Mirroring many other parts of New Orleans in 2025, the city’s music community this year had a lot to celebrate, faced new ...

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has revealed its 2026 lineup, with the Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Lorde, David Byrne, and ...

Many musicians also had to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, so there was a fear that the city's musical culture could be lost. Then two prominent jazz musicians got together and created a ...

Bettis and 3rd Degree perform “Joe Avery’s Blues” at the Algiers Music and Artist Studio in New Orleans on Saturday, August 2, 2025. The band performed the traditional second line parade song at ...

SOURCE: New Orleans has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Music, joining nine other US cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, which recognizes the role of music in urban development and ...

Lil Wayne raised eyebrows when he announced dates for his upcoming Tha Carter VI Tour earlier this month. New Orleans, his hometown, was nowhere on the list of 35 dates. It’s far from the first time a ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. USA TODAY reporter Rick Jervis lived in New Orleans from 2007 to 2013, reporting on the city's recovery from the storm. Would New ...

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago, Troy Andrews was 19 years old, and already a seasoned professional musician who had toured with Lenny Kravitz. Andrews, better known as Trombone ...