Born in McComb, Mississippi in 1940, Fread E. Martin grew up playing alongside his blues guitar picking father Jessie James Martin, then rode the rails to New Orleans during the early 1950s where he crossed paths with itinerant South Louisiana blues men such as “Polka-Dot” Slim and “Boogie” Bill Webb, whose unique country-cum-urban styles would...

Blending genres, voices and influences, The Asylum Chorus brings its unique roots-soul music to venues large and small. Featuring seven vocalists and a full backing band, Asylum Chorus resonates with audiences in unique ways. Their complex vocal harmonies merge with modern arrangements, to drive the music to higher places. In every performance, the Chorus showcases...

Naked On The Floor is the flagship group of New Orleans based composer, Jonathan Freilich.  Freilich has developed a language for structuring improvisations through the juxtaposition of anomalous musical information occurring almost as non-sequiturs amidst the prevailing familiar information. Freilich has worked as a sideman and a leader for some of New Orleans most notable...

2013 winner of the Outstanding Millennial Award for Music presented by Offbeat Magazine, Troy Sawyer is an accomplished trumpeter, composer and educator from New Orleans. Sawyer is continuing the legacy of his great grandfather, Louis James, who played strings in various bands with Louis Armstrong and co-wrote songs with Buddy Bolden. After picking up the...

Lynn Drury has been performing, in one arena or another, her entire life. At the ripe old age of five she won a 4-H state competition in Mississippi in pole bending. If you don’t know what pole bending is, it’s a little like barrel racing, Lynn says. That’s horse talk. In a word, rodeos. Once...

Marla Dixon learned to play trumpet in high school, but after an odd (albeit fun) year with a British Drum Corps band, she stopped making music. Seven years later, she wandered into exactly the right Toronto dive bar at precisely the right time and heard Kid Bastien's Happy Pals playing the music she'd always loved,...

It's the Ogden Museum's 15th Birthday and Member Appreciation Night! Help us celebrate with a Library Show with The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars! The Klezmer All Stars are entering their 27th year as an active performing ensemble. In these times when folk music has meant rigidly sticking to a clichéd format, or collecting hackneyed stylistic...

Jon Dee Graham is coming through town and making a stop at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He's bringing his friend Ben de la Cour who will be doing a short set to open the show. Jon Dee Graham is a guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas. A former member of the True Believers with...

Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes rocks the house all the time every time! This classically trained New Orleans-based band delivers a smorgasbord of musical genres every time they hit the stage. JSDN defy easy categorization, their irreverent funk is cut with rock riffs, a Gypsy/Klezmer flare, a Latin tinge courtesy of a hard hitting horn...