LUNDI GRAS at HOLY DIVER!! 🎡 This is gonna be a good one!! 🎉 LORETTE VELVETTE with MICHAEL HURTT AND THE NEW ORLEANS NIGHT HOWLERS, ROCKIN' DON WAYNE and special guest DJ MATTY! Doors at 8PM / $15 / 21+ @holydiverneworleans
Until this past October, Lorette Velvette had not played in New Orleans since the late eighties when her mesmerizing Memphis rock 'n' roll band the Hellcats scorched the city with a still-talked about appearance with Tav Falco's Panther Burns. Since then, she's become an otherworldy chanteuse of Southern song, her deeply Delta-inflected style ignited by trailblazers like hill country blues guitarist Jessie Mae Hemphill and Moon Records' rockabilly maven Cordell Jackson. Like a 21st Century Bobbie Gentry, her music is rooted in the vaguely familiar, yet defies simple categorization, with myriads of blues, country and gospel tributaries running through its strikingly soulful rock 'n' roll spirit. Be sure to burn this upcoming Lundi Gras appearance into your brains and calendars!!