Lynn Drury at Ogden After Hours

Lynn Drury has been an integral part of the New Orleans music scene for over 15 years.  In 2015 she was nominated “Songwriter of the Year” from Offbeat Magazine and Best Female Performer by Gambit Weekly. She has been featured at the Jazz & Heritage Festival for over 10 years. She plays a style called...

Andrew Duhon at Ogden After Hours

It has been nearly 3 years since New Orleans songwriter, Andrew Duhon has released an album. His latest, ‘The Moorings’ was nominated for a Grammy for ‘Best Engineered Album’ in 2014. Though Duhon’s immediate deflection is that he did not engineer the album, its an impressive accolade for an independent release, the only independently released...

Seva Venet at Ogden After Hours

Seva Venet’s latest project “Misieu Bainjo: a Celebration of the Banjo in New Orleans” features the compositions of many New Orleans banjo legends including Danny Barker, Narvin Kimball, and Creole George Guesnon.  Venet builds upon his experience in working with many contemporary traditional jazz legends including Tuba Fats, Treme Brass Band Lionel Ferbos, Lars Edegran,...

Holly Guertin Artist Spotlight Opening Reception

Join the Center for Southern Craft and Design at the Ogden Museum as we celebrate the opening of the Artist Spotlight: Holly Guertin, on view from July 6 – August 20, 2017. The reception will take place during our regularly scheduled Ogden After Hours from 6 to 8pm, featuring music by Seva Venet.

Closing Reception Waltzing the Muse: The Paintings of James Michalopoulos

Join us for this special Ogden After Hours as we mark the close of the exhibition, Waltzing the Muse: The Paintings of James Michalopoulos. Presenting sponsors: Henry and Pat Shane. Enjoy Opera on Tap, a rum tasting from Old New Orleans Rum, Ya-Ka-Mein by Ms. Linda and a gallery tour + talk by the Ogden...

Opera On Tap at Ogden After Hours

Join soprano Kathleen Halm Simmons, mezzo-soprano Phyllis Treigle, tenor Travis Richter and collaborative pianist Todd Simmons for an Ogden After Hours Fête. This festive and flirtatious New Orleans Opera Preview Concert, entitled Opéra Nouvelle: from Verismo to Offenbach will feature music from the first two mainstage productions at New Orleans Opera – Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (October 6 and October 8,...

Renshaw Davies at Ogden After Hours

Nominated by Offbeat Magazine for best emerging artist, Renshaw Davies is an indie pop duo based in New Orleans, comprised of John Renshaw (vocals, guitar) and Emily Davies (vocals, keys, percussion). They draw influences from Beach House, Beck, Father John Misty, Fleetwood Mac, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Jeff Lynn, and Bob Dylan. A native...

Paul Sanchez at Ogden After Hours

Fans may know native New Orleanian Paul Sanchez as a founding member of the rock band Cowboy Mouth, with whom he has 11 albums; for his role in the HBO series Treme where he played himself; or as the creative force behind the musical Nine Lives, a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Dan Baum. Nine Lives follows the lives...

Troy Sawyer at Ogden After Hours

Troy Sawyer, winner of the Outstanding Millennial award for Music presented by Offbeat Magazine, is an accomplished trumpeter, composer, and educator from New Orleans. Sawyer comes from a line of great musicians and is proud to continue the legacy of his great grandfather Louis D. James, who played with Louis Armstrong and co-wrote songs with the...