B R E A K T H R U M E D I A D I G I T A L M A G A Z I N E
November/December 2023
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A B O U T U S
The Musical Journey of
“Genius Grant”
Recipient Courtney Bryan
TELLing IT LIKE IT IS. . . and WAS!
Aaron Neville
“tells” all in a new book
By Anita Oubre
Advertisers
By Dean M. Shapiro
Gralen Bryant Banks
Takes “The Front Porch”
to the Airwaves
By Dean M. Shapiro
In the year 2000, Aaron Neville was co-featured in a book titled “The Brothers Neville,” in which each of the four of them told their stories in short, individual snippets. When Aaron was interviewed for a JazzFest cover story in 2019, the interviewer asked him some questions related to incidents Aaron recounted there and he replied, “I didn’t tell everything in that book so I need to write another one.” Now he HAS!
When Courtney Bryan, a New Orleans-born and raised classical music composer, was notified in September that she was being awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship grant, no one could have been more surprised than her. “I didn’t even know I was being nominated for this,” she said in a recent interview with Breakthru Media magazine Courtney was one of only 20 of the most recent grantees nationwide and one of two from New Orleans.
Gralen Bryant Banks is a New Orleans born and-raised actor and radio personality with such an intense love and respect for the city he grew up in that he celebrates it daily. He hosts “The Front Porch,” a radio show on the city’s only Black-owned radio station WBOK. Gralen refers to New Orleans in the feminine. “I am her son, and I am paying homage to her. Even though she has all of these scars and blemishes, she is beautiful
and deserves to be showcased and celebrated,” said Gralen.
