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September 3rd

 

Khris Royal & Dark Matter
Blue Nile (10:00 PM)

 

Ani DiFranco
Blue Nile - Balcony Room (9:00 PM)

 

Something seems off about this, but it's true. Acoustic Sets! Sold Out.
 

Southern Decadence Welcome Parade

Kicks off at Elysian and Royal.

If you're gay... or you like beads... or you like nudity... this is the place to be!


Sasha Masakowski

BMC (7:00 PM)

What a voice!


Clockwork Elvis

BoomTown Casino (9:00 PM)  

IF ONLY FOR THE MULLET AND TOOTH COUNTING A SERIOUS CHANGE OF SCENERY. BEN WE NEED TO COVER THIS STORY WITH A SUITCASE FULL OF NARCOTICS...HUNTER"S SPIRIT DEMANDS IT. TOO BAD I"M OUTTA TOWN.


Tribute to Joni Mitchell featuring Susan Cowsill, Randy Jackson, Irvin Mayfield, Jimmy Robinson, Davis Rogan, and Bill Davis
Howlin' Wolf (8:00 PM)


Preservation Hall Jazz Masters featuring Leroy Jones
Preservation Hall (8:00 PM)


Ellis Marsalis Trio
Snug harbor (8:00 PM)

 

Like we always say, "Show us a bad Marsalis! I dare you!"

Samedi

September 4th

Grassroots! Hip Hop Showcase
Dragon's Den (11:30pm)
Hosted by Truth Universal, this event brings out the best homegrown hip hop talent Esplanade Avenue has ever known.


Love Gun: A KISS Tribute

One Eyed Jack's (10pm)
"More than a cover band," they tell me. "An experience." 

Luke Winslow King
Blue Nile (11 PM)
As if every NOLA/Delta/SoLa style of music melded into one man with superhuman talent.


Marlon Jordan

BMC (9:30 PM)

One badass trumpet player!


Jermaine Quiz Entourage

Bridge Lounge (10:00 PM)

Funk to Jazz to HipHop, get ready for a ride.


Superstar Brass Band
The Maison (10:00 PM)


Navy Show Band South Outreach Concert

National WWII Museum (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)

Not only is it Labor day Weekend, ut these guys are extremely talented!


Deacon John & the Ivories

Snug Harbor (8:00 PM)

A legend... and Antoine Batiste's mentor!


Red Stripe Light Presents Soul Rebels Brass Band + Flow Tribe

Tipitina's (10:00 PM)

Free your mind, secondline!

Dimanche

September 5th

Guitar Lightnin' Lee & 3G Production & Ernie Vincent
Mother-In-Law Lounge (8PM)
The venue's still open, and you should go to this blues show.

 

Labor Day

September 6th

Black Men of Labor

Begins at Sweet Lorraine's.

A must-see! Secondline parades at their best!

 

 

Sam Cammarata

Apple Barrell (8:00 PM)

If you like his show on the OZ, go check him out in person!

 

Glen David Andrews

d.b.a. (9:00 PM)

Trombone Shorty's tall brother knows how to throw a party. Some jazz, some funk, and a healthy dose of Second Line pornlines.

 

Monday Super Jam hosted by Gene Harding featuring Rue Fiya

Jayna Morgan & The Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band

The Maison (10:00 PM)

Bring your instrument, and be prepared to jump on stage and jam!

 

Papa Grows Funk

Maple Leaf (10:00 PM)

Classic band, Classic Venue!

 

Charmaine Neville Band

Snug Harbor (8, 10)

The matriarch of a NOLA Jazz Dynasty.

Mardi

September 7th

Mark Weliky Trio

Bacchanal Fine Wine & Spirits (7:30 PM)

A musician's musician, and a local's local. Relax to some classic jazz.

 

Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers

Bullet's Sports Bar (8:30 PM)

If you live here and want to see Kermit without the hype, get some; if you're visiting, wait for Thursday at Vaughn's.

