Shows Around Town

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*=recommended
**=recommend and I will try to attend
Fri 02/25/11   *Panorama Brass Band Domino Sound Record Shack (2557 Bayou Road). 7PM. FREE.
Fri 02/25/11   *Carnaval Brawl--New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling is contributing to this Mardi Gras season with a Carnaval Brawl. We'll be at Maison (508 Frenchman St.) on Friday Feb 25th at 8 pm. DJ Justin will pump it up while our eight fresh new wrestlers use their strength and cunning to smackdown the competition. Remember, there's no cover charge but bring small bills for betting and bribing. Your bets could win you sweet prizes and proceeds go to a rad organization: This event benefits the New Orleans Birthing Project which exists to reduce the high infant mortality rate among minorities by pairing pregnant women with trained volunteers who provide practical support during pregnancy and for one year after the birth of their babies. Maison Musique. 8PM.

Fri 02/25/11   *The Generationals | Jean-Eric | Big History | Sun Hotel | Booty Trove | DJ Christoph Anderson | DJ Art//Official | DJ The Spectacle 6-11pm on the Tulane LBC QUAD. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
Fri 02/25/11  **Tera Melos and Marnie Stern plus Caddywhompus Parish $8.50

Fri 02/25/11   *The Meters Experience  Tipitina's Uptown 
Sat 02/26/11   *Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour One Eyed Jacks  $12
Sun 02/27/11  **Blockhead | Emancipator | The Great Mundane | This is Art Hookah. 9PM
Mon 02/28/11   *IL GIARDINO ARMONICO Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. $25 Adults, $10 Students
Il Giardino Armonico, winner of a 2001 Grammy Award for its Vivaldi Album with Cecilia Bartoli, was founded in Milan in 1985.

The ensemble brings together a number of graduates from some of Europe's leading colleges of music, all of whom have

specialized in playing on period instruments. The ensemble's repertory is concentrated in the main on the 17th and 18th

centuries and, depending on the demands of each program, the group will consist of anything from 3 to 30 musicians.  New

Orleans Friends of Music 504-895-0690
 
Tue 03/01/11   *Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Tue 03/01/11  **Josh Ritter  Tipitina's Uptown  $13.00
Wed 03/02/11  **The Walkmen  One Eyed Jacks $15.00
Fri 03/04/11  **OLD 97's | Those Darlins Tipitina's. 9PM. $18 Adv / $20 Door.
Fri 03/04/11    The New Orleans Bingo! Show   One Eyed Jacks $15
Sat 03/05/11  **Quintron & Miss Pussycat Thee Oh Sees Spellcaster Lodge
Mon 03/07/11   *The Black Lips, Quintron & Miss Pussycat  One Eyed Jacks 
BR Fri 03/11/11  *Baths, Gobble Gobble, Star Slinger Spanish Moon  

Fri 03/11/11   "Foburg Festival"  Frenchman Street 
Fri 03/11/11   *Ra Ra Riot, The Luyas, Givers One Eyed Jacks
Sat 03/12/11    "Foburg Festival"  Frenchman Street
Sun 03/13/11    "Foburg Festival"  Frenchman Street

http://foburgneworleans.com/
foburg is a 3-day alternative music festival on March 11-13, 2011 in 15 venues on and around Frenchmen Street in the greater

Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. foburg features rock, indie rock, and alternative artists from the greater Gulf South

and national touring artists on their way to SXSW in Austin TX, which is the following week. foburg also helps revitalize a

once-thriving, historic Frenchmen Street by drawing fans of a less "traditional" genres of music to its venues. Foburg 2010

featured 10 venues, 100 bands, and crowds approaching 10,000 people. foburg is produced by the noirCollective (New Orleans Indie Rock Collective), a group of music industry professionals dedicated to raising awareness of and building an infrastructure for the New Orleans Indie Rock scene. noirCollective produces sampler CDs and festivals that feature some of the best local, regional, and national indie rockers. neworleansindierock.com provides networking information to help artists grow and lists all the important information for fans to stay informed about all aspects of the New Orleans Indie Rock scene! Visit www.neworleansindierock.com for more info.

