The George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center

The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series concludes with Balfa Toujours

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series featuring Balfa Toujours live in concert on Saturday, June 17, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street). Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm.

About Balfa Toujours

Balfa Toujours, meaning Balfa Always, is headed by Christine Balfa, the daughter of the late Cajun Ambassador, Dewey Balfa. Courtney Granger adds to the family affair with his soulful singing and fiddling. Kevin Wimmer, one of the finest fiddlers around, is a founding member of Balfa Toujours. He studied directly with Dewey for many years. When Courtney and Kevin Wimmer take off on twin fiddle adventures, they can steal your breath away. With the addition of Jean- Jaques Aucoin on accordion and Shane Guidry on bass, both bring their passion and family musical heritage into the band that keeps dancers always on the floor. Along with Balfa Toujours beautiful renditions of traditional songs, the band's original music brings lyrics that are always thoughtful, whether hilarious, or penetratingly sad. They are sometimes joined by Christine’s sister, Nelda Balfa, also a founding member of the band. The family passion for music has also been passed on to both of Christine’s daughters, Ameila and Sophie Powell. Balfa Toujours is not only a band, they are family. Their reason for the bands birth in 1993 still rings true today, 27 years later. Creating their music brings them joy and happiness. And at the same time, it fosters and continues the music and the passion for life of the Balfa family. They feel blessed to be able to share this and hopefully inspire others to do the same.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Photograph courtesy of the artists

The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series with Keith Frank & The Soileau Zydeco Band

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series featuring Keith Frank & The Soileau Zydeco Band live in concert on Friday, June 16, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street). Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm.

About Keith Frank & The Soileau Zydeco Band

Keith Frank is a zydeco musician from Soileau, Louisiana. He plays the accordion and formed his band The Soileau Zydeco Band in 1990. Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band released their debut studio album What's His Name? in 1994 and went on to release the albums Movin' On Up in 1995, Only the Strong Survive in 1996, You'd Be Surprised in 1997, On A Mission in 1998, Ready or Not in 2000, The Masked Band in 2001, Keith Frank EP in 2002, The Zydeco Icon in 2003, Going to See Keith Frank in 2005, Undisputed in 2007, To Be Perfectly Frank in 2007, Loved. Feared. Respected in 2008, Follow the Leader in 2012, One Night At Cowboy's in 2017, and Return of the King in 2018. They also released these live albums: Live at Slim's Y-Ki-Ki in 1999, and Live at Slim’s Y Ki Ki, Vol. II in 2014.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Photograph courtesy of the artists

The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series with Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series featuring Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots live in concert on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street). Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm.

About Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots

Bruce Sunpie Barnes is a New Orleans musician, former park ranger with the National Park Service, actor, photographer, book author, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Sunpie Barnes' many careers have taken him far and wide. He has traveled to over 60 countries playing his own style of what he calls Afro-Louisiana music incorporating blues, zydeco, gospel, Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist, mastering accordion, harmonica, and piano along with rubboard, talking drum, and dejembe. He learned accordion from some of the best Zydeco pioneers in Louisiana, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy.

Along with his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has performed at festivals and concerts across the US and around the globe. He has collaborated with music gurus such as Harold Brown (WAR), Willie Dixon (Father of Chicago Blues),and Trey Anastasio (Phish). Sunpie has recorded 7 critically acclaimed CDs with his compositions currently featured in 16 Hollywood film productions.

In addition to this musical work he is also a former member of the Paul Simon Band that embarked on a 58 city world tour “Paul Simon and Sting Together”, which span 47 countries (2014,15 and 16). In 2018 Latin Super Star Carlos Vives invited Sunpie along with the Louisiana Sunspots to perform with him at the 51st annual Vallenato Festival in Valledupar, Columbia.

Film acting has also been an important part of his busy career. Sunpie’s work has appeared in such Hollywood productions as Point of No Return, Deja Vu, Under Cover Blues, Jonah Hex, Treme,The Big Easy, Skeleton Key, Heartless, The Gates Of Silence Odd Girl Out, The African Americans, Sesame Street, NCIS New Orleans, Queen Sugar and Mayfair Witches.

