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The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.

Read the Room is a indie-funk band founded by guitarist, Marcello Gleason and keyboardist, Snova Kayfetz in uptown New Orleans. Their line-up features drummer Mack Tracy, and Bassist Mike Tenreiro, with a rotating cast of local New Orleans singers, including Shelby Griffith, background vocalist for Nola's very own Big Funky Sam, and many others. Read the Room is heavily influenced by Motown/Soul musicians like Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers and everything inbetween. Some of their more modern influences include Vulfpeck, Jake Sherman, Silk Sonic. Read the Room's original music blends their older and newer influences into a fresh take on funky feel good rhythms and warm harmony that speaks to their peers and calls back to the vintage.

Renée Gros is an emerging singer-songwriter born, raised, and based in New Orleans, LA. Influenced by the distinctive sounds of her hometown, she combines the energy of vintage rhythm and blues with the vulnerable nuances of her own personal experiences. Local favorites including Jon Cleary, Nigel Hall, and Ivan Neville helped bring her original music to life in the studio. Her debut EP, Temporary Love, is out now.

Heavy weather is a funk fusion band influenced by bands like weather report, butcher brown, and lettuce

Funky Lampshades are band with a unique gift of channeling spirits of classic R&B, Rock, Blues, Soul in to modern terms with sly interpretation. Based out of Gulf Shores Alabama, Funky Lampshades, plays all along the south east to bring that funk  fo that ass.

The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.

Jake Gartenstein, New Orleans based drummer, guitarist, and composer, brings in close musical companions to create a night based on his favorite music. Expect classic prog rock covers with soaring riffs, soul deep cuts from beloved artists, and original songs arranged for the occasion.

Founded in 1984, the Dodecaphonics are Dartmouth College’s oldest and premier gender-inclusive a cappella group. They are a tight-knit, fun-loving group with members from around the globe, who write and perform all their own arrangements spanning genres, go on tour every winter (and are here in New Orleans this year!), and just released their newest EP, “Love, Dodecs” on streaming platforms! They are the first a cappella group at Dartmouth to have been recognized by Best of College A Cappella, have opened for Bobby McFerrin, and have been at least ICCA semifinalists every time we've competed! Please welcome the Dartmouth Dodecs!

The Talismen formed in 2015 in Montgomery, Alabama, during the band members’ high school years. Over the past eight years, the band has evolved and progressed as a highly creative, powerful force; entertaining audiences across the country. With a combination of energy and sophistication beyond their years, The Talismen approach each performance as a totally unique experience featuring an expansive catalog of soulful, funk-filled originals, along with a constantly evolving rotation of covers.

The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.

Strange Roux is an original, female fronted rock’n roll band from New Orleans.

Specializing in deep cuts from the golden age of New Orleans Soul Music

Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires stir up an intoxicating brew of the profound and the profane, of virtue and vice and most importantly the volatile in-between. Ted’s songs explore hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-and-out. The Thousandaires -- with Hefko on vocals, guitar and tenor sax -- bring these stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, the rough-hewn, bare-bones tone of backwoods folk songs and the raucous vibrancy of classic Louisiana Rhythm and Blues. Their 2018 album, Gas Station Guru, has gotten great press and radio airplay all over the world, and Down Below, was picked by a poll of Offbeat Magazine writers as one of the 50 best albums of 2021. Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires had the honor of performing at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2022, after a two-year pause in action, and now they’re back performing far and wide from New Orleans favorite dive bars, to venues an festivals across the country.

Grits & Greens is a powerful four piece best described as rock and roll with a soulful and jam-heavy delivery

The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.

Doctor Lo Faber, founder of NYC jam band God Street Wine, brings a band of NOLA veteran musicians to explore an improvisational blend of country, rock, and soul.

Joe Gelini is a 2x Grammy Nominated drummer and bandleader of the Mardi Gras Indian Brass Funk Band, “Cha Wa”. He brings his brand of Nola Soul Jazz Organ Funk featuring Rik Fletcher on Organ, Tajh Derosier on Tenor Sax and Matt Galloway on Guitar.

Lee Yankie is a guitarist and singer/songwriter from the Mobile and New Orleans areas and has been performing 20 years. His sound is a southern soul/funk thing heavily influenced by the blues and the sounds of New Orleans. He’s currently working on his second album produced by Kevin Scott (Jimmy Herring’s 5 of 7, Forq) and touring with The Honey Island Swamp from New Orleans. He joined the band as lead guitar player in 2018, and will touring again in 2023.

Happy Holidays to all of our fans! Join us with family and friends!

The Soul Rebels started with an idea – to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context. The band has built a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in a deep pocket funk party-like atmosphere. The Soul Rebels continue to chart new territory as they feature in major films, tour globally, and combine topnotch musicianship with songs that celebrate dancing, life, funk and soul.

Or Shovaly Plus is a jazz-funk band playing a range vintage of music - soul jazz, funk, New Orleans and original tunes, all with hip hop and oriental influences. The band has been likened to a combination of The Meters/Soulive with influences from Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal and Avishai Cohen. The band is based in New Orleans where it can be found on Frenchman Street, the House of Blues, hotels and bars and restaurants.  Or Shovaly Plus was most recently featured in the 2022 NOLA x NOLA Music Festival and Treme Festival.

Hash Cabbage plays Kozmic Psychedelic American Music. Hash Cabbage tours but is based out of New Orleans, Louisiana

Jeff's Back features Carter Wilkinson, Jake Gartenstein, Shout Young, Sean Weber, Raph Zee, Clementine Hartman, Renée Gros and Sari Jordan. The band formed to pay tribute to the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck back in April, and continue to build chemistry playing sets of original music and funky, high-octane covers.

Celebrate the New Year with us and join us on New Year's Eve!

An original and improvisational blend of American Roots Rock