OffBeat closed our Frenchmen Street office in November 2020, because the COVID-19 virus shut the city down completely, impacting musicians, music venues, festivals, bars and restaurants with music, as well as music and culture businesses. COVID even cancelled the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival temporarily.

For some time now, we have been trying to sell OffBeat to an entity or a person who was interested in purchasing our assets (brands, website, social media platforms, Weekly Beat newsletter, 37 years of editorial content, videos and photography, mailing lists) to continue our mission of preserving, promoting and serving the New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture communities. Both the business and the archives of OffBeat have been aprraised and valued by a third-party appraiser.

Even dIgital assets require revenue to keep them alive (web hosting, web updates, newsletter design and mailing, digital storage, writing, photography, social media, etc.). We no longer print monthly. We have only printed the annual "Jazz Fest Bible™." The last print edition was the 2025 Jazz Fest Bible,™ enabled us to pay off an SBA loan we obtained from the federal government in the wake of COVID, as well as a line of credit that had enabled us to continue very basic operations. Both myself and Joseph Irrera (my husband and partner in OffBeat) have voluntarily not taken a salary for well over seven years (we survive on Social Security) to help keep OffBeat alive, even in its digital format. So if you have the capacity and vision to take over and to expand the mission of OffBeat, please do let us know .

OffBeat Magazine has been the champion of music, musicians, music businesses and culture in New Orleans and throughout the world for the past 37 years. Through its print magazine, web site, weekly newsletter, social media, Best of The Beat Awards, guides to local festivals, the Louisiana Music Directory and Jazz Fest Bible™, we've endeavored to preserve and grow the music "ecosystem" and create appreciation for our great music worldwide. 

OffBeat is extremely grateful to our contributors (writers, photographers and videographers) and to our fans around the world who have subscribed to the magazine. We have never been supported by "member donations" or owners (such as the relationship beween the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the fine radio station WWOZ) and we need your help to keep music journalism and music and music business advocacy alive. 

Do you think OffBeat is an important contributor to preserve and promote New Orleans and Louisiana music and musicians?

If you do, your donation will help us to keep OffBeat up and running to keep our music coverage and advocacy alive and strong.