Thu, 11/10/2016 - 6:10 am

The Preservation Hall Foundation, in conjunction with Horns to Havana's Jazz Amistad program, will be hosting Cuban students from Conservatorio Amadeo Roldan for a residency from January 3rd - 10th. In this seven-day residency, students will study the roots of New Orleans jazz, immerse themselves in the rich musical culture of New Orleans and explore the deep rhythmic connections between the two Caribbean port cities of Havana and New Orleans.

In support of this residency, the Preservation Hall Foundation is hosting an instrument supply drive to help these students further their musical development. During Creole Christmas this year, you can donate new instruments supplies, such as valve oil, slide oil, strings, mouthpieces, etc. These supplies will go a long way to help these young musicians, as there is a shortage for supplies in Cuba.

The Creole Christmas performances will be on:

Sunday, December 18th, 2016 
2:30pm / 4:00pm

Saturday, December 24th, 2016 
1:00pm / 2:30pm / 4:00pm

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 6 AM CST HERE.
 
All proceeds from the performance will benefit the Preservation Hall Foundation's education, archival, outreach and legacy initiatives in 2017 and beyond.

Thu, 12/08/2016 - 6:38 am

Kind Ladies and Sweet Sirs,

We cordially invite you to a narrowly elegant affair, “Hall Lange Syne;" presented at The Preservation Hall on December Thirty-First, Two Thousand Sixteen celebrating the waning of the passing year and the genesis of the new.

Carouse with us. Delight in visual and sonic merriments. Indulge in the Hot Jazz sounds of The Preservation Hall-Star Band. Luxuriate with a companionable Champagne toast in our innermost courtyard at the stroke of Midnight.

Consider our Hall your Home for the evening’s escapade; please come and go at your leisure. Very Important Person “VIP” packages are available for those seeking a further elevated experience. Proceeds from this extravagant event support our Foundation.

Accommodations are limited so please book with haste!

~Eat, Drink, and Be Sweets~

Thu, 02/23/2017 - 3:39 pm

Today, Preservation Hall Jazz Band announces the release of our their album, So It Is, featuring all-new original music, out April 21st! “So It Is” finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them our 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba.

In Cuba, all of a sudden we were face to face with our musical counterparts. There’s been a connection between Cuba and New Orleans since day one - we’re family. A gigantic light bulb went off and we realized that New Orleans music is not just a thing by itself; it’s part of something much bigger. It was almost like having a religious epiphany. Listen to "Santiago" the first single off So It Is.

Tue, 03/06/2018 - 8:42 am

Preservation Hall's 14th Annual Midnight Preserves series welcomes prominent artists from a variety of genres alongside the Preservation Hall Collective for intimate midnight concerts within the walls of our hallowed venue in the heart of the French Quarter. Past guests have included Jon Batiste, Shovels and Rope, Sharon Jones, Alabama Shakes, Robert Plant, Al Jarreau, Charlie Musselwhite, The Del McCoury Band, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Givers, The Lone Bellow, Ernan Lopez-Nussa and dozens more.

While we’ll miss the Preservation Hall Jazz Band during Jazzfest’s first weekend when they are in Europe opening for Arcade Fire, we’re ecstatic to introduce new elements and perspectives from our greater New Orleans musical family to the Midnight Preserves experience.  Join us in welcoming jazz juggernaut and New Orleans native son Christian Scott as our first Artist-In-Residence for the first weekend of Midnight Preserves. Preservation Hall Foundation’s Musical Director, Charlie Gabriel, will be performing alongside Mr. Scott, bringing forth the spirit of tradition-passing that is so deeply embedded within the Preservation Hall Community.

In true Preserves fashion, Mr. Scott will hand-select surprise guest collaborators to join him in exploring both his deep connections to Preservation Hall and his journey as the progenitor of “Stretch Music,” a jazz-rooted genre-blind musical form that attempts to stretch jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many other musical forms, languages and cultures as possible. Here’s a clip from his most recent visit to the Hall for the finale of his Refined Players Series.

For second weekend, we will welcome back PHJB with surprise special guests to be announced. While the guest artists for this year's series are not announced in advance, rest assured that every night will present collaborations audiences will never forget.

As always, proceeds from the series will benefit the Preservation Hall Foundation's educational, outreach, archiving, and legacy initiatives in 2018 and beyond. A portion of your ticket price is tax deductible. Tickets are limited, so book with haste. 

Tickets will go on-sale to the general public this Friday, March 9th at 12pm CST at www.midnightpreserves.com

Tue, 03/31/2020 - 3:23 pm

The doors at Preservation Hall are closed for the foreseeable future, and our 60-member musical collective, like everyone else, is facing uncertainty. To address these challenges moving forward, the Preservation Hall Foundation is focusing its attention towards caring for our musicians and helping these master practitioners weather this crisis.

To that end, the Preservation Hall Foundation has launched the LEGACY EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND to assist the full Preservation Hall Musical Collective with medical expenses, lodging, food, and other vital living expenses due to illness or loss of work.

Please consider making a donation to help us provide grants of much-needed financial assistance to our treasured musicians as they navigate this crisis. Your gift will go directly towards assisting our Musical Collective with essential needs. If you are in a position to help, please donate to the Fund through the link below. We welcome and appreciate donations of any amount.

None of what we do is possible without our Musical Collective and our incredible community. We know times are hard and uncertain, but through it all, music endures.

Thank you all for your love and support!
 
Sincerely,

The Preservation Hall Foundation Board and Staff

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Wed, 10/14/2020 - 4:13 pm

Six incredible Preservation Hall musicians will be honored as Master Practitioners and inducted into the Preservation Hall Foundation Legacy Program during the fourth annual Legacy Awards later this month! We hope you’ll join us for a virtual musical celebration, live from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Youtube, on Wednesday, October 28 at 7 PM CT.

