Events for December 5, 2026

Victor Campbell & Timba Swamp is a Cuban timba dance band led by pianist Victor Campbell. Timba is a high-intensity, polyrhythmic style of Cuban dance music, and Campbell comes to it firsthand, having played with the legendary Cuban timba orchestras of Isaac Delgado, Alain Pérez, and Habana D’Primera before settling in New Orleans in 2019.

Trained at Cuba’s National School of the Arts, Campbell is a pianist of unusual range. Chucho Valdes, the legendary Cuban pianist, predicted he would revolutionize Cuban jazz piano, and Campbell has also contributed to the soundtrack of the film Sinners, which went on to Oscar recognition. The band has brought its Cuban dance party to Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and to Wednesday at the Square alongside the Lost Bayou Ramblers. Tonight’s late set is made for dancing.

Deltaphonic is a New Orleans band that pairs Southern rock and Hill Country blues with the funk and soul of their adopted city, a blend of the raw and soulful sounds that flow down the Mississippi. Founder Andrew Weekes anchors the band with his songwriting, joined by Trenton O'Neal, a two-time Grammy nominee on drums and vocals, and guitarists Paul Provosty and Logan Sellers. They settled on this lineup in 2021 after leaving New Orleans to record an EP on the coast of Ecuador, buying motorcycles and dubbing themselves "the southernmost Southern rock band" along the way. Their 2020 album The Funk, the Soul & the Holy Groove defined their sound, and they have since toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe. Now they are releasing a new single every other month from an upcoming album that adds New Orleans brass band arrangements to their blues rock, retro soul, and funk, made possible in part by a grant from the Threadhead Cultural Foundation.