Then I got into the prepared foods.

I graduated Delgado’s culinary program in 2014. I was at (Brazilian steakhouse) Fogo de Chao for five years. From there I went to Zea’s and I worked at Blue Oak BBQ.

How did you get interested in Caribbean food?

R: I have family descendants from St. Croix. I go out there every year.

I take the kids and take a trip to take a load off. There’s a cool place in St. Croix called Singh’s. It’s island food, with jerk chicken, curried goat, rice and peas, fried dumplings, fried plantains. I go there every time I go to the islands. And every time I go to the islands, my aunt gives me a cookbook.

St. Croix isn’t known for a specific dish. You can get Cuban food there. You can get Trinidad and

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Jamaican cuisine. They are known for making Cruzan rum; there’s a distillery on the island.

At Hype Eatz, I do doubles, which is a dish from Trinidad. It’s a type of turmeric bread that I make, and I stuff it with curried chickpeas and serve it with cucumber chutney on top.

I have a dish that I do with oxtails.

I make a bun from scratch — with flour, milk yeast. I roll the bun out and stuff it with cheese. I make an oxtail stew and then pull the oxtail off the bone and stuff it in the bun and bake it. I call that a pull-apart.

You can’t find that anywhere else in the city.

I have a jerk fried chicken barbecue sandwich that I sell a lot of.

I do specials now and then like curried goat and jerk chicken. I do a redfish curry that’s island style with coconut milk, bell pepper, garlic, thyme, pimento seeds, cloves. It’s island style, because you wouldn’t normally make a curry with turmeric or pimento seeds or cloves.

How is it going with Hype Eatz?

R: I have been doing Hype Eatz for three years now. I just opened the food stall, but

before that I was doing private events. I did an event at Xavier (University) where I was a vendor, and catering and pop-ups and stuff like that. The feedback was good, and that gave me more confidence to open up my own stall.

I do Caribbean and Southern food. I have a baked macaroni and fried chicken plate. I have white beans and catfish. One of my dishes is called a Southern taco. I used sweet potato to make tortillas and I fill them with fried chicken and baked macaroni.

I still do catering. A couple asked me to do tacos for Cinco de Mayo.

I would like to venture off into Asian and do bao buns. I make enchiladas, tacos, stuffed gorditos, burritos. I have an outside pizza oven at my house, and I make pizzas from scratch. I make home-made egg noodles.

My main goal for Hype Eatz is to eventually own my own full-service restaurant. I would like to have a full staff and full kitchen.

That’d be a dream come true for me and my grandfather.

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O U T T O E AT C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S A T W W W. B E S T O F N E W O R L E A N S . C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans and all accept credit cards. Updates: Email willc@gambitweekly.com or call (504) 483-3106.

7th Ward

Nonno’s Cajun Cuisine and Pastries — 2025 N. Claiborne Ave., (504) 3541364; nonnoscajuncuisineandpastries. com — The menu includes home-style Cajun and Creole dishes with some vegan options. Shrimp is sauteed with onion and bell pepper, topped with cheese and served with two eggs and toast. Reservations accepted. Delivery available. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$

CBD

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; juansflyingburrito. com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. Outdoor dining available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$

CARROLLTON

Mid City Pizza — 6307 S. Miro St., (504) 509-6224; midcitypizza.com — See MidCity section for restaurant description.

Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab.

Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. $$ Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola.com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with cheese, and a lobster tail or fried catfish fillet are optional additions. The menu also includes wings, quesadillas, burgers, sandwiches, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$

CITYWIDE

Breaux Mart — Citywide; breauxmart. com — The deli counter’s changing specials include dishes such as baked catfish and red beans and rice. Lunch and dinner daily. $

FRENCH QUARTER

Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu features Gulf seafood in traditional and contemporary Creole dishes, po-boys and more. Char-grilled oysters are topped with Parmesan, herbs and butter. Reservations recommended.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE

The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; theospizza.com — There is

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11-$20 $$$ — $20-up

a wide variety of specialty pies and toppings to build your own pizza. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW

The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — The menu includes sandwiches, fried seafood platters, boiled seafood and more. Basin barbecue shrimp and grits features eight jumbo shrimp over creamy cheese grits and a cheese biscuit. Outdoor seating available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001; lakeviewbrew.com — This casual cafe offers coffee, pastries, desserts, sandwiches and salads. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with Monterey Jack and Parmesan.

