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...