When musical traditions aren’t fostered in young people, the tradition becomes either obscure or “historic.” That’s sort of what’s happened to New Orleans rhythm & blues, the kind of “New Orleans ...
Fats Domino lost his sprawling yellow-and-white house in Hurricane Katrina and with it, the keepsakes of an extraordinary career that took him from New Orleans honky-tonks to worldwide hitmaker. When ...
Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr., the pianist, singer and lifelong New Orleanian who was among the most successful but also the most modest of rock ’n' roll's founding fathers, died Tuesday at his home in ...
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans street where one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life is being renamed in his honor. A community-wide Second line and Musical Celebration begins at 11 ...
To some, the white Steinway grand piano that sat on a stage in the Old U.S. Mint on Thursday afternoon might be just another piano. For the Louisiana State Museum and the family of Fats Domino it is a ...
When a friend of Fats Domino‘s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a ...
Bear Family Records is releasing a new box set, I’ve Been Around, which offers access to 312 tracks from the New Orleans singer-pianist Fats Domino. The set includes Domino’s work with Imperial ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans street where one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life is being renamed in his honor. A community-wide Second line and Musical Celebration begins ...
NEW ORLEANS - Workers have recovered what was left of three pianos from Fats Domino's 9th Ward home, which was submerged in almost 10 feet of water when Hurricane Katrina caused a break in a levee ...
Fats Domino, born and raised in New Orleans, was surrounded by music as a child. “New Orleans produces a disproportionately large amount of talented musicians and it really comes up with the raw ...
A celebration will be held on the Lower 9th Ward street where Domino lived. A New Orleans street is being renamed in honor of music pioneer Antoine "Fats" Domino whose first record, "The Fat Man," ...