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Louisiana Music Factory is an independent record and CD store located on Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Its specialty is local music, and is well-known among music aficionados around the world. Its rich inventory of New Orleans and Louisiana music include CDs and vinyl of traditional jazz, blues ...
WWOZ (90.7 FM) is a non-profit community-supported radio station in New Orleans.It is owned by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.The station specializes in music from or relating to the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of Louisiana.
The Wild Tchoupitoulas were originally a group of Mardi Gras Indians formed in the early 1970s by George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry. Landry, with his self-identified Choctaw heritage, [1] had been an active performer in the Mardi Gras Indian styling for a number of years.
ARNB.ORG, Cajun and Zydeco music event schedules for the world; Louisiana festivals calendar at nola.com; Clarence's Louisiana festivals guide at cajunradio.org; New Orleans and Louisiana festivals; Lafayette's Own Boudin Cook-Off
Don "Moose" Jamison Heritage School of Music – The School of Music is the Foundation's unique cultural education program which began in 1990 as an after-school program. Initially, the school was tuition-free and taught only a few students on the campus of Southern University at New Orleans .
Two cities, two festivals, and three days of music, food and culture are on tap with Rougarou and Acadia Music Fest this weekend in Houma and Thibodaux. Both festivals are known for drawing crowds ...
The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues , and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
BeauSoleil is one of a few groups performing traditional Louisiana music to win a Grammy Award. L'Amour Ou La Folie (Love Or Folly), recorded in 1996 and released on Rhino Records, earned the 1997 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.