At the 1996 Best of the Beat recognizing the best music of 1995, Gina Forsyth and Waylon Thibodeaux’s album Dans La Louisianne won as the best Cajun album. In her acceptance speech Gina Forsyth made ...

OffBeat’s annual Best of the Beat Music Awards started nearly 30 years ago, in 1996. OffBeat founder and publisher Jan Ramsey decided that our musicians and music businesses deserved an awards event ...

While in high school, Orlando Gilbert got a handle on New Orleans brass band songs like “Paul Barbarin’s Second Line” and “Gimme My Money Back” playing alongside his father, John “Prince” Gilbert, in ...

In the months following Hurricane Katrina, scores of New Orleans musicians found themselves cast adrift in unfamiliar territory: Houston. Some had barely managed to grab their instruments before ...

Members of a Doncaster brass band are celebrating success after being crowned champions in a prestigious music contest.