With Fat Tuesday around the corner, this week's blues show (Sat, 2/25 at 11pm) is full of toe-tappin', soul reviving music from New Orleans. You'll hear from local piano legend , Beau Jocque, the Jambalaya Cajun Band, and a favorite...Mr. Zachary Richard. The second set starts off with the , then , , and Louis Armstrong. And the last set features the , Professor Longhair, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, , and Johnny Adams.
Ricky Nye's playing with Ben Levin at Mardi Gras on Madison on Fat Tuesday from 6:30-9pm...1524 Madison Road. His album, , is the one I played a song from.
And, here's a to the poetry of Zachary Richard who bumped into Alan Ginsberg in New Orleans in 1968 and got his poetry writing career started.
runs from April 28th through May 7th. A number of these musicians in this show will be featured there.
This year, Jazz Fest honors Over 150 Cuban artists have been invited.