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About this concert
7:30 PM CST
DON PAUL AND RIVERS ANSWER MOONS – LOUISIANA STORIES at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market premieres on Saturday December 12 at 7:30 P.M. This holiday season, experience a transcendent live performance featuring multiple GRAMMY® Award winners, extraordinary musicians, and captivating dancers as they bring all 12 tracks of ‘Louisiana Stories’ to life on stage. In 2025, ‘Louisiana Stories’ spent an incredible 22 weeks at #1 on the Crossover Jazz chart in North America, making this a performance you won’t want to miss. Tickets for the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Shows can be found at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/music-schedule/ New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market offers World-Renowned & Award-Winning Musicians, New Premium Sound & Lighting Technologies, Signature Cocktails & Drinks, Private Valet Parking, as well as Legendary Live Performances, and Outstanding Memorable Experiences! Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons is a visionary New Orleans ensemble led by poet, author, and composer Don Paul. Blending spoken-word poetry with the deep grooves of jazz, funk, and roots music, the group brings together some of the Crescent City’s most accomplished musicians, including: 2x-GRAMMY® Award Winner & 3x-GRAMMY® Nominated Saxophone Legend ROGER LEWIS; GRAMMY® Award Winner & GRAMMY® Nominated “One-In-A-Million Player” (Elvis Costello) KIRK JOSEPH of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band on sousaphone; “Banjo Hall of Fame” Inductee & Guitarist DON VAPPIE; Master Drummer HERMAN LEBEAUX (Allen Toussaint’s band & orchestra); and Composer & Percussionist ALEXEY MARTI. DPRAM is also joined by an extraordinary lineup of Louisiana musical talent, including 2x-GRAMMY® Award Winners & 3x-GRAMMY® Nominated LOUIS and ANDRE MICHOT (Lost Bayou Ramblers), 2x-GRAMMY® Award Winner & 14x-GRAMMY® Nominated MICHAEL DOUCET (Beausoleil), Award-Winning Singer & Guitarist LYNN DRURY, and more to be announced! Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons - Louisiana Stories is an immersive celebration of Louisiana’s rich musical traditions, brought to life through world-class musicianship, movement, rhythm, and storytelling. You will be moved in your body, mind, and spirit. Tickets for DON PAUL AND RIVERS ANSWER MOONS – LOUISIANA STORIES at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Saturday December 12 at 7:30 P.M. are NOW On-Sale on Ticketmaster, Facebook Events at: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BPMeN1MEj/ and the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Website at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/event/don-paul-and-rivers-answer-moons-louisiana-stories/ - Doors Open 2 Hours before the Show!! Please follow us on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/jazzbluesmarket/ All of the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Shows & Events can be found at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/music-schedule/ - OUTSTANDING 2026 & 2027 SHOWS ON-SALE NOW!! Sign-up for the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Email Newsletter at: www.jazzandbluesmarket.com/subscribe to stay informed on Upcoming Shows, New Artist Announcements, Promotional Offers, Ticket On-Sale Dates, Special Performances, and much more!! Thank you!! PRIVATE EVENTS, CORPORATE EVENTS & WEDDINGS. The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market offers a spectacular venue to host important corporate functions, weddings, intimate or large-scale social gatherings, private parties, and memorable celebrations!! If interested, please email: [email protected].
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DON PAUL has led or produced 29 Albums since 1988 and written many more than 30 Books since his first novel, Among Ashes, at age 16 in 1966. His current Band is Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons (DPRAM) with ROGER LEWIS, KIRK JOSEPH, DON VAPPIE, HERMAN LEBEAUX and ALEXEY MARTI and their 2025 Album is the sequence of 12 Tracks that are also meant to serve for a Stage-Show, LOUISIANA STORIES. THIERY DE CLEMENSAT wrote about LOUISIANA STORIES on January 2 for Paris Move: ‘This is an artistic masterpiece, worthy of inclusion among those albums—or in this case, double albums—we deem essential.’
