Tuesday, April 30, 2013

More from Weekend One - Jazzfest 2013


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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Day Two - Down by the Fais Do Do

they thing about Cajun music is that it makes you want to dance
no matter if it is traditional or zydeco
if your feet doan move you dead cher
dead f'sure

it is no accident that Zydeco which grew our of african, carribean, and cajun music
is also a sly euphemism for interracial lovin'
and the bayou people, cajun or creole got dat joi de vivre
which means - they know how to have fun..

so com'on down da 'Cafalaya..drink a little whiskey... eat a little gumbo.. and DANCE ...



Jambalaya Cajun Band

 





 




Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole
 




 

 
 



the Creole Wild West Indians..
Mardi Gras Indians have been parading in New Orleans at least since the mid-19th century, possibly before. The tradition was said to have originated from an affinity between Africans and Indians as minorities within the dominant culture, and blacks’ circumventing some of the worst racial segregation; laws by representing themselves as Indians. There is also the story that the tradition began as an African American tribute to American Indians who helped runaway slaves
 


 




... feel the music running through me
makes me want to dance
Clap my hands and dance ...

Jerry Jeff Walker - Hill Country Rain

it ain't just about the music - it also about the food  
 


 

Native Americans


more food ..



From Austin TX and Lafayette LA - The Lost Bayou Ramblers

 


 
 

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Down by the Acura stage

even though I am on my 14th Jazz Fest
even though I am 66 years of age with a larger than average number
of miles on this rather worn carcass
 
my heart pounds
like a kid about to experience something new
as I turn on to Gentilly
 
I greet the parking lot guy (been parking here for years)
hand over thirty bucks and shoulder chair and cameras
for the three block walk to the gate
 
I am early because I know that the Acura stage
will get crowded as the young ones show up
for the latest teenage craze
I place my chair and then join friends down
by the barrier (as close as we can get)
and wait and after a little
 (that seems like a very long while)
the music starts with....

New Orleans own Suspects

 




 
 

 





Wanda Rouzan
 

 

 
 
 A signing singer
 
 
Jean Knight
 



 
 

 

 
 The Dixie Cups

 
 
Wayne Toups with Zy de Cajun
 

     
 
 
 
 
 

 



Friday, April 26, 2013

Jazz Fest TODAY!!!

tighten up the strings

 



 
resin up the bow .....




you can dance a little two step..
 




 
Down at the Fais Do Do......



 


 

 

 

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Jazz Fest is coming -

..and to whet all our appetites here is a taste from Jazz Fests of the recent past..
Johnny Sansone

Glen David Andrews and Amanda Shaw


we are Indians .. Indians..



Amanda Shaw
Anders Osborn

Arlo Guthrie


John Fohl


Johnny Sansome








and it ends after two long weekends in the hot sun or soaking rain - and you continue on with a head full of music and a heart full of laughter...


and after the sun sets.. it continues from the French Quater to Uptown to Mid City.. all through the night..
(Marcia Ball at the Ogden 2011)