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Benjamin Cousins is a New Orleans clarinetist and composer whose playing sits at the intersection of the city's deep jazz tradition and a thoroughly modern compositional sensibility. He grew up in New Orleans, studied under Gregory Agid at NOCCA, earned his undergraduate degree at Berklee College of Music, and his master's at Temple University, and performed with NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison Jr.'s Next Generation groups at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. His band, the Sonic Architects, released their debut album What We Dream It to Be in January 2026, which was awarded a Community Partnership Grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. Tonight they perform in a trio configuration, putting Cousins' warm, woody tone and improvisational voice front and center.

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Sarah Quintana is a New Orleans singer-songwriter and guitarist who moves fluidly between folk, jazz, Cajun, and French stylings, drawing on a career that spans street performance in southern France, residencies in New Orleans jazz clubs, and collaborations across Louisiana's musical traditions. A NOCCA and Loyola University graduate, she has worked alongside Grammy winners Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil, Leyla McCalla, and Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers. Her 2025 album Baby Don't, recorded at Dockside Studios in Lafayette and Marigny Studios in New Orleans, draws on the rhythm and blues of 1950s and 60s Louisiana with an all-star cast including Rex Gregory, Grammy-nominated Corey Ledet, and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla.

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Zehrin Sims is a Sacramento-born drummer and songwriter who relocated to New Orleans to study Jazz Studies and Performance, and has been an active force in the city's music scene since 2022. A versatile percussionist whose credits include Stephen Walker's Big Easy Brass Walkers, Kid Merv & All That Jazz, and Trumpet Mafia, Sims is the cousin of saxophonist and bandleader Zahria Sims. His debut album of original music is scheduled for release in summer 2026.

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Evan Oberla is a New Orleans trombonist, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and composer who graduated with a degree in jazz trombone from Ohio State University before building a career across jazz, funk, pop, and avant-garde music. A member of Flow Tribe, Oberla has shared the stage and studio with Kamasi Washington, Wyclef Jean, Elle King, and Spoon. His latest album Canal Street Revolution is a double LP of original compositions based on first-person historical accounts of the New Orleans Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and beyond.

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Founded in 2004 by six New Orleans high school friends and revived in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Flow Tribe has spent two decades playing what they call "backbone-cracking music" -- a high-energy blend of funk, rock, R&B, hip-hop, and New Orleans rhythm. Main stage veterans at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Voodoo Music Experience, the band's 2017 album Boss, produced by Mannie Fresh, reached No. 58 on the Billboard R&B chart. Their 2024 release Garden of Earthly Delights features Ivan Neville of Dumpstahphunk on the lead single.

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Saskia Says! is the band of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Saskia Walker, an Italian, British, and American musician who came to New Orleans in 2019 to study at Loyola University and has made the city her home. Drawing from classic jazz, swing, funk, soul, and Latin music, Walker developed her sound through a wide range of musical environments, from a jazz-Latin band in Rome to a psychedelic rock group during her college years. She has served as a resident performer with the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, and her debut album Love, a swing and Latin-infused record, was released at Sweet Lorraine's in New Orleans.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

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Gov't Majik is a New Orleans collective led by bassist and co-founder Bru Bruser and fronted by vocalist Ten Spencer. Self-described as "The Dirty South Afro-Beat Arkestra," the band blends the music of Fela Kuti and other Afrobeat and Afrofunk pioneers with the funk, jazz, rap, and rock and roll of New Orleans, landing somewhere between Fela, OutKast, and Kool & the Gang. Founded in 2005, the band made their Jazz Fest debut in 2007 and returned to the festival stage in 2026. Their 2023 EP The Bass Age features Parliament-Funkadelic saxophonist Greg Thomas.

Full bar on-site.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

Doors open at 9 pm. Join us in Good Measure. Come for the music. Stay for the night.