Oak Street Block Party - Wed April 30th.
Free Music and Crawfish Boil. 12:30 PM-7:00 PM. Celebrating Jazzfest, New Orleans and the music community at a free block party on Oak Street. There will be a stage in the Chiba parking lot and one in The Maple Leaf during changeovers. The event is a fundraiser for NOLA community radio station WWOZ and donations will be accepted at the block party.

Music line-up

Oak Street All-Stars- Eric Krasno, Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, Adam Deitch, Roosevelt Collier, Adam Smirnoff, Jesus Coomes, Nigel Hall, Alecia Chakour and The Shady Horns.
Pimps of Joytime
Dastardly Bastards
The Heard
Catfish Alliance

I can't believe it's less than a month to the start of Jazz Fest, I can almost taste the crawfish monica and the cochon de lait po boy! The Cubes have been posted on www.nojazzfest.com and Bart and I have posted 1326 gigs on the Grids so far with three weeks left to go. In comparison, last year we posted approximately 1500 gigs. There is such an uneblievable amount of musical talent to choose from this year playing a wide array of venues. I am personally looking forward to seeing the Saenger re-opened for Fest. If there are any other shows that some how we missed, send us an email and we'll add them. The LMF free concerts are released and posted approximately a week before Fest.

Now for something a little different on the Grids. Boom Boom Room Presents is celebrating its 15th YEAR by promoting an epic Hip Hop throwdown on May 1st at the Howlin Wolf...THE GRAND SLAM "Funkin'Dat Hip-Hop" will bring together Old-School Hip-Hop Masters performing the Most Famous Funk/ Soul/ Jazz Samples in Hip-Hop History. They will be playing solo sets and together with Robert Walter's Brand New Slang featuring DJ Logic, Brian J, Simon Lott, Victor Little, Joe Cohen and Mike Olmos. The Event Schedule will be a FLOW! One hip-hop artist turns over the stage to the next after completing his set.
There will be a continuous night of music without stops or set-breaks. Signature songs from ech Hip Hop artist will be performed by Brand New Slang before turning it over to the MCs. The MC's include Camp Lo, Chali 2na, Kool Keith and Manny Fresh. DJ Kevvy Kev will also be performing.
If you're interested in the entire schedule of this show, check it out under the Second Weekend Tab above.