Takeout and delivery available.

Breakfast and lunch daily. $

METAIRIE

Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; andreasrestaurant.com — Chef Andrea Apuzzo’s speckled trout royale is topped with crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in cream sauce. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; gumbostop.com — The Seafood Platter comes with fried catfish, shrimp, oysters and crab balls and is accompanied by fries and choice of side. There are several types of gumbo on the menu. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. Takeout available. Lunch Sun.Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; martinwine. com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. No reservations.

Lunch daily. $$ Nephew’s Ristorante — 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 533-9998; nephewsristorante.com — Chef Frank Catalanotto is the namesake “nephew” who ran the kitchen at his late uncle Tony Angello’s restaurant. The CreoleItalian menu features dishes like veal, eggplant or chicken parmigiana, and Mama’s Eggplant with red gravy and Romano cheese. Reservations required. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie,

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Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Frey Smoked Meat Co. — 4141 Bienville St., Suite 110, (504) 488-7427; freysmokedmeat.com — The barbecue restaurant serves pulled pork, St. Louis ribs, brisket, sausages and more. Pork belly poppers are fried cubes of pork belly tossed in pepper jelly glaze. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; juansflyingburrito.com — See Uptown section for restaurant description.

Outdoor dining available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread.

The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic and scallions. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; midcitypizza.com — The neighborhood pizza joint serves New York-style pies, plus calzones, sandwiches and salads. Signature shrimp remoulade pizza includes spinach, red onion, garlic, basil and green onion on an garlic-olive oil brushed curst. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes New Orleans favorites such as red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as grilled or fried seafood plates, po-boys, raw or char-grilled oysters, pasta, salads and more. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

NORTHSHORE

The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; thebluecrabnola.com — See Lakeview section for restaurant description. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 2349420; theospizza.com — See Harahan/ Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

UPTOWN

Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; joeyksrestaurant.com — The menu includes fried seafood

platters, salads, sandwiches and red beans and rice. Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat and served with vegetables and potatoes. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes grilled steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar-jack cheese, black beans, yellow rice, salsa la fonda, guacamole and sour cream. The menu also has tacos, quesadillas, nachos and more. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 894-7444; martinwine. com — The deli at the wine and spirit shop serves sandwiches, salads and more. The Sena salad includes pulled roasted chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, pecans and field greens tossed with Tobasco pepperjelly vinaigrette. No reservations.

Lunch daily. $$ Red Gravy — 4206 Magazine St., (504) 561-8844; redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with chocolate. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. Takeout available. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; theospizza.com — See Harahan/ Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco.com — The Peruvian menu includes a version of the traditional dish lomo saltado, featuring beef tenderloin tips sauteed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, soy sauce and pisco, and served with fried potatoes and rice. Dine-in, outdoor seating and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant.com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes. Fried oysters and skewered bacon are served with meuniere sauce and toasted French bread. Reservations required. Dinner Thu.-Sun. $$$ The Mill — 1051 Annunciation St., (504) 582-9544; themillnola.com — Short ribs are braised with red wine and served with risotto. Reservations accepted. Dinner Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. $$

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$

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TUESDAY 3

BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Quartet, 7 pm BLUE NILE — Brass-A-Holics, 10 pm CAPULET — "The Tuesday Between" with Ricardo Pascal, Beck Burger, Robin Sherman, Aaron Walker-Loud, Arie Pytel, 6:30 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Obliquestra with Special Guests, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — 22nd Anniversary Party and crawfish boil feat.

