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Ticket Price $10/person
All shows are all ages, but we advise on bringing ages 12+
NOTE: $2 convenience fee to purchase online. You can purchase tickets in person by credit or cash at the box office starting one hour prior to each show.
6:30 p.m. Lobby Doors & Box Office Opens.
You can pre-purchase tickets or buy at the door. There will be food and drink for sale from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Two Featured Musicians will each perform one 25 minute set
8:00-8:15 p.m.
Intermission/Sign up for OPEN MIC
8:20-9:00 p.m.
OPEN MIC: We welcome spoken word, music, theater, comedy routines...anything that is appropriate for a "general" audience and between a 5 and 15 minute "routine" or presentation.
Graciela Gonzales (she/her) is a Dancer, Singer, Actor, and Musician from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a proud Metropolitan Dance Theatre of New Orleans dancer, and is currently studying Musical Theatre at NOCCA as a level 2 junior. She has worked with JPAS several times backstage and onstage. This season she was seen in Holiday Inn, In the Heights, Into the Woods Jr, and can be seen this summer in Grease. Other credits include: Shrek, Legally Blonde, Newsies, My Fair Lady, Annie, Mary Poppins Jr, and more. Special thanks to Momma, the bros, and all her friends and fam. Instagram: ggracielagonzales
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Jim McCormick is a Grammy- and CMA-nominated, multiplatinum-selling songwriter. He is currently a staff writer at Eclipse Music Publishing.
In 2021 his song "The Good Ones" was nominated by the Country Music Association for Song of the Year. That same year "The Good Ones" won the Favorite Country Song category at the American Music Awards.
McCormick has celebrated three #1 songs on the Billboard Country Airplay chart: Gabby Barrett's "The Good Ones" and Jason Aldean's "Take A Little Ride," both of which spent three weeks in the #1 position; and Brantley Gilbert's "You Don't Know Her Like I Do."[3] Current releases written by McCormick include Trace Adkins' "Welcome To," Luke Bryan's "All My Dreaming There," Jason Aldean's "Lights Go Out," Harry Connick Jr.'s "I Do Like We Do," Jon Pardi's "Lucky Tonight," and Trace Adkins's "Jesus and Jones." His songs also have been recorded and performed by Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson, Jeff Tweedy, Trisha Yearwood, Randy Travis, Ronnie Milsap, Jamey Johnson, Samantha Fish, Smash Mouth as well as many others.
McCormick was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Jesuit High School where he formed a band with his classmate Ed Conway. After graduating from Georgetown in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, McCormick moved back to New Orleans where he received a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry while teaching freshman composition at the University of New Orleans.
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Songwriter, singer and guitarist Alex McMurray has been writing and performing music professionally in New Orleans since 1989. Past and current bands include Tin Men, The Valparaiso Men's Chorus, The Write Brothers, Royal Fingerbowl, 007, Debbie Davis and the Mesmerizers and Happy Talk Band. He has worked as a sideman with Susan Cowsill, Paul Sanchez, Spencer Bohren, Greg Schatz, "Papa" John Gros, Lynn Drury and many others. In 2002 he spent six months performing sea shanties as "Cap'n Sandy" at Tokyo DisneySea. Awards include the 2020 Offbeat Magazine Best Country/Folk/Singer-Songwriter Artist and Album awards for his 2020 release "Lucky One", a 2014 Big Easy award for best Roots Rock artist and 2010 Big Easy award for Album of the Year. He has been performing as a leader and sideman at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival since 1993. He played himself on the HBO series “Treme” for several episodes. 2020 has seen him release two albums of original songs, Lucky One and Road Songs. He hosts the weekly “Fireside Chat” webcast every Tuesday night live from the Faraway Lounge at 8pm under his nom de covid “Mister Tuesday Night”.
Paul Sanchez is New Orleans born.
Sanchez was Off Beat Songwriter of the year in 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018.
Paul has also written a musical about New Orleans based on the New York Times Best Seller Nine Lives
He appeared as himself in the HBO series TREME.
Sanchez has written songs for:Darius Rucker of Hootie and The Blowfish, The Eli Young Band, John Boutte and Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New Orleans.
For more information or to book a show, visit: www.paulsanchez.com.
