Big Band music of the 30s, 40s and 50s will be fondly recalled by the audience on Friday, April 17, 2009 at the Fond du Lac Performing Arts Center, when the fabulous 16-piece Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra appears as the last performance of the 2008-09 five-concert season presented by the Fond du Lac Concert Association. The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra began in the spring of 1934 as the Dorsey Brothers
A major magazine's annual jazz awards poll used to incorporate a category called: “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition.” If there ever was an under-the-radar talent worthy of that award, trumpeter Bill Mobley (prounounced mobb-lee) is 2008's winner hands down.
A visibly more at-ease Les Miles mingled with the capacity crowd at Thursday’s Webster Parish LSU Alumni Association 25th Annual Luncheon and Golf Tournament at the Pine Hills Country Club.
Victims and Citizens Against Crime Inc. gathered Thursday night at The Balcony in Metairie for its 17th annual awards program. The event honors law enforcers, court officials and others who help crime victims and their families or work to improve the justice system.
Ronnie White SALTILLO – Ronald Lynn "Ronnie" White, 55, died Sunday, June 15, 2008, at his home in Saltillo. He was born Dec. 24, 1952, to Floyd Terrell White and Ethel Eva Vaughn Waldrup in West Point. He lived in West Point most of his life and in Saltillo for the past six months.
After years of backing up New Orleans legends such as Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Ernie K-Doe and Johnny Adams, guitarist-singer-songwriter Washington is a living encyclopedia
Editor's Note: The Advocate publishes honor rolls for sixth through 12th grades. Below are all A and the A and B honor roll students for the fifth and sixth six weeks and fourth nine-weeks grading periods. Schools not listed did not submit their honor rolls by deadline.