Cha Wa, Happy Talk Band, 3 pm; 007, 8 pm; Soul Brass Band, 11 pm DOS JEFES — Tom Hook, Wendell Brunious, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — Lynn Drury with Papa Mali, 9 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Asheson, 8 pm SATURN BAR — Little Freddie King, 9 pm TIPITINA'S — Dragon Smoke feat. Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Eric Lindell & Robert Mercurio, 9 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Will Bernard, Johnny Vidacovich, Kevin Scott, 2 pm; Dave Jordan and The NIA, 7 pm; 79ers Gang and Zydefunk, 11 pm

WEDNESDAY 4

BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 7 pm BLUE NILE — Game of Bones, 11 pm BOURREE — Valerie Sassyfras, 5 pm CAFE NEGRIL — Colin Davis and Night People, 10:30 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Helen Gillet with Michael Zerang, Rob Cambre, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Tin Men, 6 pm; The Iguanas, 6 pm; Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, 9 pm DEUTSCHES HAUS — John Rankin, 7 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard "Piano" Scott, 12:30 pm; Bourbon Street All Star Trio, 7 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm GASA GASA — Wavering with Parsley and Ciel, 9 pm HOTEL MONTELEONE — James Martin Band, 8 pm LAFAYETTE SQUARE PARK — Shamarr Allen and Margie Perez, 5 pm MADAME VIC'S — Dr. Redwine's Grape Stompers, 8 pm MIDNIGHT REVIVAL — Caleb Tokarska Band, 8 pm MRB BAR & KITCHEN — Lynn Drury, 7 pm ONE EYED JACKS — Yussef Dayes, 10 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — LPO Season Finale, 7:30 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Blues Harmonica Showcase, 8 pm

SATURN BAR — Motel Radio, Julie Odell, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Piano Summit feat. Marcia Ball, Joe Krown, Tom McDermott, 8 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Piano Summit feat. Marcia Ball, Joe Krown, Tom McDermott, 10 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Funkin' It Up with Big Sam, 7:30 pm THE SANDBAR — Emmet Cohen, 7 pm TIPITINA'S — The Daze Between Band, 10 pm WETLANDS SAKE — Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, 6:30 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — A Taste of Dr. John's "Gumbo" feat.

Will Bernard, Bill Malchow, 11 pm

THURSDAY 5

BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Quartet, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Nigel Hall feat. Butcher Brown, 10:30 pm BLUE NILE — Break Science Live Band, 11:59 pm BOURBON SQUARE JAZZ BAR — Alicia Renee "Blue Eyes", 7:30 pm BROTHERS THREE LOUNGE — Cast Iron Cactus, 9 pm BUFFA'S — Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand, 8 & pm CAFE ISTANBUL — Wil Blades & Friends Feat. Members Of The Headhunters, 11:45 pm CAFE NEGRIL — Sierra Green and the Soul Machine, 10 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Sam Price & The True Believers, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 5 pm “Once a Dozen" Tribute to Dirty Dozen Brass Band feat. Big Sam, Efrem "ET" Towns, Terence Higgins, Jamie McLean, Julius "Jap" McKee, Revert "PNut" Andrews and Roger Lewis , 10 pm; Roosevelt Collier’s “Jimi meets Funk” tribute to Jimi Hendrix feat.

Tony Hall, Terence Higgins with Eric McFadden, Jonathan Boogie Long, Marcus Machado and more, 1 am DOS JEFES — Mark Coleman Trio, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard "Piano" Scott, 12:30 pm; Colin Myers Trio, 2:30 pm; John Saavadra Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm GASA GASA — Vandoliers with Sam Morrow, 9 pm HOUSE OF BLUES — Take Me to The River Allstars, 8 pm KERMIT'S TREMÉ MOTHER-IN-LAW LOUNGE — Jaz Sawyer’s Crescent City Trio , 7 pm LE BON TEMPS ROULE — Soul Rebels, 10 pm MADAME VIC'S — Carols Childe Band, 8 pm MARDI GRAS WORLD — The Revivalists with special guest Preservation Hall Band, 9:30 pm MIDNIGHT REVIVAL — Midas, 9 pm