 

Sun 03/13/11  **Toro Y Moi, Cloud Nothings, Futurebirds Circle Bar $5?
Sun 03/13/11   *Cults Small Black  The Saint 
Mon 03/14/11  **Great Lake Swimmers Sharon Van Etten  One Eyed Jacks 
Mon 03/14/11   *Birds Of Avalon  Circle Bar 
Tue 03/15/11  **Menomena Megafaun  Republic New Orleans $12
Tue 03/15/11   *Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings  House Of Blues 
Wed 03/16/11  **KRONOS QUARTET Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m.in advance, $35 Adults, $20 Students; at the door, $40 Adults, $25

Students  For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey

Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to

expanding the range and context of the string quartet. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and

influential groups of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 45 recordings of

extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world's most eclectic composers and performers, and

commissioning more than 650 works and arrangements for string quartet. Kronos' work has also garnered numerous awards,

including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and "Musicians of the Year" (2003) from Musical America.
New Orleans Friends of Music 504-895-0690

Wed 03/16/11  **Mi Ami (San Francisco/New York, ex-Black Eyes, on Touch & Go) venue tba.
Sat 03/19/11   *Blue Oyster Cult  Boomtown Casino 
Fri 03/18/11    Ana Sia  Republic New Orleans
Fri 03/18/11   *Queens Of The Stone Age  One Eyed Jacks 
Sat 03/19/11  **Helmet | St. Vitus | Crowbar | Kylesa | Red Fang  | Howl  | The Atlas Moth
Saturday, March 19. One Eyed Jack's. 10PM. Metal Alliance Tour featuring Helmet performing Meantime in its entirety plus

hits.

Sat 03/19/11  **Low  Republic New Orleans
Sun 03/20/11   *The Cave Singers  Hi-Ho Lounge  
Sun 03/20/11   *Weedeater, Zoroaster Siberia
Sun 03/20/11  **Mike Watt & The Missingmen  One Eyed Jacks 
BR Mon 03/21/11  *Casiokids  Spanish Moon 

Mon 03/21/11  **Moon Duo | TRMRS | The Dives Moon Duo are an excellent psych/drone/garage duo from San Francisco (and members of Wooden Shjips), TRMRS are catchy West Coast garage pop, and The Dives are a great local noisy garage band. Saint. 10PM. FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Tue 03/22/11   *Omar Rodriguez Lopez  Parish
Tue 03/22/11    Xylos  Big Top 
Thu 03/24/11  **Murs Parish $12
Thu 03/24/11   *Apocalyptica  House Of Blues 
Fri 03/25/11    "Hogs For The Cause"  New Orleans City Park 
Sat 03/26/11  **WTUL Record Raid--Tulane's Zimple quad (off of Broadway across from The Boot/Mushroom). 11AM-5PM. FREE
Sat 03/26/11   *James Galway  Mahalia Jackson Theater For The Performing Arts
Mon 03/28/11  **Kevin Seconds, Exene Cervenka  One Eyed Jacks
Thu 03/31/11   *The Black Angels, w/Suuns  One Eyed Jacks 
Sat 04/02/11  **Florian Larousse Classical Guitar Series Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. FREE!
Sat 04/02/11   *MEN  Republic New Orleans $12
Mon 04/04/11    SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, piano Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. $25 Adults, $10 Students American pianist Simone

Dinnerstein has been gaining international attention since making a triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's

Weill Recital Hall in 2005 where she performed Bach's Goldberg Variations. A debut solo CD of the Variations on Telarc earned

the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart during its first week of sales. In addition to appearing on many "Best of

2007" lists, the disc received the prestigious Diapason d'Or Award in France in September 2008. New Orleans Friends of Music

504-895-0690

Tue 04/05/11  **The Residents Republic $18 Advance, $20 Door
Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions;

cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always

appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media

interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart,

the Residents channeled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of

electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip

Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.  It

was commonly accepted that the four-member group emigrated to San Francisco, CA, from Shreveport, LA, at some point in the

early '70s. According to longtime group spokesman Jay Clem -- one member of the so-called Cryptic Corporation, the band's

representative body -- they received their name when Warner Bros. mailed back their anonymous demo tape, addressed simply

"for the attention of residents."

Wed 04/06/11   *Band Of Horses  Tipitina's Uptown 
Thu 04/07/11  **The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart w/Twin Shadow One Eyed Jacks 
Thu 04/07/11  **Warpaint with PVT | Family Band Republic. 8PM. $14 ($12 in advance).
Sat 04/09/11    "French Quarter Festival"  French Quarter 
Sun 04/10/11    "French Quarter Festival"  French Quarter 
Mon 04/11/11  Lyrics Born  One Eyed Jacks 
Thu 04/14/11    The Raveonettes  Republic New Orleans
Thu 04/14/11    Lil' Wayne  New Orleans Arena 
Tue 04/19/11  **Acid Mother's Temple, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers  One Eyed Jacks $12.00            
Tue 04/19/11    Pete Yorn, Ben Kweller Howlin' Wolf
Fri 04/22/11  **Titus Andronicus  Circle Bar 
Sat 04/23/11  **Cut Copy, Holy Ghost! Republic New Orleans
Tue 04/26/11  **Interpol  House Of Blues 
Tue 04/26/11    Peelander-Z  One Eyed Jacks 
BR Tue 04/26/11  *Sleigh Bells, CSS  Varsity Theatre 
Fri 04/29/11    Irma Thomas  Touro Synagogue 
Wed 05/04/11  **Jon Spencer Blues Explosion  One Eyed Jacks 
Thu 05/05/11  **Femi Kuti  House Of Blues 
Fri 05/06/11  **Rusko  Contemporary Arts Center 
Sat 05/07/11   *Wolfgang Gartner  Contemporary Arts Center 
Fri 05/20/11   Zeke  One Eyed Jacks
Fri 06/03/11 **The Twilight Singers  Tipitina's Uptown 
Fri 06/10/11  *Rush  New Orleans Arena
Sat 06/18/11   Percy Sledge  Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis (Bay Saint Louis) 
Fri 07/01/11   "Essence Music Festival"  Louisiana Superdome            
Sat 07/02/11   "Essence Music Festival"  Louisiana Superdome            
Sun 07/03/11   "Essence Music Festival"  Louisiana Superdome
Fri 10/14/11   "Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival"  Lafayette Square Park 
Sun 10/16/11   "Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival"  Lafayette Square Park 
Fri 10/28/11   "Voodoo Experience"  New Orleans City Park     
Sat 10/29/11   "Voodoo Experience"  New Orleans City Park     
Sun 10/30/11   "Voodoo Experience"  New Orleans City Park 

