MAYOR CANTRELL ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF ART NEVILLE

07/22/2019

Mayor LaToya Cantrell today issued the following statement on Art Neville, who died Monday at the age of 81:

"New Orleans has lost another legend. Art Neville was a founding father of New Orleans funk, and so much more. We are poorer for his passing, and richer for having known him,” said Mayor Cantrell. "Generations of New Orleanians grew up on the sounds that Art Neville laid down over the decades. Art’s musical spirit lives on in his immediate and extended family: including his brothers, his son and his nephew. We know he’s up there now with his brother, Charles, creating a new kind of soul. May he rest in God’s perfect peace."