He is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and co-authored the 2015 critically acclaimed book “Talk That Music Talk” - Passing On Brass Band Music In New Orleans “The Traditional Way”. Over 300 of Sunpie’s photographs are featured in this book. Le Kèr Creole is his latest book that also has a 15 song disc of music composed in Louisiana Creole. He is the Big Chief of the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, one of the oldest existing Black Carnival groups in New Orleans. Sunpie is also a member of the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Photography by Eric Simon

The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series continues with Amanda Shaw

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series featuring Amanda Shaw live in concert on Friday, June 9, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street). Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm.

About Amanda Shaw

Energetic Louisiana fiddler Amanda Shaw blazes trails with her clever songwriting and exciting performances. With over 20 years of experience, Shaw captivates audiences of all sizes – from intimate listening rooms to national television audiences. Shaw blends authentic Cajun culture with endearing local charm, delivering shows that burst with Louisiana flavor.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Photography by Eric Simon

Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series: T Broussard ft. Mary Broussard

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series with T Broussard featuring Mary Broussard live in concert on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street).

About T Broussard

The artist Bryant Keith "T” Broussard’s fate as a Zydeco musician was sealed long before he was born. He is a descendent of Creole and Zydeco music icons. His mother, Mary Jane Ardoin, stands alone as a female who has mastered the idiom of the traditional Creole accordion, a talent that was undoubtedly transcended from her uncle Bois Sec Ardoin, Creole music pioneer, her uncle Carlton Frank, a world-known Creole violinist, and many others in the profession.

Also included in that family trend is Queen Ida, the Grammy-winning Zydeco veteran of the West Coast. Bryant recalls childhood memories of playing drums or scrub board while his mother performed for audiences at local dances.

It was not until 1993, at the age of 21, that he began to take his talents seriously and established his own band. Since then he has worked with unwavering ambition to achieve excellence in his destined career.

He has been booked for performances from coast to coast. Some of his performances include both East and West Coast tours. A few of the festivals Bryant has performed in includes the Memphis, Tennessee Beale Street Festival, the Sparks, Nevada July 4th Festival, the Alabama Blues Festival, and the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival.

Other prominent local Louisiana events include the Zydeco Extravaganza in Opelousas, The Cajun Hot Sauce Festival in New Iberia, The Mudbug Festival in Shreveport, and numerous casino performances in Lake Charles, Kinder, Vinton, Marksville, and New Orleans.

Some of his musical recordings can even be heard as the background music to promotional radio commercials and a Discovery Channel television program.

​Accordionist, Singer, & Songwriter are among several of Bryant's musical talents. He also plays drums, scrub board, and bass guitar. Although zydeco music is Bryant's primary performance style, he also plays traditional Creole music.

Bryant released albums titled “Knock, Knock," Git It On, Git It On, "Party Time" "Zydeco Lover” and his latest album “Goin Live” was recently released in February of 2018 and has qualified Bryant as one of the Creole Zydeco nominees in the Zydeco Grammy category.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Photography by Eric Simon

Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series: Lost Bayou Ramblers

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series, kicking off with Lost Bayou Ramblers live in concert on Friday, June 2, 2023, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street).

About Lost Bayou Ramblers

The Grammy award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers’ evolution as a perversely progressive band rooted in Cajun traditions continues to excite, challenge, and redefine both genre expectations as well as cultural preconceptions. Founded in 1999 by brothers Andre and Louis Michot, the last 5 years have brought LBR a feature on Jack White’s American Epic, score contributions to the Oscar nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, a Grammy award for their latest studio album "Kalenda" and tours with Pogues’ founders Spider Stacy and Cait O’Riordan, and Violent Femmes. As the band continues to explore collaborations with artists worldwide both on stage and in the studio, the Ramblers have collaborated with Scarlett Johansson, Dr. John, Leyla McCalla, Nora Arnezeder, Gordon Gano, Spider Stacy, Rickie Lee Jones, Ani DiFranco, to name a few. With years of sold-out the shows in New Orleans and abroad, Lost Bayou Ramblers were named Big Easy Awards’ Entertainers of the Year in 2019, and 2021 brought features in Rolling Stone magazine, National Geographic, and The New Yorker.

