Friday, October 28, 2011

The Preservation Hall Tent at New Orleans' Voodoo Experience!



Now in it's 6th year, Preservation Hall and Rehage Entertainment present The Preservation Hall Tent at the 2011 Voodoo Experience!  Here's the lineup.  Hope to see you here!


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28:
ERNIE VINCENT AND THE TOP NOTES
BEAUSOLEIL W/ DR. MICHAEL WHITE
MEMBERS OF MORPHINE WITH JEREMY LYONS
KORA KONNECTION FEAT. MORIKEBA KOUYATE & THIERNO DIOUBATE
HIGH GROUND DRIFTERS BLUEGRASS BAND

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29:
Mynameisjohnmichael
ILLUMINASTI TRIO FEAT. MIKE DILLON, JAMES SINGLETON, SKERIK, & BRIAN COOGAN
TOMMY MALONE AND THE HARD HEADS
GORDON GANO OF VIOLENT FEMMES WITH LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS
CHRIS THOMAS KING
TREME BRASS BAND
TAO SEEGER BRASS BAND

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30:
MA MAISON WITH THE TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT & PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
RAY DAVIES
AMERICAN LEGACIES: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND WITH DEL MCCOURY BAND
NEW ORLEANS KLEZMER ALLSTARS
GLEN DAVID ANDREWS
LEO JACKSON AND THE MELODY CLOUDS

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"Preservation Hall at 50" Exhibit at New Orleans Old U.S. Mint!

NEW EXHIBITION AT NEW ORLEANS' OLD U.S. MINT CELEBRATES
PRESERVATION HALL’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY   

The Louisiana State Museum launches a major exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Preservation Hall on November 4 at the Old U.S. Mint.
Co-curated by Preservation Hall and the Museum, Preservation Hall at 50 will tell the story of this New Orleans music landmark from the early 1960s to the present through artifacts, archival and contemporary photographs, film and audio clips, interviews and oral histories.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rebirth Brass Band, The Preservation Hall All-Stars ,The Roots of Music, and The Preservation Hall Junior Jazz & Heritage Brass Band will perform on Friday evening, November 4 as part of a music-filled grand opening benefitting the Louisiana Museum Foundation, the Museum’s non-profit support organization. More than 500 guests are expected. Tickets are $50 advance and $60 on the day of event  and available through the Louisiana Museum Foundation at 504.558.0493.
Preservation Hall at 50 will open for public viewing on Saturday, November 5 at 10 a.m. and will run through 2012.

Highlights include large color images of today’s Preservation Hall musicians by art photographer Shannon Brinkman matched with oral histories recorded by radio documentarian Eve Abrams. Brinkman and Abrams are co-authors of Preservation Hall, published in March by LSU Press.

Adding wider historical context, the Museum will display iconic objects from its collection – including Louis Armstrong’s first cornet – and instruments played by Preservation Hall jazz greats such as clarinetist George Lewis and bassist Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau.
Also represented are works by two visionary artists associated with Preservation Hall, French Quarter painter Noel Rockmore (1928-1995) and folk artist Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980).

The Preservation Hall exhibition is part of ambitious long-range plans to establish the Old U.S. Mint as a center for live music and music history.  
In a joint project of the Museum and the U.S. National Park Service, a new $4-million performance space will open on the Mint’s third floor on November 12. The Museum will use the space for evening lectures, solo and small group concerts and special events, while the National Park Service will use it for daytime programming for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park.
 The Museum also plans to install a new permanent exhibition exploring Louisiana’s rich musical heritage in late 2013.  

    

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

"Reminder - PHJB and Del McCoury Band on Austin City Limits TV Show to Air Soon!"

Dont' forget, on October 29th, to tune into PBS for PHJB and Del McCoury Band on Austin City Limits TV Show.  For those of you in New Orleans, tune in to WLAE at 8:00pm.  For those of you not in New Orleans click HERE to find out when it airs on your local PBS affiliate.


Friday, October 21, 2011

St. Cecilia's Asylum Chorus to debut All-Star Lineup at Preservation Hall: Sunday, November 6 @ 11am





ST. CECILIA’S ASYLUM CHORUS
TO DEBUT ALL-STAR LINEUP AT PRESERVATION HALL
WITH SUNDAY MORNING PROGRAM OF
TRADITIONAL SOUTHERN SPIRITUALS
& GULF COAST RESTORATION OUTREACH

Preservation Hall:  Sunday, November 6 @ 11am:
Representing a broad cross-section of New Orleans’ ever-evolving music scene, St. Cecilia’s Asylum Chorus is a ten-piece vocal group whose membership includes Hannah Krieger-Benson (The Local Skank), Lucas Davenport (The New Orleans Bingo! Show), Helen Gillet (Wazozo!), Clint Maedgen (PHJB, TNOBS), Alexandra Scott (Hi-Fi Sky), Ashley Shabankareh (The Local Skank), Amy Trail (The Amy Trail Band, Pat O' Brien's Piano Bar), Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (The Mammals), Tim Robertson (Amanda Shaw and The Cute Guys), and Michael Patrick Welch (The White Bitch). The chorus will be backed by a four-piece band led by Marc Stone (Marc Stone Band, Rockin' Dopsie) on guitar and featuring Keith Hajjar (Egg Yolk Jubilee, TNOBS) on drums.  Please join us for this very special morning program featuring an emphasis on traditional Southern spiritual music on Sunday, November 6 at 11:00am. 

