arts, books and music
Nine New Orleans shops to participate in Record Store Day 2019
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By India Yarborough, iayarbor@my.loyno.edu
Loyola Student News Service
According to record-store owner Lee Rea, “If art imitates life, then the record shop should be an epicenter for local culture.”
Rea is co-owner, along with his mother and sister, of the mom-and-pop record shop Peaches Records on Magazine Street. Peaches, opened in 1975 by Rea’s father, is one of nine independently owned record stores in New Orleans participating in the 12th annual Record Store Day this Saturday. Record Store Day is an international celebration of independent record stores, according to Rick Johnson, one of three people who work full-time organizing the day’s festivities. “These are independent stores because that’s always been the focus of record store day – how do we keep the independent record store alive and thriving,” Johnson said. Record Store Day is held in mid-April each year.