. Whatever the particulars of any all-encompassing multi-day music festival you’ve been to — this one takes place in New Orleans. When the festival music is over each night, instead of driving into a traffic jam or walking to a campground or checking into some generic hotel, you’re living in history and set loose in […]
Entries from May 2012
New Orleans Jazz Fest for someone who hasn’t been
May 9th, 2012 · 21 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Acts I Caught at Jazz Fest
May 9th, 2012 · 14 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
Here’s the artists / bands / ensembles I caught at New Orleans Jazz Fest over the last week . . . Thursday, April 26th, 2012 (1) — the Honey Island Swamp trio – at the Ogden Museum of Art Friday at Jazz Fest (11) — The Classic New Orleans Revue – with “Carnival Time” Johnson […]
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The Jumping out of a Car While Being Robbed, Kidnapped or Killed Story
May 8th, 2012 · 12 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
It’s 4AM on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans — on a dosey-doe night of subterranean hideaways and pirate characters right outta “Treasure Island” and hanging in the Blue Nile next to Will Blades the young Hammond B3 master as he works the keys and valves and peddles to Karl Denson on sax and Stanton […]
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