New Orleans Music

After two COVID-19 delays in just as many years, James Taylor played in New Orleans with Jackson Browne on Saturday, Oct. 16. But as Gwen Thompkins writes, this concert was different than his past live events.

People Museum is about half of what its name suggests. This group of alternative pop musicians has been building a reputation at gigs around New Orleans.…

Each Friday, NolaVie brings us brief conversations with local artists and culture bearers. For their new monthly series, Conversations with Artists,…

NolaVie brings us another installment of the occasional music series, Listening to Locals. Dianella is the latest solo project of songwriter and violinist…

Outside New Orleans, Walter “Wolfman” Washington may not be a household name. Nevertheless, he’s spent decades touring as a sideman with some of our…

New Orleans-based Putumayo Records is celebrating 25 years this spring, and expanding its business model to include streaming, children's books and…

Edge Slayer is a New Orleans-based multimedia artist and music producer. Alongside an LGBTQ+ group of organizers, she helps to put on events that provide…

Julie Odell has been writing music for most of her life — often accompanied by just a piano or a guitar. In this edition of NolaVie’s occasional series,…

“Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans,” by Louis Armstrong“Treat It Gentle,” by Sidney Bechet“Under a Hoodoo Moon, The Life of Dr. John, The Nightripper,” by…

Susan Larson, host of The Reading Life, talks with local authors and readers about their favorite books from three hundred years of New Orleans…