New Orleans musician Jon Cleary is set to perform live at Chickie Wah Wah on Wednesday, May 17, at 8 p.m. The tickets for the show are priced at $20 in advance and $27 on the day of the show. Cleary’s ...

New Orleans-based pianist extraordinaire, the Grammy-winning Jon Cleary, will devote the earnings from his May 5 “Quarantini Happy Hour” virtual gig to OffBeat. “The New Orleans music world is ...

Imagine the joy of discovering a new album from Jon Cleary recorded in 2020, featuring Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton together and occasionally accompanied by James Rivers on sax. Part of the ...

Imagine the joy of discovering a new album from Jon Cleary recorded in 2020, featuring Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton together and occasionally accompanied by James Rivers on sax. Part of the ...

Last night, Mike Gordon took the Crescent City by storm with his long-awaited one-night-only performance at the Joy Theater. Gordon’s special show, which landed in the second weekend of New Orleans ...

Jon Cleary’s musical heart was already in New Orleans while he was growing up in the English town of Cranbrook, Kent (population: 6,000), where he happily attended nearby shows by The Clash, The ...

Jon Cleary remembers learning to play "Tipitina" on an old upright piano in his grandmother's home in the village of Cranbrook in Kent, England. He was 11. The song's three chords are filled with ...

When Jon Cleary was 18 years old, he made his first trip to the city from which his favorite music came. Traveling from the small town of Cranbrook in Kent, England, Cleary suddenly found himself ...

New Orleans is the place where Jon Cleary thinks he should have come from. “I came hardwired for New Orleans funk because that was the music I really dug,” the British-born singer, songwriter, pianist ...

New Orleans pianist/singer Jon Cleary takes big chances with his music and life. Consider the English-born musician flew to New Orleans at 17 with $100 and a matchbook cover in his pocket. He had no ...