Lost Bayou Ramblers stands at the crosscurrents of Louisiana culture by inhabiting the gray area between Cajun and Creole, convention and innovation, mystery and a revelation, experimenting and growing the show to what it's become today: an eclectic mix of modern sounds and rhythms with ancient Cajun melodies and lyrics. World Café says “The Grammy-winning group plays a revved-up version of Cajun music, shot through with punk energy and psychedelic fuzz.”

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars

are kicking off the 2023 Treme Creole Gumbo Festival and Congo Square Rhythms Festival at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center tonight! Join us for this free festival in Armstrong Park all weekend. Details at jazzandheritage.org/events/congo-square-rhythms-festival.

Chanteuse: Sharon Martin

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

Sharon Martin closes out the Chanteuse 2023 concert series on Saturday, March 11.

About Sharon Martin:

New Orleans soulful R&B, blues and jazz singer Sharon Martin is one of the treasures of the Crescent City. She has been singing professionally since the mid-1980s and has established herself as one of our favorites with a range of styles and emotions that she conveys with ease. Soulful, powerful and joyful one moment, delicate and subdued the next – Sharon draws her audience in with her warm personality. Sharon has performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival for many years and has worked with a “who’s who” of major artists, from Joe Sample and Benny Carter to New Orleans legends Dave Bartholomew and Wilson “Willie T” Turbinton, Walter Payton, Carl LeBlanc and John and Wendell Brunious, and so many other greats locally. Martin has toured from Mexico, to Brazil, to Germany, France, and Tbilisi, Georgia in Europe to Taiwan and to many prefectures north to south on the island of Japan. In 2012, with a reprisal in 2017, she earned rave reviews starring as the late, great Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" at New Orleans’ Juju Bag Café and at The Pontchartrain Landing respectively, where she garnered a nomination as “best actress” in a musical by the Big Easy Awards. She continues to perform regularly at night clubs and special events around the City. Her film credits include “The Club singer in T. D. Jakes’ “Woman Thou Art Loose” and in the 2019 Netflix release of “The Last Laugh” with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase as “The Singer”’ and as herself with her band, “First Take”, in the HBO production, “Treme” (“I Thought I Saw Buddy Bolden”). Sharon. a giver, participates in community events, offering her time and talent. She was honored in 2022 with an Artie Award by the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for her contributions to the culture of New Orleans.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Chanteuse: The Nayo Jones Experience

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

The Nayo Jones Experience performs in the Chanteuse 2023 concert series on Friday, March 10.

About The Nayo Jones Experience:

Nayo Jones (pronounced Nīyō) was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family of musicians and destined to be in show business. As an accomplished jazz musician and music educator, her father William “Doc” Jones groomed and nurtured her natural ability from a very young age. Nayo grew up listening to Jazz standards that proved to be a solid foundation and would later become a signature in her own show.
Accomplished in her own right, Jones is also a classically trained flutist.
Currently Nayo is based in New Orleans, LA where she performs regularly with her band “The Nayo Jones Experience”. In addition to her own show, Ms. Jones also tours alongside New Orleans iconic jazz trumpeter, Kermit Ruffins as a featured vocalist. Recently, she has also joined forces with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra led by Adonis Rose. She will be featured on their upcoming album as well as live performances.

Nayo’s vocal range has been compared to the likes of Natalie Cole, Nancy Wilson, even Whitney Houston. She has been the opening act for legendary George Benson, Chris Botti and more.
Nayo has been on stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, French Quarter Fest and many other Louisiana festivals annually since 2012. She has consistently drawn rave reviews for her performances. Nayo and her band, “The Nayo Jones Experience” has a longstanding residency at the Carousel Lounge located in the historic Hotel Monteleone and The Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
Nayo’s body of work includes her first original album “My Name is Nayo Jones”, a “Holiday Collection”, a compilation project featuring her dad Doc Jones, and her EP simply titled “Nayo”. Jones is excited about her latest project, “The Nayo Jones Experience Live at the Kerr Cultural Center”, which is a live performance recorded at the Kerr Cultural Center in Scottsdale, AZ in celebration of International Jazz Day.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Chanteuse: Ever More Nest

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

About Ever More Nest:

Like the homesteaders of her native Mississippi River Delta, Ever More Nest builds houses of emotion among fields of mercy, forests of fears, and streams of consciousness. These are houses that are lived in, that draw in visitors to comfortable confines with the promise of warmth despite the dust, grit, and dangers of the day.

