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Swamp Pop
Swamp pop music combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music.
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Music Index
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Sweet Emma Barrett
Self-taught jazz pianist Sweet Emma Barrett was able to follow any piece of music after hearing it only once.
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Terence Blanchard
New Orleans–native Terence Blanchard is a multi-Grammy-winning, twice Oscar-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator.
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Terrance Simien
Terrance Simien is an accordionist, singer, Creole culture advocate, and two-time Grammy Award winner.
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The Meters
The Meters played a key role in defining the funk musical genre in the early 1970s.
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The Residents
The Residents are an anonymous experimental art collective encompassing a music group, art project, theater troupe, and social experiment that evades genre classification.
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Thomas Valentine
New Orleans traditional jazz musician Kid Thomas Valentine was one of the founders of Preservation Hall.
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Tim McGraw
Born in northeast Louisiana, country music star Tim McGraw has numerous hit songs and soaring sales figures.
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Tipitina's
Established as a neighborhood bar in 1977, Tiptina's has grown into an iconic New Orleans music venue with a recording studio, record label, and foundation supporting the local music community.
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Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Traditional New Orleans jazz is a musical genre with distinctive stylistic features that are tied to festival traditions within a discrete, regional culture.
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Treme Brass Band
The Treme Brass Band is widely known for maintaining the traditional New Orleans brass band style.
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Trombone Shorty
New Orleanian Trombone Shorty is a nationally acclaimed recording artist and performer.
