Hard Living In The Big Easy: Housing Costs Push Musicians Out Of New Orleans

“Jazz vocalist John Boutté feels he can no longer afford to live in his hometown of New Orleans. He’s not alone. Rising housing costs are pushing many musicians and service workers — the backbone of New Orleans’ tourism economy — further and further outside the city limits. This suburbanization of the working class poses more…

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Broadway comes to Frenchmen Street for HBO filming of ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’

As the Tony Awards have already recognized, Audra McDonald is stunning in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” which re-creates a late-1950s performance by Billie Holiday at a small Philadelphia club. Thursday (Dec. 18) afternoon in the former Café Brasil, an audience of about 50 – some privately invited, some paid actors – got…

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