Narrows Center for the Arts

Thursday, May 15, 2025 $25 Advance | $28 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm At the core of soul music is a vibrant, embracing spirit, one aimed at connecting the dots of humanity that reside on both sides of the microphone. “It doesn’t matter if there are 10 people in the audience or a 1,000,” says Jordan Anderson, lead singer/keyboardist for J & The Causeways. “It’s that sacrifice we make of our art, so that people can feel it that much harder the first time they hear you.” In a serendipitous sequence of events, J & The Causeways was formed at the legendary Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. A juggernaut soul/R&B ensemble, the group is filled with heavy backbeats and a soaring horn section, all swirling around the magnetic vocal stylings of Anderson. "We definitely shine live because each and every member of this band loves to be onstage and in that genuine moment of performance,” Anderson says. “New Orleans is home to some of the finest singers and musicians on the planet, which also means you have to bring your A-game to every single show — you’re representing this city and the long history of beautiful music […]

Saturday, May 17, 2025 $33 Advance | $35 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Jimmy Vivino: Although I’m proud to say I am currently a member of Blues Rock pioneers Canned Heat and co-producer of our latest release “Finyl Vinyl,” there’s just too much to list as far as played with this one played with that one. But in the end, I will list the people of importance pertaining to my growth as a musician. Yes, I’ve worked in every form of media in the business from Movies to TV to Broadway to Radio to Records to Concerts…all the way down to funky little clubs. After all, I always say “I’m just a Bluesman with a job.” Professor Louie & The Crowmatix: Grammy Nominated Professor Louie & The Crowmatix from Woodstock, NY have been expanding the borders of the Americana, Roots & Blues genres with Professor Louie’s stories, keyboard playing, singing and accordion Their repertoire continually expands with Crowmatix songs from their 18 Albums and songs Louie learned and helped create directly with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group “The Band”. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix are on tour throuhout 2025 performing their new recording Crowin’ Around on […]

Friday, May 30, 2025$30 Advance | $32 Day of ShowDoors 7pm | Show 8pmOpener: Tori Costa   Born in Furnas, Azores, Romeu Bairos envisioned his future in music from an early age. Influenced by his family’s close ties to Azorean musical culture, Bairos has been exploring a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Azorean songs, incorporating new instruments such as the “viola de dois corações” (traditional Azorean guitar). As a solo artist, he released the EP Cavalo Dado, where he experimented with songwriting and melodies, following the paths of artists like Portuguese singer-songwriter B Fachada. However, it was his participation in the national edition of Eurovision and his interpretation of Sandro G’s song “Eu Não Vou Chorar” that brought his music to wider national attention.   He released his first EP "Cavalo Dado" in 2019 and was a finalist in the Festival da Canção in 2021. He is part of the cast of the series "Rabo de Peixe," distributed by Netflix, in which he also participated in the soundtrack. His debut album “Romê das Furnas” will be released in February 2025.   Tori Costa: Infusing Luso folk influences with a classic pop/rock sound, Tori Costa is something along the lines of Carmen Miranda meets Stevie […]

Saturday, May 31, 2025 $50 Advance | $55 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm “Fifty years have passed in a flash,” says Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, songwriter and vocalist Marcia Ball of her long and storied career. Ball, the 2018 Texas State Musician Of The Year, has won worldwide fame and countless fans for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she takes the stage. Her rollicking Texas boogies, swampy New Orleans ballads and groove-laden Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music lovers all over the world. With each new release, her reputation as a profoundly soulful singer, a boundlessly talented pianist and a courageous, inventive songwriter continues to grow. Her love of the road has led to years of soul-satisfying performances at festivals, concert halls and clubs. The New York Times says, “Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky, knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time.” The Houston Chronicle says simply, “She’s as perfect as an artist can be.” With her new album, Shine Bright, Ball set out to, in her words, “Make the […]

Friday, June 6, 2025 $30 Advance | $32 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm “Sharing New Orleans with the world is my calling,” says pianist and organist John “Papa” Gros (pronounced  grow).“That's what I have been doing and that's what I’ll do with the rest of my life.” For over three decades, Gros has brought his city’s celebratory culture to listeners around the globe. Gros mixes all the sounds of New Orleans - funk, trad jazz, brass band, blues - and makes it his own signature gumbo. His new solo album Central City, shows Gros capturing New Orleans’ distinct feel-good charm with help from some of its’ most renowned players. Gros began playing gigs when he was just fifteen years old but didn’t truly kick off his career until after graduating from Loyola in 1989 with a degree in French Horn performance. During the seminal years that followed, the young man cut his teeth as a solo performer on Bourbon Street while also developing a reputation as a formidable sideman. He backed up some of the biggest names in the Crescent City,: such as Meters bassist George Porter Jr. and guitarist Snooks Eaglin. Between 2000 and 2013, Gros began his transition into […]

Saturday, June 7, 2025 $50 Advance | $52 Day of show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Legendary Blues guitarist Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018), most recently receiving the award on May 10, 2018, in Memphis. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut. In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape re-released in DVD format in 2005. Earl’s discography includes acclaimed albums on Stony Plain Records, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, won Downbeat Magazine’s Blues Album of the Year, and in 2004 Earl’s Hey José won the Best Blues/R&B Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards. In 2022, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrate 35 years as a band. The recent releases by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Spread the Love (2010), Just for Today (2013), and Good News (2014), Father’s Day (2015), Maxwell Street (2016), and The Luckiest Man (2017), Beyond The Blue Door (2019) and Rise Up (2020) all debuted […]

