Cyril Neville

Cyril Neville is a percussionist and singer from the 13th Ward of New Orleans, the youngest of the Neville Brothers and a fixture of that city's music for fifty years — with the Meters in the seventies, the Neville Brothers through their long run, and since with Royal Southern Brotherhood and Galactic. In 2026 he took a Grateful Dead set out on the road, billed plainly as Cyril Neville Plays The Dead, opening at Brooklyn Bowl's Dead Bowl and working south through Virginia, the Carolinas and Mississippi to New Orleans. The rest of his calendar is his own: Meters anniversaries, a Dr. John tribute at Tipitina's, and club dates under his own name.