Rooted in Southern musical traditions and infused with confessional 90s angst, the music of Ever More Nest can likewise lull and rock you right off a front porch. Ever More Nest’s dynamic, homegrown voice—hugged by lush, church-pew harmonies—is complemented by ghostly, effusive guitars, spirited mandolin and banjo, mournful fiddle, and a rhythm section steady as a country train.

Whether in a cinematic crescendo of all-consuming sound or in a quiet soliloquy of only voice and guitar, Ever More Nest allows audiences to wade deep into the waters of their humanness or stay safely ashore, where the rhythm of waves—the steady rock and roll—bring contentedness and joy.

A native of North Louisiana, Ever More Nest’s Kelcy Wilburn (“Kelcy Mae”) was equally influenced by the gospel, country, and blues of her Bible Belt hometown as she was by the emotional rawness of the artists that consumed her generation: Cranberries, Counting Crows, Tori Amos, Radiohead, et al. At 18, she moved to New Orleans, where open-mindedness and acceptance gave her the freedom to be herself and to find her voice. As a student of creative writing, she fostered a love of language evident across her early releases as Kelcy Mae and across Ever More Nest’s debut and sophomore albums.

The Ever More Nest debut, The Place That You Call Home (2018), was nominated for Best Alt-Country Album in the Independent Music Awards and its single, “Major Tom,” named a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition and Unsigned Only Music Competition. Following its release, Wilburn and her cadre of accomplished New Orleans musicians graced a variety of stages across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast United States, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Milwaukee’s Summerfest music festival, and listening rooms across the country.

Inspiration for the band name “Ever More Nest” came from a line in a poem by Mary Ann Samyn, which Wilburn found striking in its ability to evoke both a nostalgia for and discomfort with place. The Place That You Call Home is likewise obsessed with the idea of place and poses the universal question: “Just where do I belong?” According to Folk Radio UK, “The answer is clearly in any discerning Americana CD collection.”

For Ever More Nest’s sophomore album, Out Here Now (forthcoming in August 2022), Wilburn again teamed up with Nashville-based Producer Neilson Hubbard, multi-instrumentalist Will Kimbrough, and bassist Dean Marold. New York native Fats Kaplin was brought in for the album’s emotive fiddle, strings, and pedal steel.

“I’m not done living in the spacious, warm, musical landscape we created on The Place That You Call Home, so it only felt natural to re-enlist Neilson, Will, and Dean for volume two,” says Wilburn.

Featuring songs written both before and during the pandemic, Out Here Now builds upon the immersive sounds and themes of its predecessor with textures, tones, and lyricism that delve deep into what makes us human. Wilburn calls the album a “journey to and celebration of the soul that lends itself well to the active-listeners, dreamers, travelers and seekers.”

The songs of Ever More Nest are brought to life on stage and on tour by a tight-knit family of New Orleans musicians that includes Wilburn’s wife Lucy Cordts (banjo, mandolin), Dave DeCotiis (guitar), Rebecca Crenshaw (violin), Rose Cangelosi (drums), Jeremy Joyce (guitar), Alec Barnes (drums, bass) and Adam Everett (drums).

Photo by Michael Alford

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Chanteuse: The Sarah Quintana Band

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

About The Sarah Quintana Band:

Sarah Quintana is a singer-songwriter from New Orleans with a background rich in jazz, folk and popular music. She is a charming performer, devoted guitarist and her voice is instantly recognizable. Quintana splits her time between the US and France, working alongside Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil, saxophonist Raphael Imbert, touring on her own repertoire with French and American musicians. Quintana is a member of the Pantheatre (Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo) as well as a hatha yoga instructor. In her latest studio recording, Daddy Lies (Independent 2017), Quintana collaborates with Mark Bingham.​

Sarah Quintana grew up in New Orleans where live music is ingrained in many aspects of daily life. In 2010 she went from singing on the streets of Provence with a traveling circus, to the stages of the Jazz and Heritage Festival and later, the Lincoln Center for Mid-Summer Swing with The New Orleans Moonshiners. In 2012, Quintana was awarded an artist residency at A Studio in the Woods where she composed "Miss River," music with water.

