Bettye LaVette & Cyril Neville

Bettye LaVette was hailed by the New York Times as “one of the
great soul interpreters of her generation”. George Jones said
"Bettye is truly a singer's singer".

Her career began in 1962, at 16 years old, in Detroit, Michigan.
Her first single, My Man-He's A Lovin' Man, was on Atlantic
Records. Throughout the 60s and 70s, she recorded for several
major labels. She also appeared in the Broadway Musical
Bubbling Brown Sugar alongside Honi Coles and Cab Calloway.

The 2000's started what she calls her "Fifth Career". She received
the R&B Foundation's Pioneer Award, won several Blues Music
Awards, was inducted into The Blues Hall Of Fame, received the
Legacy Award from the Americana Music Association, and has
received 7 Grammy Nominations.

Her most recent release, LaVette!, consists of all songs written by
Randall Bramblett, whom she considers "the best writer I have
heard in the last 30 years". The album is on Jay-Vee Records,
which is co-owned by Steve Jordan and Meegan Voss.

According to Steve Jordan, who produced her last three albums:
“When Bettye gets a hold of a song, it becomes her song. It’s like
she wrote it. She’s a great messenger, a communicator, an
interpreter. Bettye LaVette is like a combination of Frank Sinatra,
Billie Holiday and Miles Davis."

Now, at 78 years old and in her 62nd year in show business, she
is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording
during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is still creating vital
recordings today.

She and her full band will be performing songs from her latest
albums and some older favorites as well.

CYRIL NEVILLE, the Uptown Ruler, brings a lifetime of dreams come true.  This two-time grammy winning icon is brilliant and beautiful on stage and in his recorded work.  In this new chapter of his creative life, Cyril levels up even more with new songs, a fresh perspective on his decares of performance worldwide and a determined eye on the future.  As Quint Davis, fonder and head of the new Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival watching Mr. Neville perform at the 2025 Jazz Fest Congo Square Stage said,” He’s still got it.” SEE EPK LINK – CLICK HERE Cyril Neville is one of the founding fathers of the New Orleans signature funky soul, rock jazz sound that has influenced countless artists and entertained millions of fans over his 5decade career.  Mr. Neville is a vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, painter, cultural icon and activist who richly deserves his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Born in 1948 in New Orleans, the youngest of the Neville Brothers was raised in a musical household, with his brothers Aaron, Art and Charles all making waves on the local musical scene.  Their uncle George Landry was Big Chief Jolly of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, and young Cyril cut his teeth singing and playing percussion with the group.  At 19, he joined his brother’s band, Art Neville and the Neville Sounds, and released his first single a year later. Art’s band soon merged into the seminal group, The Meters, with Cyril, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste.  Their early releases – the singles “Sissy Strut, “Look-A-Py-Py” and “Sophisticated Sissy,” as well as the Cabbage Alley and the Neville Brothers Fire on the Bayou have become classics, and their funky grooves built a foundation for a large swath of today’s American popular music.  The Meter’s reputation was cemented when the Rolling Stones offered them an opening spot on their 1975 world tour. Art and Cyril left The Meters in 1977, and with Aaron and Charles formed the Neville Brothers.  For 35 years the group rocked audiences from Tipitinas in New Orleans to Taipei playing venues all over the world with their imminently danceable funk rock.  Their recordings such as the Grammy-winning Yellow Moon and equally successful follow-up Brother’s Keeper have entered the canon of classic American Music.  The Neville Brothers have received four nominations to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and hopefully one day will receive their long overdue flowers there.