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Gambits picks for opening day at Jazz Fest 2024.

Father Ron Clingenpeel is both a genuine clergyman (a retired Episcopal priest) and a genuine scholar of folk music; he hosts a folk show

From October through March, the Freret Market brings art and food vendors and live music to a corner just off Napoleon Avenue. In late March, it balloons into a street

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New Orleans-based Father Ron and Friends, a folk/Americana band, are celebrating The Great American Folk Songbook with a 4 p.m. January 21 "Forever The Seasons" [Louisiana Red Hot Records] CD listening party at Buffa’s Back Room, featuring Gina Forsyth, Andre Bohren, Nigel Burgeois, and band members Barbara Smith-Davis, David Schwartz, Robert Eustis, and Max Valentino.

It’s a busy week for live entertainment, with three events at the Smoothie King Center and a bustling schedule at the clubs.

Gambit’s guide to festivals, music, comedy, theater, dance and more in New Orleans and beyond.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

The Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., is holding a benefit concert and blood drive Saturday (May 28) in support of Joe Cooper, who was shot four times while protecting his wife and his home in Gentilly. The Emergency Medical Service gave him a blood transfusion on the way to University Medical Center, which helped […]

Such a gathering wasn’t possible this holiday season, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But not having “Oh Crap, It’s Christmas!” this year, of all years, “was too grim to contemplate,” Davis said recently. “It’s been such a miserable year. Everybody has had to compromise so much and to manage their expectations about so much.” So Davis and Perrine recorded a sequel to the album that originally inspired the show. “Oh Crap, It’s Christmas!...