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New Orleans soul singer, Jean Knight, has passed at 80 years old. A cause of death has not been revealed.

Raise a glass to The Ella Project charity at The Rusty Nail. Twenty percent of bar tabs go to providing pro bono legal service to musicians.

An NEA grant of $25,000 will allow The Ella Project to expand its Crescendo program that aids new and veteran artists in the music industry.

OffBeat Magazine Ella Project Receives $25k Grant The Ella Project has been approved for $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support their pro bono legal services and our Music Business Intensive workshop series. This project will provide pro bono legal services to at least 200 moderate-income Louisiana artists in the matters of copyright, trademark, licensing, contract creation, and for-profit and nonprofit incorporation, and other legal matters. This grant additionally supports their seven-week Music Business Intensive workshop series, which will launch in Fall 2021. Spearheaded by El...

Tipitina’s in 2013 Ride by the yellow corner building at Napoleon and Tchoupitoulas these days, and you see a line of people spread out on the sidewalk to order coffee at a to-go window. Yes, coffee. Since 1977, this has been the location of the iconic New Orleans’ music club, Tipitina’s. Originally intended to showcase the life’s work of Professor “Fess” Longhair, born Henry Roeland Byrd in 1918, at the end of his career, it quickly grew into one of the most beloved music venues in the city. It has survived changing ownership and changing musical climates, as well as hurricanes, ...