New Orleans Public Library's Crescent City Sounds
If you are a music fanatic who can not get enough of the local sounds of New Orleans, you may have the opportunity to showcase your local favorites as a curator for the New Orleans Public Library's Crescent City Sounds.
About Crescent City Sounds
Founded by the New Orleans Public Library in 2022, Crescent City Sounds is a music platform built exclusively for New Orleans musical artists. The catalog hosts 225 albums from more than 200 bands.
The platform aims to help up-and-coming artists gain a following and preserve the New Orleans music scene for years to come.
"We're asking the public to self-identify as a candidate due to the wide array of voices, backgrounds, and identities that populate the local music scene," Crescent City Sounds leader Joshua Smith said in a press release. "You may love everything about New Orleans music, or you may be deeply embedded in a specific corner of the scene most people don't even think about, or land somewhere in between. Whatever makes you special makes New Orleans special, and that is what we are trying to capture through this project."
Being a Crescent City Sounds Curator
As a Crescent City Sounds Curator, you will work with Smith to add albums and artists to the platform. Each artist chosen will receive a $300 honorarium to help them grow.
Curators become part of a list of some of New Orleans' most influential music leaders, including rapper Alfred Banks, music journalist Alison Fensterstock, and manager of Tank and the Bangas Tavia Osbey.
"Curating for Crescent City Sounds hipped me to lots of new music, put me in touch with other curators who also care deeply about the wellbeing of the city's music and musicians," former curator Kyle Decoste said in a press release. "And allowed me to contribute to a free public resource for music-lovers everywhere."
Music submissions will be accepted from September 4 to October 2, and the selected music will be released in December. Curator applications are open through August 17 at crescentcitysounds.org.