Great musicians have for 37 years graced Don Paul with their collaboration. His Suspect Many Band in the San Francisco Bay Area included his brother Kenton Hulme, Babatundé Lea, Dhyani Dharma Mas, John Baker, George Cremaschi, Richard Howell, John Karr, James Henry, Kenny Blackman, and John Law. In the 1990s Bay Area he came to produce Albums led by Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, India Cooke, and Paul Plimley and worked also with Ustad Salamat and Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan, Donald Robinson, Larry Ochs, Chris Brown, William Winant, Myles Boisen, Miya Masaoka, George Lewis, and Terbo Ted. He also produced the 1989 and 1992 Rebel Poets compilations Worlds Made Flesh and America Fears The Drum (among the great poets and performers on these Albums q.r. hand, Alfonso Texidor, Jack Hirschman, Boadiba, Sarah Menefee, John Sinclair, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, peter plate, Genny Lim, Opal Palmer Adisa and devorah major.).
After 10 years as a volunteer in the SF Bay Area and then in post-Katrina New Orleans, 2000 into 2011, Don Paul resumed recording in 2014 with the solo Voice-and-Percussion They Call To You and the collaboration and Poems-and-Improvisation with Kidd Jordan and Morikeba Kouyaté Women Center Earth, Sea And Sky. He also toured that year with Hamid Drake and Alex de Grassi as the GALLOP Trio. He, Roger, Kirk and trumpeter Mario Abney began performances in 2015. In 2018 he, Kidd, Hamid and Alex recorded the Soundtrack for Melissa Gregory Rue’s documentary film “Live Out Loud”. Since 2020 he’s released two compilations of Poems and Songs, involving many of the superb musicians named above,, The Time We Have, Meld 1 and WOMEN and MUSIC, Meld 2, and an Album with Hamid Drake, COMPASSION, Poems and Drums. In 2022 he produced Roger Lewis’ début as leader, ALRIGHT!, and his own collection of mostly new Songs and Poems, LOVE OVER WAR.
Read MoreGreat musicians have for 37 years graced Don Paul with their collaboration. His Suspect Many Band in the San Francisco Bay Area included his brother Kenton Hulme, Babatundé Lea, Dhyani Dharma Mas, John Baker, George Cremaschi, Richard Howell, John Karr, James Henry, Kenny Blackman, and John Law. In the 1990s Bay Area he came to produce Albums led by Glenn Spearman, Lisle Ellis, India Cooke, and Paul Plimley and worked also with Ustad Salamat and Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan, Donald Robinson, Larry Ochs, Chris Brown, William Winant, Myles Boisen, Miya Masaoka, George Lewis, and Terbo Ted. He also produced the 1989 and 1992 Rebel Poets compilations Worlds Made Flesh and America Fears The Drum (among the great poets and performers on these Albums q.r. hand, Alfonso Texidor, Jack Hirschman, Boadiba, Sarah Menefee, John Sinclair, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, peter plate, Genny Lim, Opal Palmer Adisa and devorah major.).
After 10 years as a volunteer in the SF Bay Area and then in post-Katrina New Orleans, 2000 into 2011, Don Paul resumed recording in 2014 with the solo Voice-and-Percussion They Call To You and the collaboration and Poems-and-Improvisation with Kidd Jordan and Morikeba Kouyaté Women Center Earth, Sea And Sky. He also toured that year with Hamid Drake and Alex de Grassi as the GALLOP Trio. He, Roger, Kirk and trumpeter Mario Abney began performances in 2015. In 2018 he, Kidd, Hamid and Alex recorded the Soundtrack for Melissa Gregory Rue’s documentary film “Live Out Loud”. Since 2020 he’s released two compilations of Poems and Songs, involving many of the superb musicians named above,, The Time We Have, Meld 1 and WOMEN and MUSIC, Meld 2, and an Album with Hamid Drake, COMPASSION, Poems and Drums. In 2022 he produced Roger Lewis’ début as leader, ALRIGHT!, and his own collection of mostly new Songs and Poems, LOVE OVER WAR.
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New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market
1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans, LA
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