F I L E P H O T O / T H E T I M E S - P I C AY U N E

MUSIC BOX VILLAGE — Mars Williams "Devil's Whistle" with Nels Cline, 7 pm OLD POINT BAR — Valerie Sassyfras, 8 pm ONE EYED JACKS — Yussef Dayes, 2 am PEACOCK ROOM, HOTEL FONTENOT — Da Lovebirds, 9 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — Ron & Tina's Acoustic Jam, 7 pm REPUBLIC NOLA — Dead Feat, 9 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie, 8 pm SATURN BAR — Marina Orchestra, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Herlin Riley & Friends feat. Emmet Cohen, 9 pm; Herlin Riley & Friends feat. Emmet Cohen, 11 pm THE BROADSIDE — Cimafunk with the Iguanas, 8 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Brass-AHolics, 7:30 pm THE TOULOUSE THEATRE — Stanton Moore & Friends feat. Skerik, Eric Benny Bloom, James Singleton, Will Bernard, Robert Walter, David Torkanowsky, 8:30 pm THREE KEYS (ACE HOTEL) — Jon Cleary + Pedro Segundo, 8 pm TIPITINA'S — Tank & The Bangas, 9 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Dash Rip Rock, 7 pm; Los Po-Boy-Citos & Lost Bayou Ramblers, 9 pm

FRIDAY 6

BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swinger, 10:30 pm; Soul Brass Band, 11 pm BUFFA'S — Pfister Sisters, 8 & 10 pm CAFE ISTANBUL — Axial Tilt, 10 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Debuache A Fundraiser for the people of Ukraine, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, 5 pm; Soul Rebels, 10 pm; Mike Dillon & Punkadelic feat. Brian Haas, Nikki Glaspie, guests, 1 am DOS JEFES — Afrodisiacs Jazz, 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Sam Friend Trio, 2:30 pm; Lee Floyd and Thunderbolt Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm

The Honey Island Swamp Band plays Broadside Friday, May 6.

GASA GASA — Fooshee's Forecast with Awen Family Band, Slow Motion Cowboys, 9 pm JOY THEATER — Anders Osborne Birthday Bash, 9 pm MADAME VIC'S — Crescent City Gentlemen, 9 pm MANDEVILLE TRAILHEAD — Gregg Martinez, 6:30 pm MIDNIGHT REVIVAL — Green Gasoline, 9 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — Preservation Hall 60th Anniversary Celebration, 9 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — Preservation Hall: 60th Anniversary Concert, 7 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — The Wolfe Johns Blues Band, 9 pm REPUBLIC NOLA — Earth Wind & Power, 10 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Cowboy Mouth plus LVVRS, 8 pm SANTOS — Bob Log III, 9 pm SATURN BAR — Pope, Pardoner, Lawn, 9 pm SIDNEY'S SALOON — Eric Johanson, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Germaine Bazzle with the Larry Sieberth Trio feat. Derek Douget, 9 & 11 pm ST. ALPHONSUS ART AND CULTURAL CENTER — Music at the Museum: Bach, Copland, & Clyne, 6 pm THE BROADSIDE — Honey Island Swamp Band, 9 pm THE SPOTTED CAT MUSIC CLUB — James Martin Band, 10 pm THE TOULOUSE THEATRE — Neal Francis + The Suffers, 9 pm TIPITINA'S — The Word, 9 pm; Andy Frasco and The U.N., 2 am ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Playing for Change, 8 pm

SATURDAY 7

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BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — Brass Flavor, 7 pm; Stooges Brass Band, 11 pm BOURREE — Cast Iron Cactus, 6 pm BROTHERS THREE LOUNGE — Concrete Confetti, 8 pm BUFFA'S — Cosmic Fishheads Camile Baudoin, Reggie Scanlan and Mikey B3 Burkart, 8 & 10 pm CAFE ISTANBUL — Axial Tilt, 10 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Baby Grand with Midriff, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Tuba Skinny, 6 pm; New Orleans Suspects, 10 pm; Toubab Krewe, 2 am DOS JEFES — Sunpie & The Louisiana Sunspots, 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Lee Floyd and Thunderbolt Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm GASA GASA — Them Ol' Ghosts with Anne Elise Hastings, 9 pm GEORGE AND JOYCE WEIN JAZZ & HERITAGE CENTER — Nicholas Payton, 8 pm JOY THEATER — The Disco Biscuits, 11 pm MADAME VIC'S — Matt Andrews and the Sheepshead Serenaders, 8 pm MIDNIGHT REVIVAL — Greenhouse Lounge, 8 pm NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MARKET — Nnenna Freelon, Adonis Rose and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, 9 pm ONE EYED JACKS — Erick Lindell's Golden Twilight Orchestra, 9 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — JJ Grey & Mofro, 8 pm REPUBLIC NOLA — Big Freedia, 8 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, 8 pm SANTOS — Allan Rayman, 10 pm SATURN BAR — Daiquiri Queens, Jackson and the Janks, 10 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Davell Crawford, 9 & 11 pm THE ALLWAYS LOUNGE & CABARET — The New Orleans High Society Hour, 12 am THE BOMBAY CLUB — Anais St. John, 8 pm THE HIDEAWAY DEN & ARCADE — The Hurricane Hunters, 8 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — The Nayo Jones Experience, 7:30 pm THE SAENGER THEATRE — The Last Waltz, 9 pm THE TOULOUSE THEATRE — Eric Krasno + Son Little, 9 pm THREE KEYS (ACE HOTEL) — ÌFÉ, 10 pm TIPITINA'S — Galactic feat. Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph + New Breed Brass Band, 9 pm; The M&Ms feat.

