December 2021 Five Ways We Can Help Build a Stronger Economic Safety Net For the Cultural Community in 2022 As we head into December, New Orleans is starting to resemble its old self again—music venues are open and hosting regular shows; second line Sundays are back; Mardi Gras 2022... MaCCNO
November 2021 HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Ida Underlines Housing Crisis Among Cultural Practitioners A bass player who moved in with his girlfriend after six weeks with no plumbing. A dancer-actress who has to deal with a... MaCCNO
September 2021 Back to the Status Quo or a Stronger City? Who Will Determine the Future of Post-Pandemic New Orleans? We’re 18 months deep into an ongoing pandemic and at the peak of the fourth wave, which is hitting Louisiana harder... MaCCNO
July 2021 COVID-Era Expansion of Outdoor Live Music Faces an Uncertain Future One of the few welcome impacts of the pandemic has been the widespread expansion of outdoor live music in New Orleans. For many months, the French Quarter was effectively shut... MaCCNO
May 2021 Making a Living as a New Orleans Musician: Then and Now, By the Numbers In our column last month, we began unpacking the idea of “going back to normal” and how various post-pandemic reopenings could perpetuate the “long-standing legacy of... MaCCNO
April 2021 GOING BACK TO “NORMAL” ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH It’s been a long, tough, and tragic year, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccine distribution is picking up, and with it, businesses are starting to reopen to more... MaCCNO
March 2021 GET YOUR BRASS OUT AND VOTE! A Q&A with Derrick Freeman & Arsène DeLay Prior to the November 3rd presidential election, the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic began working with cultural community... MaCCNO
February 2021 STEAL THIS PLAN Ten months into the pandemic, we haven’t seen a recovery plan for New Orleans’ cultural community. So we started writing one ourselves. New Orleans’ cultural community is... MaCCNO
January 2021 INEQUITABLE ASSESSMENTS: Corporate Chains Get Surprise Tax Breaks While the Community Suffers The City of New Orleans is culturally rich and cash poor. While this has long been the case, the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns have made this... MaCCNO
November 2020 How a New Historic Marker Creates a Literal Link to White Supremacy in the French Quarter Nick LaRocca, who falsely claimed to be the inventor of Jazz, was a braggart and a racist, having once said his “contention is that the Negroes learned to play this rhythm and... MaCCNO
October 2020 Where does New Orleans’ Music Economy Go From Here? MaCCNO Program Coordinator Hannah Kreiger-Benson recently sat down with MaCCNO Board members “Big Sam” Williams (bandleader, Big Sam’s Funky Nation) and Nate “Suave”... MaCCNO
September 2020 Pedestrianize The French Quarter? Maybe. But Not Without Input From the Cultural Community. The French Quarter is, in some form or another, about 300 years old. It’s weathered fires, plagues, wars, and hurricanes. It has seen preservation and planning successes and... MaCCNO
