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Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:

Barbara Shorts Blue Jazz

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.