 

OpenHouse Music Presents: The Big Busk! Music & Burlesque featuring The Dirty Bourbon River Show

Howlin' Wolf - "The Den" (9:00 PM)

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Put the jokes aside, burlesque is back! Plus, the rest of the evening will feature NOLA's finest street performers. A must see.

 

Cluck! Nite featuring Three Piece Spicy + Creole Cookin'

Maple Leaf (7:00 pm)

Rebirth Brass Band

Maple Leaf (10:00 pm)

If you need an explanation, you should definitely be at this show! Run, don't walk!

 

New Birth Brass Band

Preservation Hall (8:00 PM)

If your summer is not sweaty enough, head to the Hall and dance your ass off with some second line stage show.

 

Godwin Louis Trio

Snug Harbor (8:00 PM)

Up and coming Sax virtuouso out of CT has arrived in the Big Easy, and found a perfect match with our sound. Check him out!

 

Organ & Labyrinth with Albinas Prizgintas

Trinity Episcopal Church

THIS DUDE IS AWESOME!

 

Feeding the Animals

A NoDef Theatre Review



For a show whose performances revolve around ideas of sex and sexuality, “Adult Petting Zoo” is surprisingly...well...unsexy. At turns funny, lewd, transgressive, whimsical and good old-fashioned weird, the show's acts rely less on sensuality than on surprise and sheer strangeness.

Boundary-prodding and hugely entertaining, “Zoo” is not exactly somewhere you'd want to go on a first date, but it's definitely something worth doing.

“Zoo” is the latest offering from New Orleans Fringe, best known for the Fringe Fest alternative theater showcase. Directed by Emilie Whelan, “Zoo” features several short performances by local and non-local artists, including a reprisal of a performance by a Fringe Fest act called Jazz Hand Job. The comment-defying nature of this name is par for the course for the Fringe folks, who claim “there is nothing too big, too bold, or too dangerous.”

Before the show's opening Thursday night, the atmosphere at the AllWays Lounge had the merry feel of being backstage at a school play. Costumed performers ran to and fro, while a young man in a mixed floral dress and unshaven legs clung to a light rig. A small audience huddled warily around the bar, including a pair of senior citizens, who looked prepared for nothing to shock them. Suddenly, a campy, horror-movie green light flooded one corner, and the show began.

“It was like being sucked up into a drainpipe into deep water,” playwright Gabrielle Reisman intoned – the joke being, of course, that there was no simile. In her performance, she delivers a timely monologue as a personification of oil. Though the rest of the show is relatively apolitical, the somber issue and her moody commentary set the tone for the “deep water” the rest of “Adult Petting Zoo” drags us out to. Many of the performances have a tongue-in-cheek quality, but the stakes are always raised when sex is involved, and “Zoo” plays deftly with that concept. A performance by Skin Horse Theater suddenly swerves into dark territory from a lighthearted, Beach-Boys-backed burlesque act, getting commandeered by a dictatorial, audience-abusing cabaret master. (The act's end, with its unsettling silence in a bit built around a D.H. Lawrence story, is especially chilling.)

Other moments are more lighthearted. A performance imagining legislators sifting through the material studied by the Meese Commission provides the show's first real laughs, and a bawdy segment based mostly in pantomime shows charm and athleticism on the part of the performers. The pantomime segment is staged in a side area, where the audience sits close enough to see the beads of sweat on the entertainers' skin, and to be roped into their comical embraces. This segment may go on a little too long – it's still entertaining, but spans too much time to ask audiences (and curmudgeonly reporters) to sit on the floor.

Jazz Hand Job's “Rigorous Disco of Doom,” a longer-form, mixed-mythology performance, features the ever-popular undead, along with a set of droll bird costumes that might have been captured from the set of a Japanese children's television program. This segment features the best costuming of the show, with a motherboard hung around the neck of a space-nymph and some glittering anatomical augmentation. At the show's close, the performers absorbed the audience into a jubilant and sweaty dance party. Performers from other segments got in on the act, casting away the evening's prurience in favor of innocent fun.

 

Where: AllWays Lounge/Marigny Theater

When: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Saturday 11 p.m.

How Much: $15

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