John Medeski, Papa Mali, Stanton Moore, Robert Mercurio, 2 am ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Erica Falls & Waterseed with Guests Glen David Andrews & Omari Neville, 7 pm

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BLUE NILE — Mia Borders, 10:30 pm BOURREE — Valerie Sassyfras, 3 pm BUFFA'S — Some Like It Hot, 11 am & 1 pm; Lynn Drury, 8 & 10 pm CAFE ISTANBUL — AND THEN CAME HUMANS, 11:30 pm

CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Jeremy Joyce, The J. Goods Experience, 8 pm CARROLLTON STATION — Guitar Masters with Cranston Clements, John Rankin and Jimmy Robinson, Woodenhead, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Tremé Brass Band, 7 pm; Stanton Moore feat. Robert Walter & Will Bernard, 10 pm; John Medeski’s Mad Skillet, 2 am DOS JEFES — Joe Krown, Jason Ricci, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Sam Friend Trio, 12:30 pm; Joe Kennedy Trio, 2:30 pm; Marla Dixon Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — Lion Heights with FireBrain, 9 pm JOY THEATER — The Disco Biscuits, 9 pm KERMIT'S TREMÉ MOTHER-IN-LAW LOUNGE — Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, 10 pm MADAME VIC'S — Dr. Sick with Dave Hammer, Matt Booth, 7 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — Tank & Bill, 4 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Marc Broussard and Sonny Landreth, 8 pm SATURN BAR — Helen Gillet & Friends, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Delfeayo Marsalis Sextet, 9 & 11 pm THE BROADSIDE — Gabrielle Cavassa, Sam Doores, Andrew Huhon, 8 am; Cha Wa and the Iceman Special, 8 pm THE TOULOUSE THEATRE — Fleetmac Wood, 1 am THREE KEYS (ACE HOTEL) — HaSizzle & The Brass-A-Holics, 8 pm TIPITINA'S — Dumpstaphunk, 9 pm; Doom Flamingo, 2 am ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Billy Iuso, 7 pm

MONDAY 9 BLUE NILE — The Nth Power, 10 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — The Nth Power, 10 pm BUFFA'S — Leslie Cooper & Harry Mayronne with Doyle Cooper and JD Haenni, 7 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Secret Six Jazz Band, 6 pm; New Orleans Nightcrawlers Brass Band, 10 pm; FequiNOT feat. Donald Harrison Jr., Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, Rob Mercurio, Will Bernard, 1 am DOS JEFES — John Fohl, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Twisty River Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — Zahria Sims Collective, 9 pm TIPITINA'S — "Give The Drummer Some" benefit for "Mean" Willie Green feat. New Orleans Suspects and Klezmer Allstars plus special set with NOLA drummers, 7:30 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Will Bernard, Sasha Masakowski, 2 pm

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had a lengthy and impressive career leading Latin jazz acts.

Saxophone maestro — and NEA Jazz Master — Donald Harrison Jr. rounds out the band. Doors open at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, May 5, and the show kicks off at 1 a.m. Tickets are $25 at purplepass.com/istanbulnightfest and $30 at the door.

Break Science

KEYBOARDIST AND PRODUCER BORAHM LEE AND LETTUCE DRUMMER ADAM DEITCH’S BREAK SCIENCE is

one of the titans of electronic music, with deep roots in everything from hip-hop and drum and bass to funk and soul. The duo performs this week as part of the Backbeat Foundation’s 15th Backbeat Jazz Fest series, which is showcasing acts at Blue Nile during Jazz Fest. The late show is at 1:30 a.m. — the morning of Friday, May 6. Tickets are $25 at bluenilelive.com.