 

Shows Around Town!!!

Hello and Happy New Year!  I am sorry I haven't sent one of these out in well forever--but if you want off this list reply to me and change the subject line to remove and you will be gone...

 

There are a great deal of good shows coming this year so take a look--hope this helps.

 

The one show I would recommend buying tickets to/seeing is The Residents.

 

Darren

*=recommended
**=recommend and I will try to attend
Fri 01/14/11  **Funky Meters Featuring Art Neville, George Porter, Jr., Russell Batiste, & Special Guest Brian Stoltz.

Tipitina's. 10PM. $30.
Sat 01/15/11   *Evening of Difficult Music #30 (I can't belive they are on #30!--D) Music by Jeff Pagano with:
Helen Gillet Luke Brechtelsbauer Sarah Quintana Joseph Beinvenu Mykia Jovan Joseph Makkos Saturday - January 15, 2011
McKeown's Books and Difficult Music 8:00 - 10:00 PM 4737 Tchoupitoulas FREE!

Sat 01/15/11  **Lorn|Teebs|Mono/Poly The Maison 10PM (Lorn had the best beat driven LPs released last year.  This is a

Brainfeeder Record show case--Flying Lotus' Record Label.-D)
Sun 01/16/11    Teeny Bopper | Tension Fields | R.S.P. Mudlark Theatre. 8PM. $5
Wed 01/26/11  **Best Coast, Wavves, No Joy HOB $17
Fri 01/28/11   *Allen Toussaint  Generations Hall 
Sat 01/29/11    2011 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. 10AM. $25 and up (discounts

available). James Marsters, Julie Benz, Louis Gossett Jr., Ray Park, Adam West, Burt Ward, Billy Dee Williams, and Peter Tork

are among the celebrities and industry professionals at Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, part of North America's largest

pop-culture touring expo, Jan. 29-30 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Thousands of fans will be on hand

to celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, comics, toys, video gaming, television, gaming, original art, collectibles,

contests and more.
Sat 01/29/11  **Yo La Tengo | William Tyler Tipitina's. 10PM. $15.
Mon 01/31/11  *Monotonix with Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship One Eyed Jacks  $12
BR Tue 02/01/11  *Ladysmith Black Mambazo  Manship Theatre            
BR Wed 02/02/11  *Ladysmith Black Mambazo  Manship Theatre
Thu 02/03/11  **Bounce IV with Big Freedia, Katey Red, Rusty Lazer + more Republic $8 Advance, $10 Door
BR Fri 02/04/11  *Free Energy  Spanish Moon 
Sat 02/05/11   *The Dirty Dozen Brass Band  D.B.A. 
Mon 02/07/11   *ARNAUD SUSSMANN, violin, with piano accompanist Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. $25 Adults, $10 Students 
Twenty-four year old violinist Arnaud Sussmann is quickly earning a reputation as a multi-faceted and compelling artist,

receiving the highest praise from both critics and audiences alike. Awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009,

he has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Sussmann studied with

Itzhak Perlman, who chose him to be a Starling Fellow, an honor qualifying him as Mr. Perlman's teaching assistant for the

past two years.  New Orleans Friends of Music 504-895-0690

Sat 02/12/11  **Edel Munoz Classical Guitar Series Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. FREE!
Sat 02/12/11  **Salt-N-Pepa  Kurtis Blow, Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, Slick Rick, Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, Rob Base, Naughty By Nature, and Biz Markie  Lakefront Arena 8:00 pm - 1:00 am $55
Sat 02/05/11  **Yann Tiersen w/Sean Carey Republic New Orleans $20 
Tue 02/15/11  **Broken Social Scene Tipitina's. 9PM. $21
Sat 02/19/11   *George Winston, piano concert Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall- Loyola University 7:30 PM $40-20
BR Thu 02/24/11  *Mavis Staples  Manship Theatre
Fri 02/25/11  **Tera Melos and Marnie Stern plus Caddywhompus Parish $8.50
Sat 02/26/11   *Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour One Eyed Jacks  $12
Mon 02/28/11   *IL GIARDINO ARMONICO Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. $25 Adults, $10 Students
Il Giardino Armonico, winner of a 2001 Grammy Award for its Vivaldi Album with Cecilia Bartoli, was founded in Milan in 1985.

