Is Live Music Going To Survive Technology?

By Jan Ramsey

What can be done to save live music? Last August, I wrote a blog that demonstrated my concern about the state of live music in New Orleans. Summers are always bad in New Orleans because it’s just hot as hell (and getting worse) and we just don’t have the influx of visitors that we have during most of the rest of the year. When OffBeat started, one of the things that we did immediately was to distribute the magazine in all the area hotels and motels, because tourists have always been told that NO

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