Irma Thomas is so familiar to fellow New Orleanians, her music is so much a part of the local lexicon, that she has achieved single-name status. Mention “Irma” to a New Orleanian and he or she will ...

Irma Thomas gets her documentary encore this weekend. WLAE-TV’s one-hour “Irma Thomas: The Soul Queen of New Orleans — A Concert Documentary Film” premieres Sunday at 7 and 9 p.m., and will be ...

Today, Jan. 17, New Orleans icons Galactic and Irma Thomas have finally detailed their long-awaited collaboration with the announcement of Audience With The Queen. Set to release on April 11 via ...

Legendary soul singer Irma Thomas is set to join the Rolling Stones on stage today at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, in what promises to be an electrifying collaboration. Thomas, often referred to as ...

Soulful Christmas music is an obsession for Bill Adler, so he interviewed the singer of one of his favorite songs "There isn't a Christmas that goes by that I don't sing 'Oh Holy Night,'" says Irma ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” Irma Thomas, confirmed to Fox 8 that she will make a special guest appearance during the Rolling Stones’ set on Thursday at the 2024 New Orleans ...

Families will be gathering this weekend to celebrate mothers, grandmothers or great-grandmothers — or in the case of beloved New Orleans R&B singer Irma Thomas, all three. With seven children, 15 ...

Sixty-three years ago, Irma Thomas borrowed the saucy song “Hip Shakin’ Mama” from Patsy Vidalia, the drag emcee at the Dew Drop Inn. On Friday, Thomas brought it back. The Soul Queen of New Orleans ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans area is celebrating the life of legendary morning news anchor Eric Paulsen. Eric died in the early hours of saturday morning with his beautiful wife Bethany at his ...

Now 84, she’s on her third marriage, which has lasted half a century, and nearly all her children are drawing Social Security. So what she’s doing now? She’s making a comeback with her first album in ...

Beginning in February 2022 and running throughout the spring, PBS stations across the country will broadcast Irma: My Life in Music, a new documentary about the life and career of Grammy Award-winning ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a rock and roll reunion, 60 years in the making. The Rolling Stones and Irma Thomas -- two acts that redefined popular music in the 1960s are set to perform together at Jazz Fest on ...