Jazz Fest Media Kit

2007 Jazz Fest Media Kit  click here

MUSIC: Second Time is a Charmer

A music writer re-visits New Orleans

Expanded Distribution, Improves Advertising Results in Program

If your business wants to reach the thousands of people that attend Jazz Fest and the thousands more throughout Greater New Orleans then you need to be a part of the only and Official Magazine of Jazz Fest.  Renaissance Publishing will use its vast network of News Stands to expand the...

MUSIC: STIRRINGS FROM MADELEINE PEYROUX

Madeleine Peyroux has a voice of silk and honey with echoes of Billie Holiday that make you catch your breath. She spent a stretch in New Orleans with a band several years ago, and her set at the pre-Katrina Jazz Fest was a showstopper – one to bestir the masses to visit the nearest Starbucks,...

MUSIC: Seasoned Greetings with GREGG STAFFORD

By the second week of December I start rummaging through the stacks of CDs not shelved – the ones stored in a cabinet under the bookcase, a knee-high closet so stuffed that I recoil from the loss of order. The books are organized for swift, as-needed selection. The CDs are half-way there, so many...

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JAZZ NIGHT IN BYWATER

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MEET THE ZOZO SISTERS

Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy�s Adieu False Heart

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Paul Soniat sings the Katrina blues

Paul Soniat, who happens to live on the Uptown Street that bears his name, is a pianist and songwriter grappling with the world remade by Katrina. In his new CD, Below the Waterline, Soniat lays it on with “Red Eyes,” a song from the soul of the...

MUSIC: Norwegian Seamen’s Church … and jazz

On a steamy May morning (before coffee) my phone delivered a producer from CNN: Can you do a satellite interview about the priest in Rome the pope just removed? My last book exposed that reprobate priest. You bet I said yes. We need you downtown in forty-five minutes. I, uh, have to take a bath....