Well, now that Mardi Gras has officially ended, we should start seeing daily announcements of more shows for JazzFest. This weekend the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade will roll and of course, next week there will be fine festivities on the 17th.

The grids feature a few stellar new shows, updates to existing shows, and include two productions by Threadheads Records and the Threadhead Record Foundation: the 2nd annual Threadhead Thursday, and the Legendary 7th Annual Patry !

The lineup has been announced for both Threadhead Thursday, a free concert that takes place at City Park's Botanical Gardens on the Thursday before JazzFest, and the Legendary 7th Annual Patry, an incredible event that takes place on the Tuesday between the weekends. Look for both on the grids under the *Special Event row that appears at the top of the grids.

Another release by the Threadhead group, under its sister label, Mystery Street Records, is a neat app for the iPhone (iPod Touch, and iPad) to accompany the release of Sounds of New Orleans: Frenchmen Street. The app, available from the itunes store provides you a portable version of the release, with tons of lagniappe including videos, press releases, and blog posts regarding projects associated with the label. To download the app: Click Here!

It's getting closer !!! 73 sleeps until JazzFest 2011...

Hello world !

Well, we've officially begun to add shows to the new grids website. The address is the same, but the grids have changed a little, for the better :)

I'd like to thank Brian P (apostrophe for all you threadheads) for all of his volunteer work in getting the grids site back up after it was lost last year. He had to start from scratch, create a whole new backbone, and I have to tell you - it is light years better and a dream to work with ! I don't want to get into the details, but suffice it to say, if we'd had to pay for this, it would have easily cost us $10K.

We hope to add new features as we go along...but realistically, we're not sure what can get done between now and Jazzfest. I will tell you this, the time and effort put into recreating these grids in a new and more advanced format will give us crazy cool possibilities for next year.

As always, if you know of a show, gimme a shout over email,

Michele