DJ Jess- Wednesday After the Square
Join us inside the Lobby at The Barnett for our Wednesday After the Square, the official Afterparty location for YLC's Wednesday at the Square. Entry is free!
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Erica Falls
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesJoin us for a free show featuring Nola vocalist Erica Falls!
Vocalist and songwriter Erica Falls brings a rich, expressive voice rooted in the soul tradition of New Orleans, shaped by influences including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Whitney Houseton, Stevie Wonder, and Nina Simone.
Raised in the city's 9th Ward, her sound draws from classic soul while remaining firmly grounded in the present. Falls has performed and recorded with Allen Toussaint, No Doubt, Sting, Dr. John, Jennifer Hudson, and John Fogerty, and spent several years as lead vocalist for Galactic. In 2013, she was hand-picked by Lee Daniels to star in the lead singing role of the award-winning film Lee Daniels The Butler.
Her solo work — including the album HomeGrown — highlights her strengths as a vocalist, songwriter, and arranger within the modern soul and R&B landscape. A two-time "Best Female Vocalist" winner from OffBeat Magazine, Falls brings a commanding stage presence and emotional depth to every performance. As she says, “Vintage soul is not about bringing the listener back to a time of authentic music, it’s about reminding them that it never went anywhere.”
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SOUL Brass Band
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesJoin us for a free show featuring the high energy SOUL Brass Band!
SOUL Brass Band is a modern New Orleans brass ensemble led by drummer, vocalist, and bandleader Derrick Freeman, whose work bridges the city's deep-rooted traditions with a forward-looking sound.
Drawing from the lineage of second line culture, the band blends classic brass band instrumentation with elements of funk, hip-hop, and soul. Their performances move fluidly between tightly arranged horn lines, improvisation, and rhythmic interplay — reflecting the evolving language of New Orleans street music.
Under Freeman's direction, Soul Brass Band has appeared at major international festivals including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Telluride Jazz Festival. The group features some of the city's most accomplished players, including Billboard-charting saxophonist James Martin and Grammy Award–winning tubist Miles Lyons.
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ANTWIGADEE! -Wednesday After the Square
Lobby 600 Carondelet, New Orleans, United StatesJoin us inside the Lobby at The Barnett for our Wednesday After the Square, the official Afterparty location for YLC's Wednesday at the Square. Entry is free!
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Benjamin Cousins and the Sonic Architects
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesGood Measure presents a night of Brass & Strings, featuring local band Benjamin Cousins and the Sonic Architects. Join us for a free show on May 22 from 8-10 pm.
Clarinetist and composer Benjamin Cousins leads The Sonic Architects through a blend of modern jazz and atmospheric storytelling. Rooted in New Orleans tradition yet pushing into new territory, the ensemble creates layered, immersive soundscapes. Expect a thoughtful, transportive set that feels both grounded and forward-looking.
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Jamil Sharif Trio
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesGood Measure presents a night of Brass & Strings, featuring seasoned musician Jamil Sharif. Join us for a free show from 8-10 pm.
Trumpeter and vocalist Jamil Sharif brings a soulful approach to traditional New Orleans jazz. With a career spanning global stages and collaborations with legendary artists, his sound is refined and deeply expressive. His jazz trio brings a polished, heartfelt performance to the Good Measure stage, rooted in the spirit of the city.
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Brass Tyrannosaurus
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesBrass Tyrannosaurus — known around town as Brass T-Rex — is an eight-piece brass fusion band rooted in New Orleans. Their sound starts with the city's brass tradition and pulls in afrobeat, funk, post-rock, hip-hop, and synthesizer elements that give the band a distinctly contemporary edge. The result is the energy of a street parade with a lot more going on underneath it.
Standing room for this show, limited seating available. Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!
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Mahmoud Chouki
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesFeaturing Noah Young, Alfred Jordan Jr. and Sam Kuslan.
