Rachel Lyons and the Jazz Fest Archives

Season 2, Episode 17: Our last scheduled episode of Season 2!   Rachel Lyons, the chief archivist of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, joins the Talking Threadheads podcast. The Archive’s collections include over 50 years of historic materials from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — including the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage and African, Folk and Food Heritage stages. These sessions provide valuable information about Louisiana’s culture and its impact on the world. The Archive also houses collections of photos, posters, film footage, audio recordings, signs, business records and other artifacts from events dating to the beginning of the Foundation in 1970.

 

Links discussed in this podcast:

 

https://www.jazzandheritage.org/the-archive/

https://jfdb.jazzandheritage.org/

https://folkways.si.edu/jazzfest

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_eb6af96e-a824-11eb-a3b8-3b240c817cf6.html

https://youtu.be/IObrxC6iYgE

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/arts/music/irma-thomas-pbs.html