Satchmo.com - Established 1995

About Satchmo.com:

Satchmo.com (a.k.a. Louisiana Music Archive & Artist Directory, a.k.a. Crescent City Connection) is a personally run web site established in 1995 as a clearinghouse for news, links and general info related to New Orleans and Louisiana music. Prior to registering the domain in October 1995, the site was known as New Orleans, Louisiana - A Virtual Library, and was hosted on one of the free hosting services popular at that time (Geopages).

The site grew by leaps and bounds over the years, but things began to wind down in the early 2000's. I was working full time (remotely) for MTV Networks from 2000-2008. Things were also disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. I evacuated to Austin, TX and did not return to NOLA until 2011. I continued to update the New Orleans Concert Line listings page until April, 2024.

Update September 2025: I have started updating old Satchmo.com pages, and I have added a few new pages too. See the Satchmo.com Site Index for the details. I still post NOLA music news and concert announcements on the Bluesky social media platform.

Other sites I created over the years include:

  • ikoiko.com - was a short-lived webzine founded in 1997 by Greg Hardison and Maggie Mortensen. The site featured news and articles about the New Orleans music scene, written by people involved in the music scene. Contributors included John Sinclair, Tom McDermott, Jeff Hannusch, Mark McGrain, Michael P. Smith, and DJ Nita K (Nita Ketner)

  • RockOnTV (Ultimate Guide to Music on Television): A guide to music artists appearing on TV. Listings included daytime & late night talk show appearances, concert specials, entertainment award shows, cameo appearances in movies and tv series, etc. The site was eventually acquired by MTV Networks. It was originally hosted on Satchmo.com, and later under it's own domain name. It was hosted on VH1.com from 2000-2008.

    Some accolades for RockOnTV: Spider's Pick Of The Day (01/12/96); nominated for America Online's 1996 Online Music Awards (in the Best Cybersite category); featured in Radio One's 'The Daily Report', USA Today's Cybersites column, Scene magazine & Music Connection magazine; picked as a GNN Select/Web Crawler Select web site; rated three stars by Magellan and a 'Top 5% of the Web' site by PointCom, picked as a 'Killer Site 96', featured web site in AOL's Music Space, and selected as a USA Today Hot Site.

    See a sample page from the early days of the site. Here's what it looked like hosted on VH1.com. See RockOnTV mentions in national newspapers.

  • Misc Web Sites - I set up free web sites for several bands / music artists in the mid-late 90s (some at satchmo.com, others at ikoiko.com). These included Rebirth Brass Band, Invisible Cowboy, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Mem Shannon, Marvin Williams, John Sinclair, The Soul Rebels, Plunge, Beggarman Thief, The Bingemen, John Carey, Andi Hoffmann & B Goes, Blackwater Bog, Charlie Miller, Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe, and Leroy Jones. Other web pages included Vic's Kangaroo Cafe, Donna's Bar & Grill, the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference, the first Satchmo Summerfest, and the Louis Armstrong Centennial Conference.

  • In the midst of all of this, I also worked for a brief period in the late 1990s as New Media Consultant for OffBeat Magazine.

    Into a New Decade, Subscribers Win, Time Out & Loyola's Music Symposium
    OffBeat Magazine, September 1, 1998 by: Jan Ramsey

    Look for some changes in the next few months to OffBeat's award-winning website (www.offbeat.com). Our new New Media Consultant is Greg Hardison, developer of many locally popular music sites (including www.satchmo.com) and national music sites as well. Greg brings a broad perspective and new ideas to OffBeat and we welcome him aboard. Naturally, if any readers have suggestions on what they’d like to see on the site, we welcome them. Contact us with your suggestions.

You can still find Satchmo.com at:

  • Satchmo Dot Com (Bluesky) - Info related to New Orleans and Louisiana music. e.g. news, the latest video & music releases, tour announcements, etc. You should check out Bluesky, a nice alternative to Facebook and Meta.

  • New Orleans Concert Line (Bluesky) - New Orleans live music news, concert & festival announcements, and news on theater, sports, comedy, and family events.

  • Satchmo.com Facebook Profile - See my old posts

  • New Orleans Concert Line on Facebook - See my old posts

  • Instagram - a bunch of miscellaneous pics.

  • Satchmo.com YouTube Channel - a few videos that I've captured, along with some interesting playlists I created, plus personal favorites that others have posted.

  • Satchmo.com archived web pages - I'll gradually restore some of the old info from the past.

Thanks to everyone who has followed & supported satchmo.com during it's 30 year run. It's been real!

Greg Hardison
Owner & Editor, Satchmo.com

Props for Satchmo.com

Editorial staff of Gambit Weekly names Satchmo.com as their pick for "Best Local Web Site" in their 1999 "Best of New Orleans" readers poll (08/31/99 issue).

New Orleans and Louisiana music fans voted Satchmo.com as Runner Up in the Best Music Website category of the Fourth Annual OffBeat "Best of the Beat" Music Business Awards. (January, 1999)

"If you're trying to track down a band on the web, try the musician's index at the Louisiana Music Archive and Artists Directory. If the band you're looking for is on the web, chances are you'll find a link to it here, along with music news and announcements." -- Charlyn Keating; WWL Eyewitness Morning News

"Once again, Greg Hardison's site at Satchmo.com takes top spot as the best place to track down information on local bands and musicians on the Internet" -- Alex Oliver, Offbeat Magazine - Second Annual Best of the Web

"Crescent City music and its artists shine brightly here at this spectacularly spicy spot" -- Infoseek Select

"... particularly impressive, and a resource anyone looking for information on a Louisiana band or musician should check first, even before the larger search engines and Internet-wide indices" -- Offbeat Magazine -- Best of the Internet, 1996 (January, 1997)

"Satchmo.com ... no electronic Louisiana trip is complete without a visit to this entrepreneurial web address, which contains daily New Orleans music history vignettes, breaking concert information, links to wire stories and a comprehensive, weekly guide to Louisiana artists appearing on television..." -- Billboard Magazine -- (April 15, 2000)

Satchmo.com is an outstanding fan portal for New Orleans music ... the site is slightly inelegant but packed with information -- New Orleans Beat Street Magazine (February, 2003)

Satchmo.com named "Best Music Web Site" at OffBeat Magazine's 2002 "Best of the Beat" Music Business Awards. (February, 2003)

Satchmo.com has been mentioned in several books and national newspapers.

New Orleans Virtual Library (Satchmo.com precursor)

The New Orleans Virtual Library was established in June of 1995 as a guide to the city and state, targeted at both visitors and residents alike. The Virtual Library was featured in the book World Wide Web Top 1,000 (New Riders, 1996); USA Today Weekend edition; The Scout Report; and Cybertown's Honor Roll; rated four stars by the iGuide ('this page is a breath of fresh air... it's like getting the local New Orleans paper delivered electronically'); three stars by Magellan; and selected as a PointCom 'Top 5% of the Web' site. It was described as "it's the next best thing to being here!"

Satchmo.com Site Index

Last Updated: 09/02/2025