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Originally from Virginia, Alexandra Scott and her dog Jackson have dipped in and out of New Orleans since 2000. In 2008 Alexandra claimed the city as home for herself, Jackson, and what she calls her dream a billy music. In this edition of Milo's Music Parlor Alexandra talks about her pioneering role in the 21stSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may know her as the head rose of Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, one of New Orleans' pre eminent interpreters and performers of traditional New Orleans jazz music. As if that wasn't enough, Aurora performs in at least three other bands, and a score of other musical projects, often including international musicians from as far flung places as Pakistan and India. She's also written and directed three theatre pieces, and has studied with composers from Oberlin to Paris. Oh, and don't forget theSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Even in a town like New Orleans where life is often lived in public on the street and stoop, singer songwriter Kelcy Mae's heart is on her sleeve. And in her adopted city. At prestigious festivals across the country and in more intimate gigs at home, Kelcy's lyrics reveal her background as a published poet as Kelcy Wilburn and her melodies come from a blend of genetic Americana and church growing up in rural Shreveport Louisiana singing hymns. A long way from church, in this edition of Milo's Music Parlor, Kelcy tells Kim about the drama that seems to open up before her and naturally cry out for her pen and voice like moving to New Orleans, falling in love and finding herself living on the same block as a murder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you re looking for that high lonesome sound, you can look no higher than the hills of Alaska, the home of Todd Grebe and Cold Country. After a healthy musical career with the national touring, Nashville based, Alaskan act Bearfoot, band members Angela Oudean and Todd Grebe returned home to Alaska to make more music and a baby in their country music project, Todd Grebe and Cold Country. In this episode of Milo s Music Parlor we catch them on a sojourn to the Big Easy and not even a hurricane could stop them from their trip here. Listen to them chat about everything from writing songs to what they love about New Orleans brassbands.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For New Jersey native Alex McMurray, it was NOT love at first sight when he moved to New Orleans 28 years ago. But like many of us, he learned to love it, and found himself returning from New York after Katrina, even AFTER realizing "You have to be crazy to live in this Town", an idea that became the title of one of his post Katrina songs. His music can be described as lyrical and imaginative what you might hear if Elvis Costello and Randy Newman had a child together, but with distinct New Orleans flair and songwriting edge of his very own. An amazing multi tasker, Alex shares stories of his college days at Tulane, to singing sea chanties in Tokyo s Disneyland dressed up like Captain Crunch.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You don't have to go to far out of New Orleans city limits to run into small town Louisiana and the music that it incubates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.