Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins was thrilled to welcome his first baby with girlfriend Harmonese Pleasant when she was shot outside ...

No one represents New Orleans culture quite like Kermit Ruffins. For decades, the trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader has kept the sound of the city moving forward, becoming one of the most ...

New Orleans, like most of the rest of the country, enjoys Santa Claus as a favorite icon of the Christmas season. However, the Crescent City, being its usual quirky self, also favors its own Yuletide ...

Comfortably nestled in the Mid-City District of New Orleans, the historic Tremé neighborhood is one of America’s loudest. Jazz music thrives in this 0.69-square-mile patch of NOLA land, especially at ...

Though major fall music festivals in New Orleans have been postponed until 2022, several local musicians are hosting events on a smaller but no less festive scale. Trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins ...

Kermit Ruffins posted on social media that he's recording a video for a new Saints song at his Mother In Law Lounge, 1500 N. Claiborne Ave. in Treme at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 23. You can be in it.

Ruffins is serving as a consultant on the show and is also one of its main characters, basically playing himself. Ruffins is playing a bandleader named Kermit who is dealing with the disastrous ...

Catch Kermit at the 2009 NOLA Heritage & Jazz Festival and Lincoln Center's Mid Summer Night Swing! Kermit is currently acting in and consulting for new HBO pilot Treme, created by David Simon (The ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Earlier this year, Harmonese Pleasant, the then-pregnant girlfriend of New Orleans musician and restauranteur Kermit Ruffins, was shot in the stomach while taking a walk outside ...

New Orleans musician Kermit Ruffins described in a Facebook post the moments before and after his pregnant girlfriend was shot last week. Ruffins said he was clearing up social media rumors regarding ...

Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins has retired from his longtime Thursday night residency at Vaughan's. He concluded his 20-plus years at Vaughan's, one of the best-known gigs in all of New Orleans music, with ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans musician Kermit Ruffins is attempting to clear up confusion surrounding a shooting that wounded his girlfriend and newborn baby. In an Instagram post Monday morning, ...