Keith Spera
Music Writer| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Music Writer at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
I write about New Orleans music, culture & my kids for The Times-Picayune | https://t.co/Ta3H9xYbm8 and host WLAE-TV's 'Let's Talk w/ Keith Spera.' Insta: keithsperawrites
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nola.com | Keith Spera
Live music highlights in New Orleans for the first full week of June include an Italian opera/pop star and a genre-blending classical/contemporary orchestra from Atlanta. TUESDAY, SMOOTHIE KING CENTERClassical music and opera don’t typically fill arenas. Bocelli’s mass appeal stems largely from his crossover projects.
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nola.com | Keith Spera
Andrea Bocelli didn’t perform in New Orleans until he was 30 years into his career. He’s not waiting nearly so long for his encore. The operatic-pop Italian headlines the Smoothie King Center on Tuesday. That’s little more than two years after he filled the same venue for his New Orleans debut on Feb. 11, 2023. To make it to New Orleans this time around, he’ll log a considerable commute. He’s scheduled to perform in Wroclaw, Poland, on Sunday night.
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nola.com | Keith Spera
Sally-Ann Roberts always looks for the light. During her 26 years of co-anchoring the “Eyewitness Morning News” alongside the late Eric Paulsen, she always sought positivity, even in the toughest of times. She inherited that philosophy from her mother, the former Lucimarian “Lucy” Tolliver. How Lucimarian learned that lesson is the subject of “Lucy Sings on Lucy Street,” a new children’s book by Sally-Ann Roberts and her brother Lawrence “Butch” Roberts.
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nola.com | Keith Spera
Tarriona “Tank” Ball of New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas waited years to get her first Grammy Award. Thanks to a delivery screw-up, she then had to wait a little longer. Tank and the Bangas, a joyous, decidedly contemporary mash-up of R&B, funk, hip-hop and spoken word, earned a Best New Artist nomination at the 62nd Grammy Awards in 2020. The band's "Red Balloon" was nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 65th Grammy Awards.
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nola.com | Keith Spera
Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New Orleans, died May 23 following a long illness. She was 75. The fourth oldest of 10 siblings, she hailed from an extended family of singers and musicians, including younger brother John Boutté and niece Arsene DeLay. She and her siblings grew up in a brick house on Derbigny Street in the Treme neighborhood. As a child, Lillian sang in a choir.
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