When Jeremie Albino was a teenager, he started busking around Toronto, setting up along the boardwalk or on a street corner downtown, wherever he thought he might find some passersby. “Usually nobody was listening,” he says, “but occasionally one or two people would tell me it sounded great. They had places to be and things to do, but they would stop and listen for a little while. That kind of interaction felt very special to me, and that’s when I realized I really do love performing. That’s when I realized I could hold a listener’s interest and give something back to them.” That experience set Albino on his path, and it showed him how much joy can be found in the simple act of connecting with a listener, whether it’s an entire crowd or just one person in that crowd. Since then, he has refined a vital and idiosyncratic mix of styles and sounds that are rooted in tradition but grasping toward the future: His songs are grounded in the gritty storytelling of classic country music, propelled by the rhythms of old-school R&B, played with the wild abandon of early rock ’n’ roll, and sung with the deep feeling of southern soul. Thanks to […]

Friday, June 27, 2025 $30 Advance | $32 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Award-winning vocalist, instrumentalist and songwriter Curtis Salgado, the man NPR calls “an icon” with “a huge voice,” is revered worldwide for his ability to wring every ounce of soul out of every song he performs. Salgado is famed not only for his powerhouse live shows and eleven previous albums, but also for his passionate and insightful original songs. He has been nominated three times for the Blues Music Award for Song Of The Year, winning in 2018 for Walk A Mile In My Blues from The Beautiful Lowdown. In total, he has won eleven Blues Music Awards, including the B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year. DownBeat calls his songwriting skills “an impressive gift.” Billboard says Salgado’s music is “inspired and powerful.” Now, Salgado is back with Fine By Me, the latest evidence of Salgado wielding his impressive songwriting and vocal skills to a wide variety of styles. His music has dashes of blues, gospel, R&B, jazz, funk, rock ’n’ roll and soul at any given moment. Salgado understands the power of clever turns of phrase and how that burrows into the hearts of his audience. On Fine By Me, he […]

Sunday, June 29, 2025 $87 Advance | $92 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Family has always been at the center of things for Los Lonely Boys. Henry, Jojo, and  Ringo Garza have been playing and touring together since they were teenagers. Three  years ago, they decided to take a break to focus on their own growing families. But  Summer 2022 saw them back at it again, returning to life on the road alongside The  Who. The Boys have been making music together for seventeen years now, and they  show no signs of slowing down or losing inspiration. Today, you’ll find them in the  studio, working on their newest album. The story of how the Garza brothers rode their bluesy “Texican rock & roll” sound from  San Angelo, Texas, to worldwide fame is one of rock’s great Cinderella tales. The three  young brothers formed a band, got signed to a major label, and had a hit single that  propelled them to stardom. They sold 2.5 million records, won a Grammy, and received  five more Grammy nominations in the span of their career. The sons of Enrique “Ringo” Garza Sr. are a second-generation sibling band; their dad  and his brothers played […]

Thursday, July 24, 2024 $45 Advance | $47 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm For over a decade and a half, Eric Hutchinson has been mastering the art of his unique, personal songwriting while exploring diverse musical genres like pop, soul, Americana, folk, alt-rock, and jazz. Known for his melodic pop song craftsmanship and witty, heartfelt lyrics that combine pop, rock, soul, and reggae, Eric is hitting the road in 2025 to perform all his most popular songs. An artist and songwriter who refuses to be pinned down to one musical genre or attitude with a diverse collection of songs, Eric Hutchinson continues to search to understand his place in the world and in 2025, the “Best” is yet to come…….

Friday, July 25, 2025 $45 Advance | $47 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Steve Forbert is a true American treasure, a fact underscored by his 21st album, Daylight Savings Time. Like all his albums of original songs, it’s suffused with what venerated rock journalist Robert Christgau discerned as his “omnivorously observant” songwriting, marked by Steve’s gift for finding the deeper meaning and magic within the spectrum of everyday moments, as well as his abundant melodic and poetic enchantment. As Forbert approaches the milestone of his 70th birthday, Daylight Savings Time contemplates and celebrates the proverbial ‘extra hour of daylight’ that comes with the time change. “Yeah to chirping crickets and to daylight savings time!” he sings on the album’s first single “Sound Existence,” “The best ain’t yet to come, but you could still get by just fine.” Steve arrived in New York City from his Meridian, Mississippi hometown in 1976. He slotted seamlessly into the “new folk” revival in such Manhattan clubs as Folk City, The Bitter End, and Kenny’s Castaways while taking the stage at CBGB, ground zero of the burgeoning new wave/punk movement. He also busked on the streets of Greenwich Village and in the elegant confines of Grand […]

Saturday, July 26, 2025 $50 Advance | $52 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm North Mississippi Allstars started by brother Luther and Cody Dickinson in 1996 as a loose collective of musicians from their North Mississippi home inspired by their father Jim Dickinson as well as neighbors and musical elders of their community; RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otha Turner and Fred McDowell. Luther’s first national tour was the RL Burnside Ass Pocket of Whiskey tour in 1997, selling out shows in the US and Canada. “Kenny Brown hired me to tour with RL and Cedric and showed me the ropes. That experience blew my mind. Cody and I have been on the road ever since.” NMA began touring in 1998 and over the years the touring lineup has included, Cedric, Duwayne and Garry Burnside, Chris Chew, Berry Oakley Jr, Oteil Burbruidgem  and currently Joey Williams of the Blind Boys of Alabama and Ray Ray Hollowman, guitar player for Eminem and Nee-O. Since their debut album in 2000 and hitting the never ending road, they have shared the stage with countless legends; Phil Lesh, Mavis Staples, Robert Plant, John Hiatt, the Allman Brothers, The Black Crowes, Buddy Guy, Snoop Dogg, […]