Margie Perez is a talented singer, songwriter, and bandleader whose innate kindness and love for music inflects every performance. Perez offers a versatile blend of Latin, blues, and contemporary pop tunes in her repertoire, all shaded with New Orleans rhythmic energy. Pere... Read more

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Anaïs St. John was raised in a musical household and trained as an opera singer, singing mezzo-soprano with the New Orleans Opera. She branched out as a solo artist, blending jazz, blues, and R & B, inspired by iconic singers like Eartha Kitt and Lola Falana, and hometown h... Read more

Mem Shannon came up through the blues scene via a 15-year career as a New Orleans cab driver, and his 1996 breakthrough album, “A Cabdriver’s Blues,” put the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter firmly on the musical map. Television and national press gave him a wide buzz, a... Read more

Backed by his band, Funky Nation, Sammie “Big Sam” Williams wields his trombone with a funk-driven, energetic authority that delights audiences from Frenchmen Street to France. Raised in the uptown Twelfth Ward and New Orleans East, an adolescent Williams ended up in the sc... Read more

John Mooney embodies the direct connection between today and the music of the blues’ founding fathers: Professor Longhair, and the Mississippi Delta bluesman Son House, who mentored a teenaged Mooney and fostered his driving slide style and vocal sound. Mooney was born in... Read more

Sam Price is a very busy bassist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader. Although he tours and performs with the very active Honey Island Swamp Band and with OTRA!, he also fronts his own combo, Sam Price and the True Believers, as an outlet for his original tunes. The True Be... Read more

The Honey Island Swamp Band brings together elements of funk, blues, rock, reggae, and hot, greasy Southern swamp in a unique, danceable, compelling sound that has been described as “Bayou Americana.” Honey Island was founded in San Francisco by refugee New Orleans musician... Read more

Dave Malone is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the New Orleans Radiators, which has laid down their own brand of funky-rock-blues for over 45 years, touring relentlessly across the country. Malone was raised in Edgard, Louisiana, and had his life changed whe... Read more