The ensemble brings together a number of graduates from some of Europe's leading colleges of music, all of whom have

specialized in playing on period instruments. The ensemble's repertory is concentrated in the main on the 17th and 18th

centuries and, depending on the demands of each program, the group will consist of anything from 3 to 30 musicians.  New

Orleans Friends of Music 504-895-0690
 
Wed 03/02/11  **The Walkmen  One Eyed Jacks $15.00
Tue 03/01/11  **Josh Ritter  Tipitina's Uptown  $13.00
Fri 03/04/11  **OLD 97's | Those Darlins Tipitina's. 9PM. $18 Adv / $20 Door.
Fri 03/04/11    The New Orleans Bingo! Show   One Eyed Jacks $15
BR Fri 03/11/11  *Baths, Gobble Gobble, Star Slinger Spanish Moon  
Sun 03/13/11  **Toro Y Moi, Cloud Nothings, Futurebirds Circle Bar $5?
Tue 03/15/11  **Menomena  Republic New Orleans $12
Wed 03/16/11  **KRONOS QUARTET Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m.in advance, $35 Adults, $20 Students; at the door, $40 Adults, $25

Students  For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey

Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to

expanding the range and context of the string quartet. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and

influential groups of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 45 recordings of

extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world's most eclectic composers and performers, and

commissioning more than 650 works and arrangements for string quartet. Kronos' work has also garnered numerous awards,

including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and "Musicians of the Year" (2003) from Musical America.
New Orleans Friends of Music 504-895-0690

 

Wed 03/16/11  **Mi Ami (San Francisco/New York, ex-Black Eyes, on Touch & Go) venue tba.
Sat 03/19/11   *Blue Oyster Cult  Boomtown Casino 
Sun 03/20/11  **Mike Watt & The Missingmen  One Eyed Jacks 
Thu 03/24/11  **Murs Parish $12
Thu 03/24/11   *Apocalyptica  House Of Blues 
Sat 03/26/11   *James Galway  Mahalia Jackson Theater For The Performing Arts
Sat 04/02/11  **Florian Larousse Classical Guitar Series Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. FREE!
Sat 04/02/11   *MEN  Republic New Orleans $12
Mon 04/04/11    SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, piano Tulane Dixon Hall 8:00 p.m. $25 Adults, $10 Students American pianist Simone

Dinnerstein has been gaining international attention since making a triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's

Weill Recital Hall in 2005 where she performed Bach's Goldberg Variations. A debut solo CD of the Variations on Telarc earned

the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart during its first week of sales. In addition to appearing on many "Best of

2007" lists, the disc received the prestigious Diapason d'Or Award in France in September 2008. New Orleans Friends of Music

504-895-0690

Tue 04/05/11  **The Residents Republic $18 Advance, $20 Door
Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions;

cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always

appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media

interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart,

the Residents channeled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of

electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip

Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.  It

was commonly accepted that the four-member group emigrated to San Francisco, CA, from Shreveport, LA, at some point in the

early '70s. According to longtime group spokesman Jay Clem -- one member of the so-called Cryptic Corporation, the band's

representative body -- they received their name when Warner Bros. mailed back their anonymous demo tape, addressed simply

"for the attention of residents."

Thu 04/07/11  **The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart w/Twin Shadow One Eyed Jacks 
Tue 04/19/11  **Acid Mother's Temple, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers  One Eyed Jacks $12.00            

 

Shows Around Town: Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda

Life has been very busy and I am sorry I have not sent one of these out in quite sometime, I want to hi-light this show because I feel many people on this list would enjoy it but do not know about it.  This is a free show of a wonderful band that very rarely plays in the US.  Don't just take my word for it--read the NYT review below--they loved them.

 

I will send out a definitive Jazzfest List soon.

 

Thanks,

Darren

 

Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda is a 10-piece brass band that plays the high energy rhythms of their Brazilian state of Pernambuco mixed with Afro-Beat and Latin grooves.

On Wednesday, April 7 from 7:30-9:00 pm, the band will perform at Dixon Recital Hall in Dixon Annex 152 at Tulane University. A reception will follow the show. FREE!

New York Times gave the Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda 's performance at Lincoln Center a great review. 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/music/03atrium.html?ref=music