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The Historic New Orleans Collection/The Historic New Orleans Collection spotlights street performer Mamie Marie Francois.
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Conversation with acclaimed tenor, actor and native son Anthony Laciura. -
Aurora Nealand was recently praised as one of the top ten soprano saxophonists in America by Downbeat Magazine. She grew up in an eccentric family on the California coast and then Colorado, listening to Stravinsky, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Joan Baez and the Pixies. Her mom was a gardener who played classical piano, her dad an archivist who went to rock band practice between jobs. She received musical training at Oberlin College and Jacques Lecoq School of Physical Theatre in Paris, all before embarking on a bike trip across the US to chronicle the dreams of rural America. In 2004 Aurora ended up in New Orleans, where she learned to play traditional jazz in the streets. Now she leads her band, the Royal Roses, and sometimes has the persona of Rory Danger. Aurora attributes the interest in a broad range of styles to her travels and nontraditional upbringing.
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This week on 'The Reading Life', Susan Larson talks with Megan Burns about the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and poet Peter Cooley, about his new poetry…
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It’s a Spring Awakening, and we’ve got songs about bunny hops, rockin’ robins, and fragrant flowers but also lonely hours, gospel prayers and post…
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On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us We’re Not #1, What the Frack?, News of the Warm, Karzai Talk, News of the Godly, The Apologies of the…
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Susan Larson talks with Augustin J. Correro, whose new book is "Tennessee Williams 101" and we'll preview the 35th annual Tennessee Williams & Literary…
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We’re delving deep into the words and music of Dan Penn, whose songs made the charts with so many great artists from Aretha Franklin to Conway Twitty and…
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On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Atom, The Octopod, It’s a Smart World, The Apologies of the…
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This week on The Reading Life: Tori Bush and Richard Goodman, editors of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing. March 19 calendarThe…
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Theresa Sokol has barely taken a day off since the pandemic began. She’s Louisiana’s Acting State Epidemiologist. In this first-person oral history from…