Follow him on Facebook @paul.sanchez.music and on Instagram @paulsanchezmusic
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Guitarist and harmonica player Raphaël Bas has been composing and performing music since junior high school. He grew up in Bourges, France where over the years he was exposed to a wide variety of music and artistic styles performed by world class musicians at the renowned Printemps de Bourges music festival. This is in fact where Raphaël first performed on an international stage at the age of 15.
Raphaël currently lives and works in New Orleans where he pursues his musical vocation, playing French gypsy swing while incorporating the sound of New Orleans trad jazz into his repertoire. Raphael performs under his own name and with his band, Harmonouche.
7:00-7:45PM
Gina Forsyth is a fiddler, singer/songwriter, and guitarist who lives in Breaux Bridge, LA. Gina is the longtime fiddler with Bruce Daigrepont’s Cajun band, and appears on three of Bruce’s recordings, including his latest, Bienvenu Dans Sud de la Louisiane. Her 2015 CD, Mid-City Aces, is part of the Cajun trio with Cameron Dupuy on accordion and his father, Michael Dupuy on guitar. She has also toured with the Cajun rock band Mamou, and played with a number of other Cajun artists, including Sheryl Cormier, Paul Daigle, and Waylon Thibodeaux. Known and loved for her fiddling, she has performed and taught Cajun fiddle at Fiddle Tunes, in Port Townsend, WA, Augusta Heritage Center, in West Virginia, and at Dewey Balfa Creole and Cajun Heritage Week, in Louisiana.
8:00-8:45PM
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Quint was raised in the New Orleans metro area where he attended the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, Loyola University of New Orleans (BA Music Performance) and is currently enrolled at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister on staff at First Baptist Church Westwego where he helps direct and arrange music. Outside of his involvement in his church, he also leads worship at revivals, conferences, camps and special events. Quint deeply loves writing and singing music that ministers to the soul whether for the purpose of singing in church or at the local art center.
7:00-7:20 p.m.
Joshua was born and raised just off the Mississippi River in Westwego, Louisiana. He has survived 3 kidney transplants, 2 brain bleeds, CIDP and cancer in 4 places among a plethora of other medical hurdles over the years. Throughout all these negative life circumstances he has learned that prospective is everything. Living life with purpose and intention has always been the pillar of his life philosophy. In high school, Joshua attended NOCCA for jazz guitar where his love for music developed and intertwined with his later discovery of his passion for teaching. He has been a music teacher in Gretna since 2018. In 2007 he was awarded the 1st place prize in the National Fine Arts Competition for guitar solo. The singer/songwriter penned his first song 20 years ago at age 13 and is currently in the process of putting together his first solo album with Grammy award winning producer, Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Queens of the Stone Age, Emmylou Harris and many more). Joshua's soulful, funky sound is easy-listening and meant for all ears!
7:30-7:50 p.m.
James Palmeri is an acoustic guitarist/vocalist from St. Bernard Parish. He is part of an acoustic cover band named Cypress Pop Trio. The band has been together for seven years consisting of Lindsey Tassin and his brother Thomas Palmeri. James’s passion has always been for music. His mom is a pianist and dad a trumpeter. He started playing brass instruments at a young age, and played through high school when he found his real calling: guitar. From bass, to electric, then to acoustic, James has played in many different genres of bands. He believes his true calling is on stage with an acoustic guitar, blending songs from all decades and genres. When he’s not playing music, he’s likely spending time with his wife and kids, hunting, or watching the Saints. He hopes to pass down his love for playing music to his daughter and son.
8:00-8:20 p.m.
Like the farming homesteaders of her native Mississippi River Delta, Ever More Nest builds houses of emotion among fields of mercy, forests of fears, and streams of consciousness. These are houses that are lived in, that draw in visitors to comfortable confines with the promise of warmth despite the dust, grit, and dangers of the day. Rooted in Southern musical traditions and infused with confessional 90s angst, the music of Ever More Nest (the moniker of songwriter Kelcy Wilburn) can likewise lull and rock you right off a front porch. Ever More Nest's new album was labeled "a collection of well-crafted, articulate songs sung in a voice that is clear, strong, precise and expressive." by Nola.com's Keith Spera.
8:30-9:15 p.m.
