Ruby's is located on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in beautiful Mandeville, Louisiana. Headliner live bands every Friday and Saturday night 10pm till 2am, and live music on alternating Thursdays, as well as Ladies night.
The Drew Young gumbo recipe: 1 part Elvis Costello, 1 pinch Tom Petty, a dash of Counting Crows, a handful of Lyle Lovett, a whole lot of fun and love, 1 bucket-load of faith, Toss all ingredients in a cast-iron skillet, cook down, remove from fire. Enjoy...
The state program to foster the music industry in Louisiana. "At the Louisiana Music Commission, we're dedicated to promoting and developing our music industry to its fullest potential. After all, as the wellspring of America's music, Louisiana offers music lovers more than a lifetime's worth of music history that continues to be written today."
Since 1977 Mardi Gras Records has specialized in the rich musical heritage of Lousiana. All of our music comes to you directly from New Orleans. Enjoy!
Psychic Dancehall, featuring local bands Lump, Weedeater, the Royal Pendletons and Evil Nurse Sheila
Offbeat Publications
Offbeat Music Magazine & The Louisiana Music Directory
421 Frenchmen Street, Suite 200
New Orleans, LA 70116
Phone: 504-944-4300
Fax: 504-944-4306
General email: offbeat@offbeat.com
Contributors
Christopher Courville
Elsa Hahne
Andrew Hamlin
Jeff Hannusch
Robert Fontenot
Steve Hochman
David Kunian
Aaron LaFont
Rene Louapre
Briana Prevost
Tom McDermott
John Swenson
Peter Thriffiley
Dan Willging
Ben Berman
Started OffBeat and its associated entities almost two decades ago as an effort to improve and expand local music culture and business. Known for her scathing “Mojo Mouth” essays, Ramsey has been a music activist since the early 1980s, loves local culture and lives down the street from the H&R Bar—just to prove it. She is a native New Orleanian and a (former) good Catholic girl.
Managing Editor Joseph Irrera, a native of Brooklyn, is living proof that “real men” listen to opera. Joseph, whose forebears came from Sicily, has composed hundreds of pop songs few human beings have been privileged to hear. He's also an aficionado of and expert on classical music and opera, as well as European and mid-20th century U.S. pop music.
Covers the Cajun/zydeco scene as a feature writer for Lafayette's The Daily Advertiser, contributing the weekly "Bayou Boogie" column (a version of which also appears in OffBeat). Herman hosts a weekly "Bayou Boogie" television program on KDCG-TV and a weekly "Bayou Boogie" radio show on KRVS. He resides in Opelousas, deep in the heartland of zydeco.
Geraldine Wyckoff
Contributor
Composes columns on local music, jazz and street culture for OffBeat. Ms. Wyckoff also contributes to New Orleans Magazine and is a frequent contributor to national jazz publications. She is a native of Oregon and devotes most of her free time listening to local live music, attending second lines and attending the occasional jazz funeral.
Jeremy Deibel
Contributor
A native of Norco, writes OffBeat's "St. Rock" column, dedicated to the long-suffering and much-maligned rock musicians of New Orleans.
Robert Fontenot
Contributor
Who covers rap and hip-hop in his "Urban Legends" column, is, strangely enough, one of Louisiana’s leading experts on the Beatles. Robert recently interviewed convicted murderer C-Murder (a.k.a. C-Miller) in prison.
Michael Hurtt
Contributor
A native of South Bend, Indiana, writes OffBeat's "Hidden Charms" column, focusing on the forgotten music stars of the past and present. Michael is a frequent contributor to the English music periodical Mojo and leads his own rockabilly band, Michael Hurtt and his Haunted Hearts.
Marc Stone
Contributor
OffBeat's blues columnist, was born in 1970 in New York City. He began playing guitar at 16 after buying his first B.B. King record. Marc still listens to B.B. King on a regular basis when he's not performing in the nightclubs of New Orleans.
Michael Patrick Welch
Contributor
A native of Florida and current Ninth Ward resident, formerly taught high school in New Orleans, where his students dubbed him “The White Bitch,” a name he now utilizes professionally as an experimental musician. Michael once interviewed OutKast's Andre 3000 when he was still known as Andre Benjamin and is the author of the highly-acclaimed novel “The Donkey Show.”
Here's a video that was captured of me offering my bottleneck slide interpretation of an old blues song, Goin' T' Brownsville, on open mic night at Old Strokers in Everett, WA. It starts out with me briefly introducing my homemade "Nobro" resophonic guitar and explaining some of the various recycled garage sale junk that I used in it's construction. Enjoy!
This show is to benefit Jo, a single mom who teaches art to autistic children. She has medical insurance, but that and her salary is not enough to cover her medical expenses, much less her cost-of-living. She is currently unable to work full time, but she is making progress with her recovery. The proceeds from this show go to help her and her son get by while she is in treatment.
Surf Night: Doors open at 9pm. Early bird special from 9-10pm is $1 High Lifes and PBR's. $2.50 [well] Tequila Sunrises and Margaritas all night. Luau-style food! $5 cover. One-night-only booth by Red Hot Kitten's Rockin' Boutique.
Just giving updates to the fans of our music. We currently only have live recordings from a year ago on our page. A lot has happend to us in that year. We lost our orginal drummer since he moved from Louisiana to Washington State, found a fantastic fill in drummer as well as a tenor sax and pianist, we played live for the first time on the radio, and we are currently working a deal with Orleans Records to record our first professional E.P. or maybe even album. Even though the recordings are live, some people love them and if you get the chance to stop by the page, we would love to hear more input from people. The fans are the ones that motivate us the most.
We hope to hear from you soon and enjoy your summer! Peace & Love.
In early October I wrote one of my latest songs called, “Wall Street Bail Out Blues.” Within four days of writing it, a video crew captured me playing it on the street at Seattle’s Pike Place Market and posted their video on YouTube. That video has now reached the attention of a writer for The Wall Street Journal who is writing an article about those who have written songs about our tough economic times. His article will be published this week and I’m excited to read it.
Who knows where this might lead? Call me an optimist but I have a feeling that this could mean that a few more seconds of that elusive fifteen minutes of fame might be coming my way.
It ain’t the cover of the Rolling Stone but it’s not every day that a writer from a major worldwide news outlet seeks me out to talk to me about my songwriting. That’s a huge validation of my efforts at staying true to my vision. I must be doing something right.