Mahmoud Chouki is a Moroccan-born master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has made New Orleans his home and his sounding board. His compositions draw on an unusually wide range of traditions — Andalusian and North African music, Levantine strings, Latin American rhythms, European classical training, and New Orleans jazz — woven together into something that feels like a genuine musical dialogue rather than a fusion exercise.
Chouki serves as music curator for the New Orleans Museum of Art, where his site-specific performance series Safar explored how music can speak across cultural divides. He composed the score for Ma Belle, Ma Beauty, which won at the Sundance Film Festival, and was named Best Emerging Artist by OffBeat Magazine. As artistic director of Rencontre Orient-Occident in Switzerland, he has built a career around bringing international musicians into conversation — with New Orleans, and with each other.
Seating is available on first come, first serve basis. Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!
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Victor Campbell
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesVictor Campbell is a pianist from Camagüey, Cuba, whose playing moves fluently between Cuban jazz, timba, classical technique, and the New Orleans musical vocabulary he has spent years absorbing since moving to the city in 2019. He trained at Cuba's National School of the Arts and first came to New Orleans in 2012 through the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp — a visit that, in his own words, changed his life.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum describes him as moving effortlessly between a blues solo, a Cuban timba montuno, and a classical selection within the same set. Chucho Valdés, the legendary Cuban pianist, predicted in 2019 that Campbell would revolutionize Cuban jazz piano. He has since performed with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, contributed to the soundtrack of the film Sinners — which went on to Oscar recognition — and become one of the most talked-about young musicians in the city.
Seating is available on first come, first serve basis. Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!
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Chloé Marie
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesChloé Marie is a Baton Rouge-born singer-songwriter and guitarist now based in New Orleans, working in the Black Americana tradition — folk, roots, and soul built around a rich, expressive voice. She came up performing in choirs and musical theatre before fronting Baton Rouge band Alabaster Stag, which opened for Big Freedia, Tank and the Bangas, Flow Tribe, and GIVERS. She has since relocated to New Orleans to develop her solo work, releasing the 2023 record I Guess It’s Just Me Now. A featured performer at the BlackAmericana Fest alongside Joy Clark, Leyla McCalla, and Mia Borders, she occupies a distinct space in the city’s growing Americana scene.
Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!
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James Jordan Sextet feat. Zahria Sims
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesJames Jordan is a New Orleans vocalist whose sound moves across R&B, funk, blues, and swing — a range that reflects the breadth of the city’s musical tradition. A rising presence in the local music scene, he is a recipient of the Sarah I. Nadler Memorial Award in Music. His band, James Jordan and the Situation, released their first album of original material, Reflections, earlier this year, and in May 2026, made their debut performance in the WWOZ Jazz Tent at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Tonight, Jordan is joined by saxophonist and bandleader Zahria Sims for a special performance. A Baton Rouge native now rooted in New Orleans, Sims founded the Zahria Sims Collective in 2019 and has since built a reputation as one of the city’s most compelling young voices in jazz, funk, and soul. She has opened for Kenny Garrett and Arturo Sandoval, recorded with Nicholas Payton, and performed at the New Orleans Jazz Museum — all before releasing her debut EP in 2025.
Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!
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The Desert Nudes
Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesThe Desert Nudes are a New Orleans trio bringing impeccable vocal harmonies and a well-developed sense of humor to cowboy songs, classic country, and roots rock. The band — J.P. Carmody, bassist and vocalist Dave Pomerleau of Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, and multi-instrumentalist Andre Bohren, a classical pianist and longtime drummer for Johnny Sketch — formed during the pandemic while together in the Western desert, in conditions that may have inspired the name.
Their debut record, Keep A-Movin’, Dan: Songs of Hydration, Vigor, Horses, and Wide Open Spaces, earned immediate local acclaim and led to performances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Bayou Boogaloo, and venues from Florida to the Rocky Mountain states. They call Marty Robbins their patron saint.
Entry is free, join us at Good Measure!