Name: Erica Falls
Start: 2026-08-01T21:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Good Measure

July 2026
Yusa

July 23 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Yusa is a Havana-born guitarist, vocalist, tres player, and composer who relocated to New Orleans in 2020 and has since become one of the city's most distinctive musical voices. She was a founding bandleader of Cuban ensembles Interactivo and Quasi Jazz, and is regarded internationally as an ambassador of 21st-century Cuban music, a description earned through nominations at the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards and collaborations with artists including Omara Portuondo and Deacon John. Her sound blends trova, son, jazz, pop, and Brazilian rhythms into something that resists easy categorization. She holds a residency at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro and has performed on the Acura Stage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

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Very Cherry

July 24 @ 9:00 pm - July 25 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Very Cherry is a New Orleans duo described as a "genre-melting rave jazz symphony," saxophonist, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist David Polk alongside drummer Simon Lott, two musicians who have been collaborating for over twenty years. Their sets layer live saxophone, classical piano, and electric guitar over fully original EDM compositions, drawing from jazz, classical, hip-hop, Latin music, and whatever else serves the moment. The result is a live experience built on the tension between composition and improvisation, and one that consistently ends with people dancing.

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Smoker’s World

July 25 @ 9:00 pm - July 26 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Smoker's World is the most personal and experimental project of Derrick "Smoker" Freeman, the New Orleans drummer, songwriter, and DJ who also leads the Soul Brass Band. Where that group operates within the brass band tradition, Smoker's World is Freeman's creative laboratory: hip-hop grooves, funk, pop, and the deep New Orleans jazz foundation, filtered through social commentary, cheeky lyricism, and the energy of a full horn line that can shift gears without warning. Freeman describes it as the anchor of all his musical pursuits, built around a rotating cast of the city's most versatile jazz musicians. Their 2022 album WhiteSplain, which transforms pandemic-era political chaos into danceable tracks, earned wide attention for its balance of consciousness and fun.

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Benjamin Cousins Trio

July 30 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

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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Mahmoud Chouki

July 31 @ 9:00 pm - August 1 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

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.

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August 2026
Erica Falls

August 1 @ 9:00 pm - August 2 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

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 Houston, 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.

Entry is free, join us in Good Measure.

July 2026

Yusa

Very Cherry

Smoker’s World

Benjamin Cousins Trio

Mahmoud Chouki

August 2026

Erica Falls

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