Also present for these very special proceedings will be representatives from the Gulf Restoration Network. Gulf Restoration Network is the only environmental advocacy group with an exclusive focus on the Gulf of Mexico.  For 17 years GRN has worked to unite and empower people to protect and restore the health of the Gulf region for future generations.  In the wake of last year's BP drilling disaster, GRN has been dedicated to exposing the impacts of the disaster, holding BP and the government accountable, and ensuring that the lessons of the disaster are learned and acted upon.  Currently, GRN is leading an initiative to allocate BP's Clean Water Act fines to restore the coastal wetlands of the Mississippi River delta which are turning into open water at the rate of a football field every hour, threatening the ecosystem we rely on for our fisheries and our natural storm defenses.

Advance tickets are available at www.preservationhall.com/tickets.

PRESS CONTACT / J. LLOYD MILLER / LLOYD@PRESERVATIONHALL.COM

"Preservation Hall at 50." A glimpse inside these historic exhibitions, celebrating the 50th year anniversary of Preservation Hall


Preservation Hall, the venerable performance space for traditional New Orleans Jazz on St. Peter Street in the heart of the French Quarter, marks a half-century in operation in 2011.  Two museums in the city are paying homage with commemorative exhibitions.  The Ogden Museum of Art recently closed Preservation Hall at 50, and the Louisiana State Museum will open a separate exhibition under the same title on November 4th (see pages 54-57 for more information).  Louisiana Cultural Vistas presents here a selection of paintings, photographs, and artifacts from these exhibitions.  -Editors Note (Louisiana Cultural Vistas)

 "Preservation Hall inspires.  The building.  The music.  The musicians.  For years, it has been a gathering place for writers, poets, actors, painters, singers, dancers, photographers, chefs, composers....insiders and outsiders."
- Ben Jaffe


Friday, October 14, 2011

New Orleans Film Festival to feature "Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale" by Danny Clinch at the Prytania Theater in New Orleans on Monday October 17th


Come on out New Orleans to this very special screening of "Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale."  The film is part of the 2011 New Orleans Film Festival and will be screened 7:30pm Monday October 17th at the Prytania Theatre (5339 Prytania Street) in New Orleans.  Directed by Danny Clinch and produced by Ben Jaffe, this 69 minute documentary follows every element leading up to and included the amazing performance at Preservation Hall with My Morning Jacket.



Thursday, October 13, 2011

Preservation Hall Jazz Band featured in My Morning Jacket Video from Boing Boing

This video is a fantastic glimpse into My Morning Jackets'  June 24th performance from historic Fox Theatre in Oakland California. Keep your eyes peeled at the 17:00 mark, as we join this incredible band on stage.  Video directed  by Scott Compton (Boing Boing Video)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Cityview article by Michael Swanger "Jaffe and Preservation Hall Jazz Band perpetuate spirit of New Orleans Jazz"


Fifty years ago, Allan and Sandra Jaffe founded Preservation Hall in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter in an attempt to preserve and celebrate New Orleans jazz music and its musicians. They intended to stay in the Big Easy during the civil rights movement of the 1960s before moving on, but fell in love with the city and never left.
     Fifty years later, their 40-year-old son and tuba player, Ben Jaffe, serves as director of the venerable musical institution and its touring Preservation Hall Jazz Band (PHJB), which marches into town Friday for a concert at Drake University. Jaffe, a second generation New Orleanian, is a prime example of how fully integrated music is in the culture, communities and families of New Orleans. In short, it's in his blood.
      "Music in New Orleans isn't something separated; it's part of our church services, funeral processions and carnival celebrations. It's something you either are or you are not," said Jaffe over the telephone from his office at Preservation Hall, which first opened its doors in 1961.

Jaffe, who joined the touring PHJB the day after he graduated from Oberlin College in 1993, said that, regardless of his parents' affiliation with the New Orleans music scene, he would have become a musician. Yet it is apparent that his deep reverence and consciousness of PHJB's greatest attributes is the result of his upbringing and environment.


READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Photos from the outreach program/concert in South Milwaukee, WI

On September 26th, we had the privilege to perform for and help teach local area students to further their interests in New Orleans Jazz.  It was such a delight to be able to share our knowledge of the music with such eager students.  A special thanks to Alex Clark for taking these incredible pictures.