Learn more about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation at www.jazzandheritage.org

Chanteuse: Erica Falls

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

Erica Falls performs in the Chanteuse 2023 concert series on Saturday, February 25.

Tickets are $10, available here: https://ericachanteuse.eventbrite.com

Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm. Seating is limited, so please register in advance. All proceeds from this concert series directly support efforts of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Chanteuse will be livestreamed: jazzandheritage.org/live

Chanteuse 2023 Schedule:

Friday, February 24 - LuLu & the Broadsides
Saturday, February 25 - Erica Falls
Friday, March 3 - The Sarah Quintana Band
Saturday, March 4 - Ever More Nest
Friday, March 10 - The Nayo Jones Experience
Saturday, March 11 - Sharon Martin

About Erica Falls:

Soul singer and songwriter Erica Falls credits her unique vintage sound to her childhood growing up in New Orleans’ 9th Ward, where her parents introduced her to Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, and Whitney Houston. Whether on stage or in the studio, she channels a sassy, soulful tone that recalls an earlier era. But Erica cautions her fans: “Vintage soul is not about bringing the listener back to a time of authentic music, it’s about reminding them that it never went anywhere,” she says.
Erica’s latest project re-released album 2018, HomeGrown, that she co-produced showcased her vocals, arranging, songwriting talent, and introduced her to a wider audience in the world of neo-soul. Throughout her career, Erica has recorded and performed with icons including Grammy-winner Allen Toussaint, Sting, No Doubt, Joe Sample, Dr. John, Jennifer Hudson, and John Fogerty, among others. In 2013, she was hand-picked by Lee Daniels to star in the lead singing role of the award-winning film Lee Daniels The Butler.

Her show-stopping performances did not go unnoticed; Offbeat Magazine nominated Erica twice for Best Female Vocalist in which she won in 2017 and 2019. She was also nominated for Best R&B Artist and Best R&B Album.

Erica has toured nationally with renowned New Orleans funk band Galactic as their lead vocalist for the last 5 years, but she made the decision to leave that position and nurture her solo career. Currently, Erica is working on new highly anticipated music and she's excited to get it out to the world. Stay tuned because the best is yet to come from this Nola Hummingbird!

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.

For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org

Chanteuse: Lulu & The Broadsides

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music, a live concert series featuring outstanding women vocalists, at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart Street.

Lulu & The Broadsides kick off the 2023 Chanteuse concert series on Friday, February 24.
Tickets are $10, available here: https://luluchanteuse.eventbrite.com

Doors open at 7pm and the concert begins promptly at 8pm. Seating is limited, so please register in advance. All proceeds from this concert series directly support efforts of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Chanteuse will be livestreamed: jazzandheritage.org/live

Chanteuse 2023 Schedule:
Friday, February 24 - LuLu & the Broadsides
Saturday, February 25 - Erica Falls
Friday, March 3 - The Sarah Quintana Band
Saturday, March 4 - Ever More Nest
Friday, March 10 - The Nayo Jones Experience
Saturday, March 11 - Sharon Martin

About Lulu & The Broadsides:

Over the past two decades, internationally lauded “songwriter’s songwriter” Dayna Kurtz has intermittently dived into her crate digger’s curated repertoire of largely obscure soul and R&B gems, as well as penned originals designed to sound as though they’d been unearthed from the same record hound’s favorite crypt, all caressed with the rich, rough and smoky vocals the Washington Post once described as a “…deep hued garnet of lifeblood and beauty.” Now living in New Orleans, she seems to have found the natural habitat in which she can finally double down on her secret calling, fronting Lulu and the Broadsides.

About the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation:

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Concert Series is a program of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest, and other raised funds, for year-round programs in education, economic development and cultural enrichment.
For more on what we do, please visit us online at jazzandheritage.org