It's New Orleans: Milo's Music Parlor

Originally from Virginia, Alexandra Scott and her dog Jackson have dipped in and out of New Orleans since 2000. In 2008 Alexandra claimed the city as home for herself, Jackson, and what she calls her dream a billy music. In this edition of Milo's Music Parlor Alexandra talks about her pioneering role in the 21st

You may know her as the head rose of Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, one of New Orleans' pre eminent interpreters and performers of traditional New Orleans jazz music. As if that wasn't enough, Aurora performs in at least three other bands, and a score of other musical projects, often including international musicians from as far flung places as Pakistan and India. She's also written and directed three theatre pieces, and has studied with composers from Oberlin to Paris. Oh, and don't forget the

Even in a town like New Orleans where life is often lived in public on the street and stoop, singer songwriter Kelcy Mae's heart is on her sleeve. And in her adopted city. At prestigious festivals across the country and in more intimate gigs at home, Kelcy's lyrics reveal her background as a published poet as Kelcy Wilburn and her melodies come from a blend of genetic Americana and church growing up in rural Shreveport Louisiana singing hymns. A long way from church, in this edition of Milo's Music Parlor, Kelcy tells Kim about the drama that seems to open up before her and naturally cry out for her pen and voice like moving to New Orleans, falling in love and finding herself living on the same block as a murder.

If you re looking for that high lonesome sound, you can look no higher than the hills of Alaska, the home of Todd Grebe and Cold Country. After a healthy musical career with the national touring, Nashville based, Alaskan act Bearfoot, band members Angela Oudean and Todd Grebe returned home to Alaska to make more music and a baby in their country music project, Todd Grebe and Cold Country. In this episode of Milo s Music Parlor we catch them on a sojourn to the Big Easy and not even a hurricane could stop them from their trip here. Listen to them chat about everything from writing songs to what they love about New Orleans brassbands.

For New Jersey native Alex McMurray, it was NOT love at first sight when he moved to New Orleans 28 years ago. But like many of us, he learned to love it, and found himself returning from New York after Katrina, even AFTER realizing "You have to be crazy to live in this Town", an idea that became the title of one of his post Katrina songs. His music can be described as lyrical and imaginative what you might hear if Elvis Costello and Randy Newman had a child together, but with distinct New Orleans flair and songwriting edge of his very own. An amazing multi tasker, Alex shares stories of his college days at Tulane, to singing sea chanties in Tokyo s Disneyland dressed up like Captain Crunch.

You don't have to go to far out of New Orleans city limits to run into small town Louisiana and the music that it incubates.

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As you may have discerned in your own musical ramblings, or if you don t live here auditory samplings, around New Orleans, there s something musically here for everybody. If you need any proof of this, look and listen no further. Ladies, and gentlemen, Mahala. On this episode of Milo s Music Parlor, Matt Schreiber shares his experience traveling and studying Eastern European music, Romani commonly referred to as Gypsy music, and the differences between the two. The education doesn't stop there. The accordion guitar drum trio educate us on what it means to be Bulgarian in

Lovers of Americana music can go no further South than Melbourne, Australia, the home base of the Americana band Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes.

With an international upbringing in far flung places like Singapore, Belgium, Helen eventually landed in New Orleans where she finished a master's degree in the cello at UNO. Though classically trained, she quickly found a musical route of her own where she weaves French chansons, avant guard compositions, and loop pedal symphonies all together. Listen to her tell all on Milo's Music Parlor including the secrets of hugging a cello, and how her cello and punk music became friends. Better yet, you get to listen to her music.

One of New Orleans longest Americana Country act at ten years,