Jordan Hirsch is a writer, editor, and researcher with a specialty in the music and cultural history of his native New Orleans.

He is the editor of ACloserWalkNola.com, the award-winning interactive map of New Orleans music history.

His writing has appeared in Slate, Bitter Southerner, The Lens, and ANTIGRAVITY, among other outlets, and he was a staff writer for the HBO series Treme.

He has contributed research to the forthcoming Louisiana Music Trail, the New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission, and a series of groundbreaking, widely-cited reports on New Orleans’ music community.

For his work as the founding director of Sweet Home New Orleans, a nonprofit that served the city’s music community in the years after Hurricane Katrina, Spin Magazine named him a Local Hero, the Jazz Journalists Association named him a Jazz Hero, and the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame honored him with a Service Award.

Since 2006 he has also worked through the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation to document the lives and promote the careers of the unsung heroes of American music.

You should holler at him about how you can work together. He can also help you hire New Orleans artists.