Later this month, Jon Batiste will release a new album of solo piano compositions, Beethoven Blues, via Verve/Interscope. The Grammy and Oscar-winning musician’s new single, “5th Symphony in Congo ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — By New Orleans standards, the Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival is relatively young, reaching its sixth year this month. But the music and culture that the two-day event ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The 2025 Congo Square ...

The Uptown Ruler: Cyril Neville: Friday, May 3, Congo Square Stage, 2:40p If you see Cyril Neville perform this year, you’ll probably… – Brett Milano Allman-Betts Band Sunday, April 28, Allison Miner ...

Members of The Soul Rebels still get people in New Orleans bringing up their show with Nas at the 2017 Jazz Fest, says trumpeter Marcus Hubbard. That year, the New Orleans band collaborated with the ...

“At least we’ve got this place,” says Luther Gray, founder of the Congo Square Foundation, and leader of the dance and music ensemble, Bamboula 2000. “It’s a place we can all claim as ours.” Congo ...

The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in the punishing afternoon heat for food and free music at Congo Square, a ...

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