The Grammy Awards are Feb. 12, but the local music community will honor its own Thursday (Jan. 19) during OffBeat magazine’s 2017 Best of the Beat Awards at Generations Hall. Founded 22 years ago by ...
Johnny Vidacovich, the acclaimed New Orleans-born jazz drummer, is set to perform at the Maple Leaf Bar alongside Oscar Rossignoli and Max Moran on June 1 at 8 p.m. Vidacovich, best known as a member ...
The jazz tradition is often one featuring drummers leading bands. Gene Krupa headlined a group known by his name as have jazz greats Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones and the list goes on. Appearing ...
With a resume that includes Professor Longhair and over two decades with modern jazz ensemble Astral Project, Johnny Vidacovich ranks among New Orleans' most celebrated and distinctive drummers. But ...
Johnny's tool kit is hundreds of feet deep and he can dig deep, into that kit and be whatever he's needed to be at any time. Everybody in New Orleans knows how great a drummer Johnny Vidacovich is. It ...
As excited as audience members were to hear the Brown Jazz Band perform jazz classics during its Friday night concert, a performance by Johnny Vidacovich - a New Orleans-based drummer who has played ...
Living in New Orleans means getting to take everything and nothing for granted. It's an axiom perhaps best exemplified in music by Johnny Vidacovich, our do-everything, play-everywhere percussionist ...
The 14th annual Voodoo Music & Arts Experience happens from October 26 – 28 at City Park in New Orleans. Among the 70+ acts at this year’s fest are Jack White, Green Day, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, ...
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