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Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny ‘Get Happy Together’ This is the kind of New Orleans music that makes a person smile and tap one’s feet when a song is happy and moan with a knowing smile when it’s sad. Lets Get Happy Together Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny Stony Plain 7 May 2021 Maria Muldaur has done more than any other contemporary artist to keep the music of early 20th century jazz and blues women alive. She has recorded full-length albums dedicated to individual performers such as Blue...

OffBeat Magazine I’m not sure if New Orleans has reached peak neo-trad yet, but each new release I hear indicates that the music created a century ago still offers a lot for younger musicians to explore. The Secret Six is a side project led by bassist John Joyce of the Smoking Time Jazz Club. The album features members of that project as well as vocalist Meschiya Lake and other musicians from the tightly-knit Frenchmen Street scene. Given the extremely limited parameters of the pandemic, this...

Maria Muldaur teams up with Tuba Skinny for vintage jazz and blues album Six-time Grammy nominee Maria Muldaur, who’s been dubbed “The First Lady of Roots Music” for previous albums touching on her wide-ranging influences from blues, country, folk, jazz and even jug band music, continues her exploration of the great American roots music songbook. On her latest excursion, this time into the vintage jazz and blues sounds of the 1920s/’30s, Maria teams up with acclaimed New Orleans street ...