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On his seventeenth album, singer-songwriter Anders Osborne describes 2024’s Picasso’s Villa, “a condensed story about living in America between 2018-2021. The fears, confusion, deep joy and peace achieved through true friendship, family, community, hours of meditation and detachment from ego.” 

Further, Osborne has been in a twelve-step program for fifteen years. He explains, “The biggest change in getting sober was the focus on meditation and prayer, just looking more inward. When I’m sleeping in 140 different beds a year, eating unhealthy foods, meditation is what keeps me centered. Holding myself in that sacred space for a while is what makes it possible for me to do all this.”

Anders Osborne

Dakota

Anders Osborne's NOLA Birthday Bash is one of the most cherished traditions of Jazz Fest season. This year, the show will open with the quintessential New Orleans institution Rebirth Brass Band. Dave Malone of The Radiators, Jackie Greene, Lindsay Lou, and a special surprise guest are confirmed to sit in, with more special guests on the way. Every year, the show delivers an unforgettable mix of announced and unannounced sit-ins, and it continues to sell out in advance thanks to the unmistakable energy and magic only New Orleans can create.

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Anders Osborne’s NOLA Birthday Bash

The Civic Theatre

Anders Osborne was born in 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden and at a young age knew that he spoke the language of music and poetry well. He fell in love with everything from Vivaldi, Chopin and Black Sabbath to Robert Johnson, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Cat Steven’s to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. “Blues connected everything together for me," Osborne recalls. "The early rock, the R&B, the jazz, the singer-songwriters. Blues was like a thread running through everything." He began playing in open D tuning which gives his fretwork a signature sound and feel. "I first heard Open D on Joni Mitchell's Blue, and my fingers just fit the tuning.” Osborne travelled around Europe in his late teens and in 1986, when he was nineteen years old, he visited New Orleans. He fell in love with the city, and never left.

Manship Theatre

Anders Osborne + Ghalia Volt

Tipitina's

It’s hard to believe that it's been 7 years since Devon Allman put together a show at the Fillmore in San Francisco to celebrate the life of his father Gregg Allman. What started as one night of the Devon Allman Project featuring Duane Betts along with a bunch of guest artists has turned into a one-night festival visiting 18-20 cities a year.

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Jun 29, 2026

Anders Osborne · Dakota

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Anders Osborne’s NOLA Birthday Bash · The Civic Theatre

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