Venue: Ellis Marsalis and Jason Marsalis at the 2014 Best of the Beat Awards, Generations Hall, January 22, 2015. Photo by Willow Haley
Snug Harbor will reopen June 4 with a tribute to Ellis Marsalis
Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro, the venerable restaurant and jazz club a at 626 Frenchmen Street, will reopen its performance space on Friday, June 4, with a tribute to Ellis Marsalis performed by his son, Jason Marsalis. The elder Marsalis held a 30-year gig at the club before retiring in December 2019. He died at age 85 on April 1, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19.
Long respected as a listening room where respectful jazz aficionados gather to be entranced by musicians in an cozy setting, the performance space has been closed since March 2020 when pandemic restrictions forced all live-music venues in New Orleans to shutter their doors. Music clubs along Frenchmen Street have gradually reopened since the City of New Orleans began to ease crowd restrictions in mid-March, but S
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Artisound Christmas Spectacular Livestreams Sunday, December 13
Artisound Productions, housed in Studio 3OneOne6, will livestream a Christmas spectacular featuring Gabrielle Cavassa, Joshua Starkman, Shea Pierre, and Flighteous.
Audio engineer, Artisound co-owner, and event producer Keenan McRae says, “This year has been an especially tough one all the way around. Although it’s the most difficult climate we’ve seen as a nation in a while, I have been blessed by the New Orleans music community who has kept me working throughout this time. My original forecast when covid hit was that myself or my company was not going to make it. It is truly due to the deep rooted community values and traditions that the New Orleans music industry is not only still alive but growing.