More from Weekend One - Jazzfest 2013

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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

 

 

 

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

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 



Jazz Fest TODAY!!!



tighten up the strings

 


 

resin up the bow .....







you can dance a little two step..

 





 

Down at the Fais Do Do......

 



 

 

 

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)