Music Features
WGLT has always been devoted to music. We love to feature interviews with musicians, visits to record stores, talking about who s rising in the local music scene and telling you about national acts headed our way.
The Tangents, Tiffany Riech and Casey Cantrall, are making music this Valentine s Day weekend. Bonjour, my music friends, and welcome to the year when Mardi Gras nearly coincides with Valentine s Day. We are celebrating in a somewhat different fashion in 2021, but things are looking up. There is hope at the end of the tunnel, as a friend prone to beautifully mixing metaphors said the other day. Even with some loosening up happening in the live music world both in town and around the world, restrictions are still in place at most Mardi Gras celebrations. The info page at MardiGrasNewOrleans.com clearly states that the worldwide-recognized home of the big party will not be having parades or street celebrations in 2021. In Soulard, the Saint Louis neighborhood that hosts the next best Mardi Gras gathering in the country, the hoopla is on hiatus as well. On the STLMardiGras.org site, there s a specific section just for rumors, and it
Tom Beverly and Geoff Ryan play Hill Prairie Winery this Saturday evening. Look out folks, here comes the end of January in the new year of 2021, on the move and in the groove, ready to slide on from the past, pop through to the present and delve out into the future. And wouldn t you know it, there are actually live performances to speak of, talk about, discuss and present to you as choices. Of course, one choice may be to wait a while for the COVID factor to diminish, another perhaps is to jump right into going out, but either way, please be careful, stay safe and think about others.