Tonight it’s on! Rain will be over by the time we fire up the dancefloor. Happy Halloween! 🪩 Tix available at the door.
DJ Soul Sister
@djsoulsister.bsky.social
Academic nonconformista DJ artist who lives a life of musicology, archives, vinyl crate digging, Black history, popular music studies, pop culture, P-Funk, DC go-go, disco, New Orleans, fun, and Virgo power. Music-obsessed Blerds unite. djsoulsister.com
Gratitude to author Seth Neblett, P-Funk vet Shirley Hayden, and everyone who attended our conversation on the oral history book Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic, published by @utexaspress.bsky.social. 📸 Photos: Fernando Lopez, 10-28-2026, Community Book Center, New Orleans.
More photos to come. Thanks to everyone for coming out to our Mothership Comnected book talk with author Seth Neblett and Parliament-Funkadelic alumnus Shirley Hayden. Copies of the book sold out at the event, but you can still contact Community Book Center if you’d like to order a copy! 📖🛸
The finale of Mothership Month is Friday! 🗓️ Friday, October 30 🎶Mothership Selection: Uncut P-Funk🛸 🕗 8:00-11:00pm 📍Junebug, 744 Camp St., New Orleans 🎁 FREE 💡Seating reservations through OpenTable See you at the gorgeous Junebug for my all–P-Funk vinyl DJ set featuring deep cuts & classics.
Tonight in New Orleans! 🛸 ‘Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic’ book talk w/author Seth Neblett + P-Funk/Parlet vet Shirley Hayden. I’ll moderate the conversation. 📍 Community Book Center 🕕 6–7 PM 🎟️ FREE Book signing and giveaways too! djsoulsister.com/mothershipmonth
Happy Mothership landing 50th anniversary day today!!!! 🛸 🛸 🛸 Enjoy George Clinton & P-Funk music all day! 🎥 Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership landing, The Summit, Houston, TX, October 31, 1976, just a few days after the debut Mothership landing at Municipal Auditorum, New Orleans, Oct. 27, 1976.
What’s happening this week, the final week of Mothership Month New Orleans 🛸🗓️
You gotta do it. Do it early. Do it on Election Day on November 3. We have to do it. 🔵💥🗳️
Thanks to everyone who came to my 80s party last Saturday at Tipitina’s. I think we should do this again!!
🛸 MOTHERSHIP CONNECTED: THE WOMEN OF PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC 📍Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Rd, New Orleans 📅 Wed, Oct 28 🕕 6-7p Join author Seth Neblett & Parliament-Funkadelic vet and former Parlet member Shirley Hayden for a conversation + book signing. Info: djsoulsister.com/mothershipmonth
80s core memories unlocked. MY 80s party is tonight at Tipitina’s. It’s different from other 80s parties!
Yesterday I had the joy of sitting down with two legends, George Porter Jr. and Booker T. Jones, for separate conversations on the Oral History Stage at the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival. Grateful to them for their stories. Both interviews were recorded for the Jazz & Heritage Archive.
Join me for interviews w/2 legends at the @jazzandheritage Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest! Sun., Oct. 11 at the Oral History Stage (inside Gallier Hall) - FREE! 2–2:30: George Porter Jr, bassist, founding member of The Meters 3:30–4: Booker T. Jones, Stax legend + Booker T. & the M.G.’s founder
Thanks to everyone who came out to this past Sunday’s “Schooled with Soul Sister,” my 2nd Mothership Month event, and for spending your evening with me doing something I love to be a part of - lifelong learning.🛸 See you at the next MM events this month: djsoulsister.com/mothershipmonth 🎥🩶:Tami F
Today! Sun., Oct 4, at Gasa Gasa, New Orleans, 6–7:30 p.m., I’ll give a talk about the significance of P-Funk’s Mothership landing & the band’s history. Everyone has a chance to win a copy of George Clinton’s autobiography. Doors 5:30. Rain’ll be gone by then! RSVP: www.ticketweb.com/event/school...
Thanks to everyone who kicked off Mothership Month in New Orleans at today’s P-Funk Ephemera event. It was a big success. More photos to come. My sincere thanks also to Peaches Records and to the Greater New Orleans Archivists volunteers. See ya at the next event: djsoulsister.com/mothershipmonth.
We’ll be here today. Pull up! We’re not scared of a little rain sprinkle. 😁🌂🛸
I have developed an unhealthy habit of binging on judge shows.
Happy Mothership Month! October is here! Kicking off this weekend. More info at djsoulsister.com/mothershipmo....
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
Each semester, I invite a music artist to speak w/my History of Urban Music students at Loyola University N.O. Tonight, we welcomed Frank Richard of Chocolate Milk, the New Orleans-based, internationally known funk and R&B band of the 1970s and ’80s. Grateful for the stories and knowledge he shared!
Unlike my iPhone, I could RELY on this alarm going off
I was part of that 93.1%. Who else was? Anyone still use one of these bad boys?
People often ask if they can sit in on one of my university classes. Those aren’t open to the public…but this is! 😁 🛸 SCHOOLED WITH SOUL SISTER Sun. Oct. 4 | 6–7:30pm Gasa Gasa, NOLA 🎟️ FREE RSVP: www.ticketweb.com/event/school... 📸 Kiddo, feat. P-Funk’s Donnie Sterling and Michael Hampton, 1983
You're invited! Free and open to the public. I'm grateful to Robin Barnes for inviting me to contribute to this panel discussion. Wed., Sep. 30 Doors: 5:30 | Panel: 6–8pm George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center 1225 N. Rampart St, New Orleans
🛸 Kick off Mothership Month! Sat, Oct 3, 1–3pm P-Funk Ephemera: From the Mothership and Beyond Peaches Records, New Orleans See rare 70s-80s P-Funk ephemera from my personal archive. Plus giveaways! Volunteers from Greater New Orleans Archivists will be on hand. djsoulsister.com/mothershipmo...
The late great JIM HENSON — born 90yrs ago today— and ‘Dr. Teeth’ on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1975.
A word about Mothership Month and this Thursday’s big The Rumble P-Funk-powered show at Tipitina’s. 🤘🏾🎶
I’ve been with @wwozneworleans.bsky.social since 1994, 32 years volunteering, cause I love sharing music. 🎶 With federal funding gone, WWOZ has a $400K annual gap to fill. If you also love community radio, please become a member during our Fall Pledge Drive (and my show tonight 8-10p CT): WWOZ.org
🛸✨ GET READY FOR MOTHERSHIP MONTH! October marks the 50th anniversary of Parliament-Funkadelic’s first-ever Mothership landing, which happened here in New Orleans on Oct. 27, 1976, at the Municipal Auditorium. Let’s celebrate! 🤘🏾 Expanded listings: djsoulsister.com/mothershipmo... 🔗