The Foundation’s Legacy Program was originally established in 2015 to reflect the values and practices from Preservation Hall’s history: providing tangible support to elder musicians, ensuring our culture bearers are honored, and that their enduring contributions are celebrated and rewarded for many generations to come.

As we await the day when we can see these musicians perform in person again, we are honored to tell the incredible stories of our six 2020 Master Practitioners:

Kerry Brown

Wendell Brunious

Roger Lewis

Richard Moten

Steve Pistorius

Gregg Stafford

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 7:54 am

The full one-hour Preservation Hall Foundation Legacy Awards stream is still available on the Preservation Hall Jazz Band YouTube channel! You can subscribe and watch for free through the buttons below.

From musical conversations with esteemed honorees to intimate performances with Charlie Gabriel, Ben Jaffe and Rickie Monie, this year's virtual ceremony honoring the six 2020 Preservation Hall Foundation Legacy Program inductees was truly one for the books.

Sat, 04/17/2021 - 3:03 pm

As we await the joyous return of live music at Preservation Hall, please join us for 'Round Midnight Preserves – a two-night virtual concert and fundraiser streaming live from 726 St. Peter street, with special guests Durand Jones and Ivan Neville.

Donations made during both nightly streams will support the Preservation Hall Foundation and our efforts to protect, preserve and perpetuate New Orleans music and culture.

Tune in for free on the Relix Twitch channel starting at 9PM CT on Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1. You can subscribe to the channel, RSVP on Facebook and watch the stream live through the buttons below.

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Friday, April 30 + Saturday, May 1

9pm Central

Live from Preservation Hall

Fri, 07/09/2021 - 4:50 pm

We invite you to join us in celebrating Preservation Hall's 60th Anniversary at an extraordinary benefit concert in New Orleans this fall, featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, renowned members of the Preservation Hall collective, and spectacular special guests. Ticket prices and VIP package information coming soon!

All net proceeds will benefit the Preservation Hall Foundation.

This will be an evening for the ages – don't miss it! 

Preservation Hall's 60th Anniversary Concert

Friday, October 8, 2021 at 9pm

The Orpheum, New Orleans

Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:31 pm

We are pleased to announce that Preservation Hall will re-open this Thursday for the first time since Hurricane Ida. To join us for this special evening of New Orleans music, you can make a reservation at preservationhall.com/calendar.

As communities begin to rebuild and heal, we are reminded that this music is truly a vehicle for joy, no matter the circumstances.

Please consider supporting the Preservation Hall Foundation Musician's Emergency Relief Fund. Donations of any size will enable the Foundation to continue emergency financial support to the musicians of the Preservation Hall collective.

To donate, please text PRESERVATION to 707070 or visit donate.preshallfoundation.org.

Tue, 01/18/2022 - 1:24 pm

Charlie Gabriel's first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band just then also included a young Charles Mingus, later spending nine years with a group led by Cab Calloway drummer, J.C. Heard.

While he’s also fronted a bebop quintet, played and/or toured with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Aretha Franklin and many more, this is the first time since 1990 his name will appear on the front of a record, as a bandleader.

Since 2006, Mr. Gabriel has been a senior member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and has developed a tight musical relationship with bassist and tuba player Ben Jaffe. They, along with guitarist Joshua Starkman, recorded the new album throughout 2020 and 2021.

The album features the highlights “I’m Confessin’” and ”The Darker It Gets,” available now, alongside the forthcoming tracks to include six jazz standards and two originals. Charlie describes the repertoire of “Stardust,” “I’m Confessin’,” and “Three Little Words,” as “standard material that every musician, if they’re an older musician like myself, will have played throughout their career. Every time I play one of these tunes the interpretation is a little bit different.”

We could not be more thrilled for Mr. Gabriel on this momentous release. You can listen to his first two singles, pre-order '89' and watch the video for "I'm Confessin'" here.

Tue, 02/15/2022 - 10:36 am

Following the second Friday of Jazz Fest's joyful return, we hope you'll join us for a long-awaited musical celebration marking 60 years of Preservation Hall, benefiting the Preservation Hall Foundation.

Alongside the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and renowned members of the Preservation Hall collective, special guests will help us celebrate the return of music to the streets of New Orleans.

Proceeds from this event will support Preservation Hall Foundation education programs like Preservation Hall Lessons, archival projects and support for elder musicians.

General admission tickets and VIP packages benefiting the Foundation are on sale now. We can't wait to celebrate with you all.

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Tue, 07/26/2022 - 10:11 am

While gigs were cancelled and the gates to Preservation Hall remained closed due to the pandemic, Charlie Gabriel was hard at work: practicing, recording, and healing through music.

Recorded in New Orleans at the Preservation Hall studio over 2020 and 2021, 89 is a celebration of Mr. Gabriel's nearly eight decades as a professional musician – a role he has nursed since first performing with New Orleans' Eureka Brass Band at 11 years old.

"The songs on the record have been important in making me the type of person I am today. I’ve lived just about all of these songs from the time when I was a young boy until now. ‘Memories of You’ is a Eubie Blake song I remember doing at my house with my father. ‘Chelsea Bridge’ is another one that we also did a little later on. ‘Stardust’ makes me think of Mr. Louis Cottrell. He played in the Sidney Desvigne Band—they were a big band with 17 pieces, like the Count Basie band or the Duke Ellington band. Mr. Cottrell played clarinet in that band, and it stayed with me all my life. ‘Three Little Words’ was another one of the things that my father liked to do, so I’ve fooled with that one quite a bit over the years."