A Toast to New Orleans and You - Week of October 2- 9 : A Wonderful World/ A Stake Out Police Luncheon/ An Evening with Walter Isaacson/ Gretna Fest /Opera Ball and more
This is going to be a very hectic week for me & I cannot wait!
Advisor , educator, and a board member of the Wine & Food Foundation ! The Beauregard-Keyes House is a historic residence located at 1113 Chartres Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a National Historic Landmark built in 1826. This architectural treasure is an outstanding example of a raised center hall villa and includes both Creole and American features in an elaborately detailed residence. BK House’s diverse history includes the stories of those who both lived and labored here for nearly 200 years, offering a unique educational experience to visitors, which furthers the understanding of New Orleans history. The house, parterre garden and lovely courtyard have been featured in several films and television shows and are favorites for guided tours, weddings, and special events.
 | Oct. 1-7: Banned Book Week www.nola.com |
Announcing our Exciting Lineup
The New Orleans Jazz Museum and the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park are proud to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Starting Friday, September 22 through Friday, October 13, you can enjoy weekly live music performances as we honor Hispanic Heritage Month. Prepare to immerse yourself in the vibrant cultures and traditions of Latin America through these captivating performances. The concerts will be held inside our third-floor Performance Center every Friday @ 2 PM with two special Balcony shows in the museum’s courtyard on Tuesday, September 19 & Tuesday, October 10 starting at 5:00 PM.
Mark your calendars for a month-long celebration, connection & fun for everyone!
FREE admission for all!
2023 HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION LINE-UP
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 Los Guiros 2:00 PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Rumba Buena 5:00 P.M. BALCONY CONCERT
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 Oscar Linero 2:00 PM
All events are free and open to the public; seating is limited and offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Learn more about our program admission policy.
 | A Cultural Festival Featuring Music, Food, Fun, Family & More. Discover the Greatness of Gretna Gretna Fest is a culture festival in Gretna, Louisiana. The festival offers live music from local, national, and international acts, food, arts & crafts, games, … Continue reading → gretnafest.com |
 | A nonprofit foundation based in New York will sponsor a free concert of classical music Oct. 12 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. in Metairie. www.nola.com |
 | Local officials are launching a sweeping new effort to combat New Orleans' homelessness crisis, with plans in the works to block off encampments around the city one at a time www.nola.com |
 | The Rubber Duck Derby fundraiser raised money for Second Harvest Food Bank on Big Lake in City Park. Participants could sponsor a duck for $5 each. The top 13 winners www.nola.com |
 | Women gathered for the annual luncheon, fashion show and reenactment of the "Storming of the Sazerac" at the The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel. www.nola.com |
Nickel a Dance -Celebrating our 30th Season!
Sundays in October, 2023
4pm - 7pm
at
508 Frenchmen Street
No Cover Charge | Donations to the Band and NOJC Welcome
ABOUT NICKEL-A-DANCE
Now in its 30th Year, NICKEL-A-DANCE is a free series of Sunday afternoon jazz concerts that began in 1994, and now take place each Spring and Fall season that is a hit with children, families, seniors and the general dancing public who don’t tend to go to night clubs. It attracts a diverse group of fans that meet on Frenchmen Street to celebrate jazz as America’s original dance music, while listening to the best of today’s classic jazz bands.
"Nickel" offers a weekly dance soirée that is friendly to lovers of all ages, where drinking from a bar is not a central focus of the gathering.
October 8th
Davell Crawford
Trad Jazz Band
Known as "The Prince of New Orleans," Davell Crawford is an all-around musical sensation as a pianist, singer, songwriter, and performer. Raised in the church, Davell is the grandson of the rhythm & blues star James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, who wrote the New Orleans hit song “Jockomo,” later known as “Iko Iko.”
Davell has been playing piano since he was 7 years old and although he didn't know his grandfather was a musician at the time, the elder Crawford gave him a keyboard when he was 11, and he soon first toured Europe in his early teens.
Like so many New Orleans musicians, Crawford brings a synthesis of styles to his playing, weaving together funk, gospel, and R&B to his piano playing, songwriting and singing. A Steinway endorsed pianist, Davell has released more than 7 albums since 1995 on imprints such as Rounder Records, Basin Street Records, and more. Bill Taylor from Blues Access proclaims that, “Plain and simple, Davell Crawford is one of the most talented musicians alive.”
This evening is a RARE opportunity to experience Davell lead a band
of local legends in a return to some of his early heritage, in this intimate,
dance-able setting!
October 15th
New Leviathan
Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra
The New Leviathan Oriental FoxTrot Orchestra is an American revival orchestra, that performs authentic orchestrations of vintage American popular music from the 1890s through the early 1930s.
In addition to the well-known compositions of jazz and ragtime composers like Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, and Eubie Blake, the orchestra's repertory includes the work of other New Orleans Tin Pan Alley composers such as Larry Buck, Joe Verges, Paul Sarebresole, and Nick Clesi.
Taking its name from the SS Leviathan, a transatlantic ocean liner with a well-regarded dance band at the start of the 1920s, the orchestra was founded in 1972. Their first performance was at Tulane University, presenting a rather tongue-in-cheek concert of "Best-Loved Oriental Foxtrots," partially satirizing the then-current revival of scholarly interest in classic ragtime. They've been together ever since, still recruiting new musicians along the way.
October 22nd
Kermit Ruffins
& The BBQ Swingers
From playing himself in the HBO Series Tremé, to barbecuing outside his bar, Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge, to sitting in with Jon Batiste and Stay Human on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, trumpeter & vocalist
Kermit Ruffins keeps himself busy when he isn’t on stage doing what he does best—entertaining and sharing his love of life with the world.
But he did not come by his gifts easily. Ruffins did his homework and developed his stage persona and musical act by studying artists who came before him. He watched videos of Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway until the tape wore out, cut his teeth busking the streets of the French Quarter, and apprenticed on stages with local legends “Uncle” Lionel Batiste and Danny Barker. While still in high school, he co-founded the Rebirth Brass Band, but eventually left the touring band to return home to the culture he missed so much, launching The BBQ Swingers, now a beloved New Orleans institution.
Some say Ruffins resembles king pops, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong himself.
Join us this evening for Kermit's first time back at Nickel-A-Dance
in more than 5 years, and you be the judge...!
October 29th
Herlin Riley
& The Crescent City Joymakers
with special guest Shannon Powell!
New Orleans is a drummer’s town. But in this town full of first class drummers, Herlin Riley is “the” drummer. The Baron of the Boom Boom. The Pulse that keeps the life flowing through any body of work.
Born into a musical family steeped in gospel, blues and jazz, Herlin was asked by Wynton Marsalis to join him in New York in 1988 where Herlin stayed for almost 20 years, all the while still maintaining a home in New Orleans.
Today, he still is a regularly featured musician with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, but has since been based back in his hometown when he wasn't on tour with Ahmad Jamal, Dr. John, or Harry Connick, Jr. He lights up any stage with just his presence alone, and always fires up the first class musicians who love to play with him.
+ Plus! "The King of Tremé," Mr. Shannon Powell himself guests for this special installment of Nickel, making for a powerful rhythm fest of a finale to our 30th Year carrying the flame for jazz-dance tradition.
WYES MIMOSAS & MASTERPIECE “World on Fire, Season 2”
Saturday, October 7
Doors Open: 10:30am
Screening: 11am
WYES | 916 Navarre Ave. | New Orleans
$25
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 | Pork rules the day at the upcoming Pig Tales 2023 Food Forum at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a "gumbo" of historians, writers, chefs and more with information on food www.nola.com |
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