An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a half a million people.

New Orleans R&B singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry has died at age 87.

Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.

The New Orleans street where one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life is being renamed in his honor.

Lloyd Price, a New Orleans mainstay and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, has died.

Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard's, told The Associated Press that Little Richard died Saturday morning. “Little Richard? That’s rock ‘n’ roll,” Neil Young, who heard Richard’s riffs on the radio in Canada, told biographer Jimmy McDonough. “I am the architect of rock ‘n’ roll!” Little Richard crowed at the 1988 Grammy Awards as the crowd rose in a standing ovation. In late 1955, Little Richard recorded the bawdy “Tutti Frutti,” with lyrics that were sanitized by a New Orleans songwriter.