The New Orleans Jazz Museum and Jazz Foundation of America presents Barbara Shorts Band on Wednesday, February 28th at 2:00 PM CDT inside the New Orleans Jazz Museum. 

This program takes place inside our third floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.

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Barbara Shorts

New Orleans has nurtured, many forms of music, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues. Elements of all these forms can be heard when a native New Orleans Musician performs because, there are no solid dividing lines between them. So it is with singer Legendary Barbara Ann Shorts. To call her a Jazz Singer would be accurate yet limiting. You would believe her to be a gospel singer to hear her embrace a spiritual, but could also see her get down and dirty while belting out the Blues. She is simply New Orleans music personified. Whether she is performing in a theatrical production, in front of an orchestra , or with just a three piece combo, Barbara has her own special presence on stage that draws the audience into her music. Barbara is one of a few female native vocalist that is still carrying on her many styles of traditional music. Like throwing various forms into a pot of gumbo. Barbara Ann Shorts always serves it up spicy.