Nancy Whang

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM KEYBOARDIST AND SINGER NANCY WHANG head-

lines the final night of the Rabbit Hole’s Jazzy Rabbit series.

Whang’s DJ sets lean into a house, synth-pop sound with more than a bit of a disco feel.

She’s joined by two New Orleans DJs: house DJ Nile Ashton and Tristan Dufrane, whose sets run the gamut from disco, breaks, deep house and beyond. The show kicks off at 11 p.m. Friday, May 6, and runs through 5 a.m.

Tickets are $30 now before going to $35 closer to the show.

Check rabbitholenola.com for more information.

The Last Waltz New Orleans

IN 2016, A CROWD OF MUSICIANS PAID TRIBUTE TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY of “The Last Waltz” — The

Band’s famous 1976 farewell concert, which was shot on film

by Martin Scorsese — with a two-night stand at the Saenger Theatre during Jazz Fest.

Another iteration of the tribute show features a stacked lineup, including Warren Haynes, Grace Potter, Jamey Johnson, George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Don Was, Dave Malone, John Medeski, Terence Higgins, Bob Margolin and Mark Mullins & Levee Horns. The show starts at 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at the Saenger. Tickets start at $49.50 at saengernola.com.

‘Give the Drummer Some’

“MEAN” WILLIE GREEN HELD DOWN THE GROOVE FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS as the Neville Brothers’

drummer. Now retired, he’s dealing with arthritis and other issues, and the local music community is looking to give back to this legend. The New Orleans Suspects, in which Green played for a decade, are headlining along with the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars. The show also will feature a set with “rotating drummers” from New Orleans bands. Plus, there’s crawfish.

Show is at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 9, at Tipitina’s. Tickets are $23 at tipitinas.com.

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe: A Diesel Insane

THE JAZZ FUNK OF KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE BECAME A FAMILIAR SOUND in New Orleans at Jazz

Fest time during the jam band craze. Denson also dips into rock, and he has toured with the Rolling Stones since 2015 — and he and Anders Osborne once collaborated to perform the Stones’ “Sticky Fingers” album. On this tour, the saxophonist is leading his Tiny Universe on a deep dive into David Bowie’s catalog.

Lee Fields and the Expressions and Pachyman also perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at the Fillmore. Tickets start at $45 on livenation.com.

Lost Bayou Ramblers

ATTENTION CAJUN MUSIC LOVING VAMPIRES: If you want to catch

the Lost Bayou Ramblers live in the evening this festival season, your only chance will be at Zony Mash Thursday, May 5. The Ramblers play with Los Po-Boy-Citos, so the show is sure to get sweaty. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 at eventbrite.com.

Little Freddie King

IF YOU DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO CATCH HIS SET AT JAZZ FEST LAST WEEK , you can see the King

of the Gut Bucket Blues at his home bar, BJ’s. The 81-yearold Mississippi Delta native has played his particular brand of the blues in New Orleans for more than 50 years. Catch him here before he joins Irma Thomas and other New Orleans icons in New York this summer for a special performance at the Tribeca Film Festival. King plays at 9 p.m. Friday, May 6.

Admission is $20 at the door.

Daze Between

THERE’S A JAM-BAND BENT WITH STRING CHEESE INCIDENT perform-

ing on both days of the twostage mini-festival at Faubourg Brewery on May 3-4. Tuesday’s lineup also features Snarky Puppy, Eric Krasno & Friends, Nicholas Payton and more. On Wednesday, there’s Lettuce, Rebirth Brass Band, The Iceman Special, The Rumble and more.

Music is from 2 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on both days. Visit dazebetweennola.com for tickets and details.

Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington

THROUGHOUT HIS MORE THAN FIVE-DECADE CAREER PLAYING GUITAR , bluesman Walter

“Wolfman” Washington has performed with some of the greatest musicians of our time, including legendary New Orleanians Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams.

He and his tight backing band The Roadmasters are at d.b.a. on Frenchmen Street at 9 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4. Tickets are $15 in advance on eventbrite.com.

