This event has been postponed.

2021 DANNY BARKER BANJO AND GUITAR FESTIVAL GOES VIRTUAL 

FESTIVAL MIX OF MUSIC AND TALK TO STREAM ONLINE JANUARY 14TH – 16TH, 2021 

Organizers have announced the lineup for an all-virtual 2021 Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival. A partnership of the festival, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, OffBeat, and WWOZ-FM, the 2021 mix of interviews and live music streamed from the balcony of the Jazz Museum  (but no in-person audience permitted) will be presented across several web platforms, including the Facebook pages of the Jazz Museum, Jazz Park, WWOZ, OffBeat and the festival.  Streaming dates for the festival are Thursday, January 14, 2021 – Saturday, January 16, 2021 (see full schedule below).

Interviews will be conducted by longtime WWNO-FM host and producer Fred Kasten, and will include segments with multi-Grammy-winning vocalist and Tony-winning actress Dee Dee Bridgewater; Grammy-winning vocalist Catherine Russell; cellist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Leyla McCalla; and composer and educator Roger Dickerson. A video tour with Hogan Jazz Archive curator Melissa Weber of the archive’s “Danny and Blue Lu Barker Collection” – and “Best of Danny and Blue Lu” video assembled by filmmaker and educator Matt Martinez will also be presented.

More information is available from festival producer Detroit Brooks

 detroitbrooks@yahoo.com – 504-452-6705.

2021 DANNY BARKER BANJO AND GUITAR FESTIVAL SCHEDULE