The Abita Springs Busker Fest will be back at the town's trailhead on April 2 with a lineup of that culminates with the music of Tuba Skinny, an ensemble of well-known New Orleans' best-known buskers.

It’s Mardi Gras and the beginning of festival season, which means we’ll all be spending loads of time in the streets drinking, partying and having a general grand ol’ time. And that means it’s the fat ...

Pete Fountain, the clarinetist who became a global ambassador for New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound, died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice care in New ...

Pete Fountain, whose easygoing, apparently effortless style on the clarinet and his perpetually sunny disposition made him a natural ambassador for New Orleans, died Saturday in New Orleans. He was 86 ...