Join us for a free event inside Good Measure with Justin Donovan!
He brings a fresh approach to New Orleans music through his innovative hybrid guitar style, layering basslines, melody, and soulful vocals into one seamless performance. Influenced by jazz, blues, and classic American rhythm traditions, his sound is timeless and distinctly his own.
Good 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.
Join us for a free event inside Good Measure with Justin Donovan!
He brings a fresh approach to New Orleans music through his innovative hybrid guitar style, layering basslines, melody, and soulful vocals into one seamless performance. Influenced by jazz, blues, and classic American rhythm traditions, his sound is timeless and distinctly his own.
Good 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.
Join us for a free event inside Good Measure with Justin Donovan!
He brings a fresh approach to New Orleans music through his innovative hybrid guitar style, layering basslines, melody, and soulful vocals into one seamless performance. Influenced by jazz, blues, and classic American rhythm traditions, his sound is timeless and distinctly his own.
Brass 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!
Featuring 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!
Victor 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!
Chloé 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.
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James 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.
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The 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.
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95MP is a New Orleans live drum and bass duo — drummer Peter Varnado and bassist Miles Hancock — whose recent Marigny Tapes sessions brought the project widespread attention. Varnado is a NOCCA and University of New Orleans graduate, Director of Applied Music at Tulane, and one of the most sought-after drummers in the city, with credits including Nicholas Payton, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Ellis Marsalis, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Hancock is a bassist, composer, and producer whose work spans contemporary jazz, funk, and electronic music, and who leads the avant-garde jazz and funk group Loose Willis. Together they blend traditional New Orleans roots with trip-hop, rumba clave, and drum and bass influences. 95MP released their debut EP Excursion in September 2025.
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