Upcoming: Bonerama @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise

Upcoming: Big Freedia @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Next Wednesday (8/29)

BIG FREEDIA: Wed Aug 29 aboard The Rocks Off Concert Cruise: Harbor Lights

Aboard The Harbor Lights

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Rocks Off Cruise Aboard the Harbor Lights

Boards: 7:00pm / Departs: 8:00pm

E. 23rd St. & FDR Dr. Maps & Directions

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Big Freedia (pronounced “Free-da”) is the undisputed “Queen Diva” of Bounce Music, and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout her home town of New Orleans.

Bounce Music is an original urban music rising up from the challenging yet fun-loving nature of the New Orleans housing projects which dominate the city’s street culture, and Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce reserved for self-proclaimed “Sissies” (a locally used name for biological men with varied and ambiguous sexual identities) that has risen to prominence in recent years and features explicitly gay and cross-dressing musicians and themes. Big Freedia, like other “Sissy” artists, has achieved mainstream success with several New Orleans hit singles such as “Gin in My System” and “Azz Everywhere!” from her albums “An Ha, Oh Yeah” (1999) and “Queen Diva” (2003). Freedia began her musical career almost 15 years ago at the Walter L. Cohen High School in New Orleans, where she was enlisted as choir director from her Sophomore to Senior years. She sees her performance as a Bounce artist as an extension of this work, often interacting in a call and response/teacher and student fashion with her audiences.

While also running a successful decorating business (for which she has counted the Mayor’s office as a client), Freedia has begun traveling outside the city regularly with her dancers, The Divas, and live DJ, Rusty Lazer, playing to sold out audiences from the East to the West Coast alongside (or onstage with) artists such as Spank Rock, Ninjasonik, Monique, The Rapture, 7 Seconds, Snoop Dogg and many more. 2011 has been a banner year for the Queen Diva as she's begun to travel to Europe and beyond, headlining shows in Paris (Social Club), Amsterdam (Valtifest), Milan (Nike Stadium) and London. Freedia will perform at Meredith Festival in Australia this December, followed by a 4 city Austalian tour, then returns to the Big Easy to put the finishing touches on her next album which will include collaborations with New Orleans' most prominent rappers and beatmakers alongside the work of unique producers and performers from around the world.

Upcoming: Bonerama Concert Cruise Tomorrow Night

Bonerama

Aboard The Jewel

Friday, August 20, 2010

Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Jewel

Boards: 7:00pm / Departs: 8:00pm
E. 23rd St. & FDR Dr. Maps & Directions

Advance: $25 / Day of Show: $30

Tickets

Bonerama

WEBSITE MYSPACE

Even in a city that doesn't play by the rules, New Orleans' Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock and free improvisation in the same set; maybe even the same song. Bonerama has been repeatedly recognized by Rolling Stone, hailed as "the ultimate in brass balls" (2005) and praised for their "…crushing ensemble riffing, human-feedback shrieks and wah-wah growls" (2007). Bonerama carries the brass-band concept to places unknown; what other brass band could snag an honor for "Best Rock Band" (Big Easy Awards 2007)? As cofounder Mark Mullins puts it, "We thought we could expand what a New Orleans brass band could do. Bands like Dirty Dozen started the "anything goes" concept, bringing in the guitars and the drum kit and using the sousaphone like a bass guitar. We thought we could push things a little further."

Upcoming: Henry Butler Boat Cruise Tonight

In association with the Musicians Aid Society

Musicians' Aid Society Jubilee

Henry Butler / Gent Treadly

OPEN BAR!

Aboard The Jewel

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Jewel

Boards: 7:00pm / Departs: 8:00pm
E. 23rd St. & FDR Dr. Maps & Directions

Advance: $99 / Day of Show: $100

Tickets

Henry Butler

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An eight-time W.C. Handy "Best Blues Instrumentalist - Piano" award nominee, Henry Butler knows no limitations. Although blinded by glaucoma since birth, Butler is also a world class photographer with his work displayed at exhibitions throughout the United States. Playing piano since the age of six, Butler is a master of musical diversity. Combining the percussive jazz piano playing of McCoy Tyner and the New Orleans style playing of Professor Longhair through his classically trained wizardry, Butler continues to craft a sound uniquely his own. A rich amalgam of jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues and R&B influences, his music is as excitingly eclectic as that of his New Orleans birthplace.

In Pictures: Anders Osborne &Tab Benoit @ Rocks Off Concernt Cruise 6/3/10

photos by Greg Aiello

Tab Benoit & Anders Osborne on The Temptress - 6/3/10



Tab Benoit on The Temptress - 6/3/10



Anders Osborne Band on The Temptress - 6/3/10



Tab Benoit on The Temptress - 6/3/10



Tab Benoit on The Temptress - 6/3/10

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i Anders Osborne CD Release Party! Anders Osborne / Tab Benoit Thursday, June 3, 2010 Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Temptress Boards: 7:00pm / Departs: 8:00pm W. 41st St. Maps & Directions WEBSITE MYSPACE Tab Benoit WEBSITE MYSPACE

ANDERS OSBORNE w/ Tab Benoit date: Thursday - 6/3/2010

Upcoming (on June 3): Anders Osborne / Tab Benoit @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise