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The 41st annual French Quarter Festival kicks off this week with new programming and music stages. Plus, hear what the eclipse sounded like in Louisiana and across the United States.

Evan Christopher began playing clarinet in junior high school in Long Beach, CA. His first introduction to New Orleans music was hearing Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens with Johnny Dodds and Artie Shaw on his dad’s records. Evan moved to New Orleans in his early 20s. Here he worked as a steamboat clarinetist by day and explored the music scene on Frenchmen Street by night. He went on to collaborate with Tom McDermott, Al Hirt, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Galactic, and others. His “Clarinet Road” led him from Socal to New Orleans, San Antonio, Paris, and he now resides in New York City. Evan told us how he came to understand the music of New Orleans.

Sea Change heads to Cameron Parish to discover what the expansion of liquified natural gas, or LNG, plants means for the people living near them. Plus, a Mississippi program aims to turn formerly incarcerated people into lobbyists.

Louisiana Supreme Court justices ruled against objections by the city-parish of East Baton Rouge, which had claimed St. George’s incorporation was “unreasonable.”

This is American Routes, our program, “How many Roads? Bob Dylan’s Back Pages.” Joan Baez sang and recorded many of Bob’s songs of love and loss.

Louisiana Supreme Court justices ruled against objections by the city-parish of East Baton Rouge, which had claimed St. George’s incorporation was “unreasonable.”

Tulane University closed parts of campus and suspended several students after demonstrators constructed a “Free Gaza” encampment on Monday. The school has since cleared the protesters.

This Continuum explores early music composed and/or performed by women.

In this final episode of "All Gassed Up," we travel to Japan to learn about the country's liquefied natural gas plant expansion.

The Dixie Cups’ 1964 hit “Chapel of Love” knocked the Beatles out of the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The girl group is the focus of Jazz Fest’s official poster this year.