Many Super Bowl events are invitation-only, but the Verizon Super Bowl Boulevard presents many of the area's best musicians for free.
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The circus that surrounds the Super Bowl has changed exponentially since New Orleans last hosted one in 2002, and it will be most evident along the river. From Jackson Square to Convention Center Boulevard, the Convention Center and the Mardi Gras World parking lot (the home of a Saturday celebrity beach football game and Justin Timberlake concert), the city's landscape has been or will be transformed into a branded VIP wonderland, and the football will be the excuse more than the reason for excess (Mark Waller's done some good writing on this at Nola.com). Fortunately, there is something for locals and the unlaminated to do besides gawk. The Verizon Super Bowl Boulevard at Woldenberg Park will feature free New Orleans music on four stages starting Thursday and continuing until early afternoon Sunday. Here's the schedule:
Thursday, Jan 31
NFC Stage
5:40 p.m.: Stooges Brass Band
8:40 p.m.: Bonerama
AFC Stage
5 p.m.: Lyle Henderson & Emanu-EL
7:20 p.m.: Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys
North End Zone Stage
5 & 7:20 p.m.: Original Dixieland Jazz Band
6 p.m.: Hot Club of New Orleans
8:40 p.m.: Stooges Brass Band
South End Zone Stage
5 p.m.: Cameron Dupuy & The Cajun Troubadours
6 & 7:20p.m.: High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band
8:40p.m.: Hot Club of New Orleans
Friday, Feb 1
NFC Stage
11 a.m.: Lagniappe Brass Band
1:30 p.m.: TBC Brass Band
4 p.m.: The Iguanas
6:30 p.m.: Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
9:15 p.m.: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
AFC Stage
12:15 p.m.: Gal Holiday & The Honky Tonk Revue
2:45 p.m.: James Andrews
5:15 p.m.: Pine Leaf Boys
7:45 p.m.: Walter "Wolfman" Washington & The Roadmasters
North End Zone Stage
10:15 & 11:40 a.m.: Tuba Skinny
1:05 p.m.: Lagniappe Brass Band
2:40 & 5:50 p.m.: Ingrid Lucia
4:05 p.m.: Barbara Shorts
7:15 p.m.: James Andrews
8:55 p.m.: Leo Jackson & The Melody Clouds
South End Zone Stage
10:30 a.m.: TBC Brass Band
12 & 1:35 p.m.: The Palmetto Bug Stompers
3:15 p.m.: Gal Holiday & The Honky Tonk Revue
5:05 p.m.: Mem Shannon
6:55 p.m.: The Iguanas
8:35 p.m.: Pine Leaf Boys
Saturday, Feb 2
NFC Stage
12:15 p.m.: John Mooney
3 p.m.: Sunpie & The LA Sunspots
5:45 p.m.: Tab Benoit
8:30 p.m.: Rebirth Brass Band
AFC Stage
11 am: Meschiya Lake
1:30 p.m.: Creole String Beans
4:15 p.m.: Lost Bayou Ramblers
7 p.m.: Roddie Romero & The Hub-City Allstars
North End Zone Stage
10:45 a.m. & 12:25 p.m.: Mahogany Brass Band
2:05 p.m.: Meschiya Lake
3:40 p.m.: John Mooney
5:30 & 8:25 p.m.: Viváz
7:10 p.m.: Betty Winn & One A-Chord
South End Zone Stage
10:45 a.m & 1:55 p.m.: Lars Edegran's New Orleans Jazz Band
12:20 & 3:30 p.m.: Kristin Diable
5:05 & 8:25 p.m.: Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band
6:45 p.m.: Sunpie & The LA Sunspots
Sunday, Feb 3
NFC Stage
10:10 & 11:10 a.m.: Cynthia Girtley's Gospel
12 p.m.: Soul Rebels
AFC Stage
10:40 a.m.: Charmaine Neville Band
12:30 p.m.: Papa Grows Funk
North End Zone Stage
10:15 a.m. & 12:55 p.m.: Treme Brass Band
11:25 a.m.: Tim Laughlin
South End Zone Stage
10:15 a.m. & 1 p.m.: Washboard Chaz Blues Trio
11:30 a.m.: David Doucet Cajun Trio
This is a very entertaining lineup, but seriously - no rock? no hip-hop? no EDM? None of the musics that people listen to most? Organizers would rather put some bands on twice than have any of that music? Besides being an insult to everybody in a band that doesn't have a horn, accordion or fiddle, it also furthers the notion that New Orleans is a place to go for a musical vacation before you go home to the music you like the rest of the year.
Your Spilt Milk
Alex you have to remember most of the rest of the country thinks New Orleans is "cajun country". Which,of course is like saying Northern Italy is French because they're next to each other. They expect cajun & dixieland. We're lucky that there are brass bands, blues & funk. That'll will startle them enough. & as for us we'l have to pretend that Bonerama & the Iguanas are rock & Shorty is rap y
You're right, but that doesn't mean we have to give them that. It's bad enough when other groups like CBS and the NFL come to town with imagery that caters to stereotypes and preconceived notions; it's worse when we do it to ourselves.
You are absolutely right. The powers that "shouldn't" be don't have a clue. NOLA is one of 2 or 3 most musically diverse cities in the country. Arguably the most. These fuckers can't even see it much less market it.
I fear this isn't a government thing (or not solely a government thing). My suspicion is that Festival Productions booked it - perhaps with some guidance or suggestions. I'm trying to get this confirmed.
No bounce? Big Freedia & Cheeky Blakk would kick ass & take names -as would, rock-wise, The Revivalists, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Generationals...
It's not like the bands DON'T EXIST here. Sheesh.
Agreed. Passing on rock bands is amazing because none of them are particularly outrageous or confrontational. I could see if producers chose to shy from bounce, but they're not the only rappers in town.
Efforts that focus on the exotic nature of New Orleans to the exclusion of anything else contribute to the tourist misperception of us and foster the stereotypes. It would not only be musically successful but socially valuable to show that we have music like you've never heard and music like you have. This is the sort of place that can and does produce both - we're not simply freaks who dance with hankies, walk in Indian feathers and p-pop at the drop of a beat. We're unusual, but we're not THAT unusual.
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