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4 items by Keith Spera

  • Fats Domino Returns to New Orleans Stage for First Post-Katrina Concert

    Fats Domino Returns to New Orleans Stage for First Post-Katrina Concert | ARTICLE

    Despite sixty-plus years in the business, New Orleans R&B icon Fats Domino is an exceptionally reluctant, nervous performer. His anxiety prior to closing the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was such that he canceled his...

    May 21, 2007 12:28 PM ET
  • New Orleans Live Music Is Once Again Packing the Clubs

    New Orleans Live Music Is Once Again Packing the Clubs | ARTICLE

    Most Tuesday nights for sixteen years, the Rebirth Brass Band has funked up New Orleans' Maple Leaf Bar, an ancient, low-slung tavern in the Carrollton neighborhood with pressed tin walls and two bare bulbs above a tiny...

    September 1, 2006 1:37 PM ET
  • Jazz Fest Swings Again After Katrina

    Jazz Fest Swings Again After Katrina | ARTICLE

    Jimmy Buffett is usually all smiles onstage. But he nearly broke down during "City of New Orleans," his opener at the New Orleans...

    June 15, 2006 2:05 PM ET
  • Voodoo Fest Comes Home to New Orleans

    Voodoo Fest Comes Home to New Orleans | ARTICLE

    Midway through New Orleans' first major post-Katrina concert – October 29th's Voodoo Music Experience, featuring Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone...

    December 1, 2005 5:10 PM ET