UPDATE: NO Music Online Event Schedule Change

Due to inclement weather in NO area today and tomorrow, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra concert featuring Kermit Ruffins has been moved to Sunday Night (vs tomorrow Saturday). It is a free concert and is supposed to be webcast LIVE (audio only) via the LPO.com website. 

This change in schedule actually works for me b/c I am heading up to NYC tomorrow for a Saturday Night concert at the Jazz At Lincoln Center complex featuring Ellis Marsalis in a concert entitled New Orleans Piano Kings. Along with Mr. Marsalis will be fellow piano players Henry Butler and Jonathan Batiste. Drummer Herlin Riley and bassist Reginald Veal will be filling out the roster of musicians. More details HERE. Should be quite a show.

2 Online NO Music Events

A couple of online music events y'all might want to check out . 1st up tomorrow Friday nite at Tipitinas you can watch a webcast of the Treme vs The Wire Battle of the Bands. See details HERE but basically the show is a fundraiser for the Tipitinas Foundation and the Roots of Music and will feature NO Bands (Galactic, Stooges Brass bands) vs a couple of bands from the Baltimore-DC area where go-go music is big. Sounds like it will be a lot of fun to watch. 

Next event is on Saturday night. Here you have a live broadcast of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra featuring NO's Kermit Ruffins on trumpet playing live from Champion's Square outside of the Superdome. Go HERE for details.

If it's Thursday....

...it must be Kermit Ruffins at Vaughn's..altho if you weren't in New Orleans last Thursday you could have caught his show in NYC at the Hiro Ballroom in Chelsea. Place was a trip- all Japanese Lanterns and lights...above the stage was an animitronic dragon complete with glowing red eyes and blowing huge puffs of smoke (much to Mr. Ruffin's amusement)..1st set was a typical Kermit Ruffins set- with some great trumpet solos and alot of banter with the audience. 2nd set was a tribute to Louis Armstrong's recent 110th birthday so Kermit changed out of his all white suit and returned to the stage in a formal black tuxedo. Band was great -featured female vocalist sounded good- but it was Mr. Ruffins' singing and trumpet playing that carried the show. A nice opportunity to see him up close and in person here in the East . All aboard!...

Live Radio Broadcast Alert: Monday 5.23.11 on WWOZ 7pm CST/8pm EST

Tune in to wwoz.org or 90.7 fm to hear the live broadcast of the "Soul Queen of New Orleans" Irma Thomas and the Professionals, along with Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers at Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World on the Eastbank. This concert is part of Rotary International's annual convention, taking place this year in New Orleans.