New research from the British Academy of Sound Therapy proves music heals and it doesn't take long to experience therapeutic effects. The study caught the eye of Dr. Penny Roberts, a professor of music therapy at Loyola University. We catch up with her by phone.

Conversation with Jessie Haynes, managing director of The Helis Foundation. You can find more info online at thehelisfoundation.org

This week on Inside the Arts, India Fest is back. We’ll get a sneak peek at the 2020 festivities featuring Indian arts, culture and cuisine at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Event note: India Fest rescheduled for Saturday, June 6. In the interest of public safety due to concerns over coronavirus (COVID-19), NOMA has rescheduled India Fest to Saturday, June 6. Then, acclaimed tenor and native son, Bryan Hymel returns with Opus Opera and Delta Festival Ballet in a concert performance celebrating

This week on Inside the Arts, the Louis Moreau Institute's 2020 Festival premieres Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' monodrama, Eight Songs for a Mad King and other works by contemporary masters and emerging composers. Artistic director Morris Rosenzweig and bass baritone Jonathan Z. Harris join us for a chat. And, Le Petit Theatre continues its season with August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Piano Lesson. Veteran actors Lance Nichols and Zeb Hollins III are here. Inside the Arts, Tuesdays

This week on Inside the Arts, Carnival revelry kicks into high gear as Mardi Gras is here! We’ll explore adventures along the parade route. Food writer Ian McNulty looks at a new variety of king cakes. Reporter Betsy Shepherd has an eye on Fat Tuesday’s environmental impact. And, WYES TV host Peggy Scott Laborde joins us with a preview of the LIVE broadcast of the Rex Ball and the Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus. Airs Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., and Thursdays at 8:45 a

This week on Inside the Arts, the 23rd New Orleans French Film Festival gets underway right after Mardi Gras. It’s one of the longest-running foreign language festivals in the country. We talk with the festival’s artistic director emeritus John Desplas. And, the Contemporary Arts Center continues its run of a series of exhibits highlighting women artists, headlined by internationally acclaimed Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas. We caught up with Thomas who will join us in our studio. Airs

This week on Inside the Arts, Big Freedia puts bounce in New Orleans Airlift's 4th Annual Mardi Gras Ball, ushering in the Spring performance season in the Music Box Village. Co-founders Jay Pennington and Delaney Martin will join us in our studio with details on upcoming events. And, a Valentine's treat from Nell Nolan and Dennis Woltering. The actress and society columnist will join the veteran newsman for a stage performance of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. Dennis Woltering joins us for a chat.

This week on Inside the Arts, mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther is The Maid of Orléans in Tchaikovsky's Joan of Arc. This production by the New Orleans Opera Association marks the American premiere of the English translation of this work. Hilary Ginther joins us with Maestro Robert Lyall. Then, Musaica Chamber Ensemble continues its 14th season, The Architecture of Music with Keyboard Cornerstones of Bach and Fauré. Among the works featured are Bach's Goldberg Variations for string trio and Fauré's

This week on Inside the Arts, the Marigny Opera Ballet continues its 6th season with legendary dancer/choreographer, Paul Taylor's 1962 masterpiece, Aureole. Plus, a world premiere by Gretchen Erickson: Dialogues in G Major. Artistic director Dave Hurlbert joins us for a chat. And, race and class divisions are exposed in The Uninvited. This original, immersive theatre experience, presented by Goat in the Road Productions, Hermann-Grima and Gallier Historic Houses, is based on historic events in

This week on Inside the Arts, the Hancock-Whitney Broadway in New Orleans series continues its season as the legendary musical, MISS SAIGON, opens at the Saenger. The new national tour of Cameron Mackintosh's revival of Boublil and Schönberg's epic love story, is set during the Vietnam War, and features Emily Bautista starring in the role of "Kim". We catch up with her by phone. Then, Southern Rep Theatre, opens a production of Ntozake (N TOE ZAH KAY) Shange's (SHAN GAY) Mother Courage and Her