French countryside retreat - www.paradisvert.net
Interested in all things Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, Blues, Jazz, Cajun, Zydeco, Voodoo or Hoodoo? Check these sites out:
New Orleans & Louisiana:
Our neighborhood (includes self-guided walking tours to download) - Algiers Historical Society - www.algiershistoricalsociety.org
Our neighborhood - local businesses including the Crown & Anchor English Pub, on the next block (www.crownanchor.com) - Algiers Point Association - www.algierspoint.org
Forthcoming Events - www.neworleansonline.com/calendar
New Orleans News & Times-Picayune Newspaper - www.nola.com
New Orleans & Louisiana Music Magazine - www.offbeat.com
New Orleans Magazine - http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/
Louisiana Life Magazine - http://www.myneworleans.com/Louisiana-Life/
Louisiana Cookin’ Magazine - http://www.louisianacookin.com/
Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine - http://www.leh.org/html/lcv.html
Louisiana Film & Video Magazine - http://www.louisianafilmandvideo.com/mainLM.php
Louisiana Game & Fish Magazine - http://www.lagameandfish.com/
Louisiana Wetlands - National Geographic Magazine - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html
America’s Wetlands: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana - www.americaswetland.com
Louisiana Wildlife Federation - http://www.lawildlifefed.org/
Voice of the Wetlands - Tab Benoit’s Organization - http://www.voiceofthewetlands.org/
Tab Benoit - http://www.tabbenoit.com/
The New Orleans Levee (We don’t hold anything back) Satirical Magazine - http://www.nolevee.com/
Weekly New Orleans Magazine: the arts, movies, music, restaurant guide, etc. - www.gambit-no.com
Where Y’At Magazine - http://www.whereyat.com/
Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras Guide - http://mardigrasneworleans.com/arthur/
New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau - www.nawlins.com
New Orleans Museum of Art - www.noma.org/
New Orleans Saints Football Team - www.neworleanssaints.com
New Orleans Hornets Basketball Team - www.nba.com/hornets
Creole & Cajun Spices, perishable food products - www.cajunwholesale.com
New Orleans Public Library - www.nutrias.org
Everything Cajun - www.louisianacajun.com
City of Gretna – www.gretnala.com
State Library of Louisiana - www.state.lib.la.us
Historic New Orleans Collection - www.hnoc.org
Bicycle Rental Tours - www.confederacyofcruisers.com
Free Walking Tours! - www.freetoursbyfoot.com
Music Festivals:
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - www.nojazzfest.com
French Quarter Festival “The biggest free music festival in the South!”- www.fqfi.org
Satchmo Festival - www.satchmosummerfest.com
New Orleans DDD Free Concerts, April-June - www.wednesdayatthesquare.com
Ponderosa Stomp - www.ponderosastomp.com
Wednesday’s On The Point - Free Evening Concerts through June & July - www.wednesdaysonthepoint.com
Old Algiers Riverfest - first weekend in April - www.oldalgiersmainstreet.com
Calendar of Upcoming Events & Music Festivals, 2009 -2010
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/events.html
Gretna Back To The River Fall Concerts - www.gretnala.com
Gretna Heritage Festival - http://www.gretnafest.com/schedule.php
Northern Germany - Eutin Blues Festival - www.bluesfest-eutin.de
Music: Blues, Jazz and Rock & Roll:
WWOZ Radio Station over the Internet - www.wwoz.org or 90.7 FM
Joe Cushley playing “13 Bar Blues” and “Nu-Blues” on “Balling The Jack,” Tuesdays - www.resonancefm.com
Andy Kershaw's World Music Show - www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/andykershaw.shtml
Blues & Jazz on the Blues Highway - www.rootsofrhythm.com
Louisiana CDs, DVDs, vinyl, books - www.louisianamusicfactory.com
Hogan Jazz Archive - www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html
Tom Morgan's great Jazz Site with good links - www.jass.com
Early Blues Recordings - www.earlyblues.com
Jazz Band Histories, 1895-1929 - www.redhotjazz.com
Blues Lyrics/Voodoo & Hoodoo - www.luckymojo.com/allblues.html
Old Time Victrola Music - www.earlyrecordings.com
20 Great Blues Makers - www.thebluehighway.com
Traditional Jazz & Ragtime Magazine - www.mississippirag.com
Louisiana Music Archive & Artist Directory - www.satchmo.com/index2.html
Jazz History, Lyrics & Bios - www.perfessorbill.com
"The Rise and Fall of Popular Music" by Donald Clarke - http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/index.php
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation - www.nojhf.org
Rockabilly Hall of Fame - www.rockabillyhall.com
Rock Before Elvis - www.hoyhoy.com
Blues - www.t4p.com/blues/
Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine - www.bigcitybluesmag.com
Living Blues Magazine - www.livingblues.com
Blues & Rhythm Magazine - http://www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk/about.html
The Blues Foundation - http://www.blues.org/
Zydeco & Cajun Music - http://home.comcast.net/~cajunzydeco/zydemagic/
Just Jazz Magazine - http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzworld/justjazz.htm
Worldwide Roots Music - www.frootsmag.com
World Music - http://www.globalrhythm.net/
British Music Hall - http://www.musicals101.com/musichall.htm
The British Music Hall Society - http://www.music-hall-society.com/
Old Timey Music - http://www.oldtimeherald.org/
Folk Music magazines - http://www.folklib.net/index/periodicals.shtml
Mississippi: The Heart of the The Blues Highway:
www.shackupinn - Accommodation in a cotton picker's shack or the Cotton Gin Inn, Clarksdale, Mississippi, deep in the heart of Blues country.
www.visitthedelta.com
www.MississippiDeltaBluesInfo.com
www.birthplaceoftheblues.com
www.blueshighway.org
www.cathead.biz
* Please check out the bibliography section for books on all of the above!
Family History:
East of London Family History Society - www.eolfhs.org.uk
The East London History Society - http://www.mernick.org.uk//elhs/
Victorian London A-Z Street Index - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/lon-str.html#HOME
Canning Town (East London) - http://apps.newham.gov.uk/History_canningtown/index.htm
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
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London Borough of Newham Archives - http://www.newham.gov.uk/Services/LibraryDetails/AboutUs/StratfordLibrary.htm
London Borough of Havering - A History of Romford - http://www.havering.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7989
Berkshire (England) Family History Society - www.berksfhs.org.uk
Terrebonne Parish (Louisiana, U.S.A.) Genealogical Society - www.terrebonneparish.com/geneal.htm
Acadian-Cajun History - www.acadian-cajun.com
Cajuns - www.thecajuns.com
Cajuns - http://www.cajuncrawfishpie.com/cajun-history.html
Cajuns - http://www.acadianawakenings.com/vol1.html
Miscellaneous sites:
Sandbach under 9’s Rugby Union Football Club - www.sandbachrufc.co.uk
West Ham United Football Club - www.whufc.com
England Football Team - www.thefa.com/England
England Rugby Team - www.england-rugby.com
Ireland Football Team - www.fai.ie
Germany Football Team - http://germanfootballteam.blogspot.com (in English)
United States Soccer Team - www.ussoccer.com