‘Matilda, the Musical’

BASED ON THE CHILDREN’S BOOK BY ROALD DAHL , the musical follows

the plight of a precocious girl with special gifts who tries to help her teacher get her life back in order. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts presents the show from Friday, May 6, through May 22. Find tickets at rivertowntheaters.com.

‘A Peep Show Named Desire’

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE” MARKS THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of its debut

this year. But Blanche DuBois may finally get what she wants in this burlesque and variety show production, put on by Lefty Lucy.

There’s singing by Jessica Mixon, a chorus of “Birdies” and more in the telling of Blanche’s story. The show runs Friday, May 6, though Monday, May 9, at the AllWays Lounge & Theatre. Showtimes vary. Tickets are $30-$50 via iloveleftylucy.com/peepshow.

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Mild at Heart

by Will Coviello

DESPITE PUBLISHING MORE THAN 40 BOOKS, INCLUDING NOVELS, POETRY AND NON-FICTION, Barry

Gifford’s most familiar work may be from two David Lynch films based on it. Lynch’s darkly funny and weird 1990 film “Wild at Heart” was based on Gifford’s novel of the same name. And the PHOTO PROVIDED BY ROB CHRISTOPHER two collaborated on the screenplay for the cryptic “Lost Highway,” which was adapted members, friends and associates. from Gifford’s novel “Night People.”

Everyone seems to have an exotic Gifford’s style was influenced by secret. In “Wild at Heart” — a book film noir and the Beat Generation from a series about the central — he co-authored a biography of characters — Sailor gets out of Jack Kerouac. But his own odd life, jail and tries to reunite with Lula, growing up on the edge of orgabut her mother objects and hires nized crime in Chicago, may have men to kill him. Sailor and Lula flee had more influence on the colorful the Southern Gothic horrors of and odd characters and events in Cape Fear, North Carolina, for the his fiction. He also wrote a series of Southwest and encounter more somewhat autobiographical tales, criminals and former convicts. collected and released as “The Roy Though the documentary Stories,” about a boy named Roy addresses Gifford’s childhood view who grows up in Chicago. That of his father’s mysterious profession, book is the basis for the 2020 docuit only delves so far, and the film mentary film “Roy’s World: Barry doesn’t have the pace or allure of Gifford’s Chicago,” which screens at a crime story. It takes more of an the Broad Theater this week. impressionistic Beatnik approach.

“Roy’s World” jumps back and The film incorporates minimalistic forth between excerpts from the line drawings, illustrations and crude stories and accounts of Gifford’s life, animation. Its narration is like a an approach that sometimes leaves long Beat poem over muffled jazz. the truth somewhere in between.

Narrating duties are split between Gifford says “The Roy Stories” are Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Willem based on his life and his reflections Dafoe, who starred in “Wild at Heart” on his relationship with his mother, with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. but he also calls them fiction.

Some of the allure of Gifford’s Gifford didn’t have a terribly story is the setting of Chicago, with conventional childhood. He grew its gangsters, political corruption up in hotel rooms in Chicago and and overall sense of toughness as New Orleans. His father died when the city became an industrial giant he was 12, but Gifford spent some of his younger years hanging out in his in the middle of the 20th century. father’s pharmacy and listening. In That’s all nicely illustrated in old the film, the suggestion is that getphotos and video. ting a pharmacist’s license and the But ultimately, director Rob ability to write prescriptions was one Christopher’s film suffers from a way to be useful to organized crime slow pace and often lacks immebosses. The pharmacy also offered diacy. Despite the flashes of lurid liquor, and Gifford concludes that he elements — like Chicago gangsters, had been hanging around with rackshowgirls and violence — Gifford’s eteers through his younger years. presence feels shadowy. The film Gifford’s mother was much may be best for fans with enough younger than his father. She had familiarity with his books and life been a Texas beauty queen and to make sense of its perspective. model, and her love for warmGifford has led a fascinating life, but weather Southern cities was always this account leaves out too much. looked on with suspicion in their “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago circles.

Chicago” screens at 7 p.m. Friday, Much of Gifford’s account of May 6, and Saturday, May 7, at his life and his fiction thrive on The Broad Theater. the mysterious sides of family

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