NICKEL-A-DANCE: Kevin Louis & His Top Dollar Jazz Band

Trumpeter Kevin Louis is a 1995 graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1999), a Masters of Arts from the Aaron Copeland’s School of Music at Queens College (2001), and has toured at least 30 countries as a performer, clinician and private instructor over his 25 year career. Louis is a resident artist with Preservation Hall Jazz, and has performed with dozens of jazz and pop music greats including Jimmy Heath, Gary Bartz, Henry Butler, the Duke Ellington Orchestra and more. This evening, he presents his own Top Dollar Jazz Band! 

NICKEL-A-DANCE is a free series of Sunday afternoon traditional jazz concerts started in 1994 that now take place each spring and fall season, and is a hit with children, families, seniors, and the general dancing public that don’t tend to go to night clubs.  It attracts a diverse group of fans that meet on Frenchmen Street to celebrate jazz as America’s original dance music while listening to the best of today’s classic jazz bands.