It’s been a whirlwind six months for Kermit Alphonso, known best to NEPA music fans for his work with The Collective. The hip-hop, soul and funk band — clearly the biggest such act to ever hail from ...

Kermit Ruffins posted on social media that he's recording a video for a new Saints song at his Mother In Law Lounge, 1500 N. Claiborne Ave. in Treme at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 23. You can be in it.

For more than 20 years, trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' weekly Thursday gig at Vaughan's in Bywater has served as a dependable, and popular, late-night music option. At Vaughan's and elsewhere, he embodied ...

In 2007, Kermit Ruffins got married in Woldenberg Park during the French Quarter Festival. As his beloved bride Juicee mounted the stage, Kermit and the fellas pointed their horns in her direction and ...

This record makes me think of something Tom Waits once said, “In New Orleans, music is like hot sauce. They put it on their food.” Yes, we do, and few things taste as good as trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, ...

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